Thank your for your reply. Generally speaking i am not aware for the cost of the stick itself. My problem is handling thousand midi files divided by genre or artist in one directory. Impossible. Nor i can have sticks for every artist, of course. Only hope is casio fixes this absurdity with the next firmware upgrade but i think this will not happen.
Seems the keyboard has no "half pedal" functions, means the pedal is just a switch, on-off. No way of having a graduated response of the keyboard unless you buy its original support, which include a special connection for the pedal.