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Re: [disklavier] Pedal, tracks, channels, velocity, Cakewalk
2004-01-04 by PianoBench@aol.com
In a message dated 1/4/04 2:07:16 AM, Walt writes in his text file attachment:
< With Cakewalk, reducing all of the velocities by 40 might take some that were under 40 to start with too low. Well, if you close the file and reopen it again and look at the velocities in event view, you will see all the velocities are down by 40 except that none will go below 1.>>
As an alternative to reducing all of the velocities by a certain number, many sequencers have a global editing feature that lets you scale all of the velocities.
Let's say that your file ranges from 40 to 120 and you want to get the top velocities down to 80. If you subtract 40, you end up with a range from 1 to 80. Since your upright Disklavier will play back all low velocities as though they were at about 35, the notes that were in the range of 40-75 and which are now in the range of 1 to 35 and will sound about the same.
If, on the other hand, you scale all velocities by 67%, you will have a range that goes from 27 to 80 and the soft notes will have more dynamic variety.
Regards,
PianoBench