Yeah, what I was thinking was that he could route the contact through the 1/4" jack since he said it's one like you would use for a footswitch. I don't think they're all MIDI(i.e. surely some that ope ...
A friend of mine is doing his student teaching this semester, and the school he's at is planning a video-game themed indoor drumline show. What he's wanting to do is use a DDR pad(or several of them) ...