Discussion of music production, audio, equipment and any related topics, either with or without Ableton Live
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Citizen
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by Citizen » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:37 am
I don't quite understand the purpose of this function in Simpler/Sampler/Impulse.
Why would you not want the variations in velocity of your midi notes to not represent a 1:1 correlation with the volume?
This would always drive me nuts, when I would wonder why I couldn't hear the variation of the velocity of my midi notes - only to find 'Velocity' or 'Vol<Vel' set to 0%.
Can anyone clear this up for me?
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pepezabala
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by pepezabala » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:54 am
when you trigger samples via simpler, one-shots like spoken words, sound efx etc and you want them to play back at a given volume that you have set with the fader, and that doesn't get influenced by the velocity of your finger hitting the key or the pad.
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luddy
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by luddy » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:56 am
When you play a sound live (from a keyboard), there's often too much dynamic range if you have vel>vol set to 100%. That is, the softest notes are too soft in relation to the loudest. Think of vel>vol as a kind of compressor that is triggered by velocity.
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Citizen
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by Citizen » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:21 am
luddy wrote:When you play a sound live (from a keyboard), there's often too much dynamic range if you have vel>vol set to 100%. That is, the softest notes are too soft in relation to the loudest. Think of vel>vol as a kind of compressor that is triggered by velocity.
-Luddy
Ah, cool - thats a good analogy.
Thanks for clearing that up guys - cheers!
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simonlb
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by simonlb » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:26 am
Might depend on your keyboard playing style as well, if you're playing stuff in using a keyboard. Or if you're drawing in notes you might want the velocity adjustments to be more subtle. I generally find 100% to be too sensitive in both these situations.
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Wbowers
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by Wbowers » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:35 am
I like to draw my velocity in. it allows more control
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crumhorn
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by crumhorn » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:19 pm
when layering sounds you can set different values so that a particular layer - eg a percusive attack sound - gets more prominant as you play harder.
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Wbowers
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by Wbowers » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:35 pm
Also on basses its good to turn it to 0 so that you can tie other parameters to the velocity.
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3dot...
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by 3dot... » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:53 pm
when you want velocity to have SOME effect not a total effect...
in short.. almost always..
my default is 60%..
