Disklavier

Greetings George,

I just ordered one of the midi solutions velocity controller and have
high hopes for it. According to the user manual, there are 40 preset
velocity curves that can be assigned to a controller number. I can
write a simple application that will send controller messages while
playing a file so you could switch from one preset to another. There
is also the ability to load a custom velocity curve which can be
easily constructed with the tool they provide. You can save any number
of these as MIDI files and send them to the device.

Sure, there is not going to be a single curve that fits all songs but
it sounds like it will be easy to change them either by sending MIDI
files or by writing the suitable application to send control messages.
If consistency is wanted, I believe that GNMIDI will adjust all MIDI
files in a folder to a common average velocity level.

If anyone has a DKV or other instrument that will respond to volume
messages, I can easily write an application with a slider to send
volume messages. As long as concurrent applications can access a MIDI
port simultaneously (seems to be possible with some windows versions
and not with others) this would be an easy solution. Unfortunately, my
PD does not respond to volume messages.

I have a program that contains all the code to send the messages with
a graphic slider control and will edit out all of the extraneous
material (it is currently a Virtual Windchime program) if anyone is
interested. I will probably adapt the same program to send controller
messages for controlling the Velocity Controller. If there is more
interest than my own, I could make this a general purpose program to
send volume or controller messages.

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