Disklavier

Bob,

I don't have Cakewalk Pro. I only have Cakewalk Home Studio. The documentation is a little light and I could not find the kind of function we are discussing in Help. However, your excellent suggestions lead me to discovery of |Edit|Midi Effects|Cakewalk FX|MusicLab VeloMaster Lite and |Edit|Midi Effects|Cakewalk FX|Velocity...|Scale Velocities to ... % of their current value and Limit range from ... to ... This looks like the place to play with velocities by % and limits as we have been discussing! Thanks!
-Walt
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Robert Welcyng <rwelcyng@...> wrote:

Suppose you wish to prepare one of Katsuhiro Oguri's typical files for 
the DKV.  Take a look at the file's velocity distribution using Veloset. 
  Suppose, for example, you find the range runs from 7 to 127 and that 
the occurrence of velocities between 7 and 30 is comparatively sparse. 
Suppose your (arbitrary) aim is to group the velocities into a range of 
25 to 90.

Here is how you could proceed with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9:

1.  First, take those few notes from 7 to 30, and make them all 30. 
(You are not going to waste 24 steps of dynamic range on a few percent 
of the notes.)  Using Cakewalk's filter, select the notes of velocity 
from 1 and 30.  Now use Edit/Velocity to set them all to 30.  Save and 
view again with Veloset.

2. Now, the range is 30 to 127 . . . a width of 97.  You want to scrunch 
that range of 97 to a range of 90 minus 25 . . . a width of 65.  So, the 
percentage to scale is (90 - 25)/(127 - 30) which is 67%.  Now, select 
all notes and use Edit/Velocity to scale by 67%.  Save and check your 
work with Veloset.  (Or, you could have just scaled using Veloset.) 
Note that the range is now 20 to 85.

3. To put the range where you want it, you need to move it up 5 steps. 
Select all notes and use Edit/Midi Effects/Cakewalk FX/Velocity and 
"Change Velocities by" to add 5 to each note's velocity.  Save and check 
with Veloset.  They should be right where you wanted them.

In summary, to make linear changes, you need to use a tool that is able 
to both scale by a percentage and to make fixed offsets.

If you wish to get fancy, it is possible to make non-linear changes by 
writing a table of the desired "before" and "after" velocity values and 
incorporating those values in a CAL routine within Cakewalk.




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