Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

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PLacidBasilisk
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Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by PLacidBasilisk » Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:52 am

I've got an arpeggiated synth segment from which i am trying to extract some audio. I only want the output of one of the four notes that make up the chord and I thought I could achieve this by reducing all the others' velocity to zero in clip view. unfortunately it is having no effect whatsoever and the other notes continue to play.

Can anyone suggest why this is happening/how to fix it or point me in the direction of an alternate solution?

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by longjohns » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:18 am

maybe the instrument is not sensitive to velocity?

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by zalo » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:22 am

why cant you just delete the other notes?

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by contakt321 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:54 am

What is the instrument you are arpeggiating? On many instruments you have to enable velocity sensitivity.

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by PLacidBasilisk » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:04 am

Ah it would seem that the instrument is indeed not sensitive to velocity. Problem is, if I delete the other notes then the arpeggio won't follow the same pattern. Any ideas on how I can isolate on part of the arpeggiated pattern?

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by zalo » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:35 am

delete the synth, and then record the midi post arp to another midi track, then delete all the other notes

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by concept_control » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:24 pm

Following from Zalo, feed the midi from the arp into a new midi track and record the arp's pattern on it. Then you can access the editor to tweak velocities, and subseqeuently dump the synth on the new track. Fiddly but worth it.

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Re: Velocity editor in Clip View has no effect

Post by UKRuss » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:52 pm

Record the whole thing to audio and then use clip envelopes to draw the volume automation as desired, then re-sample.

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