[sdiy] What's a good velocity # for note loud vs soft?

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, MTG wrote:

> Suppose you have a MIDI synth that can only play two velocity levels... 
> what do you think would be a good MIDI velocity for the crossover point? 
> I know that some non-velocity synths use a value way less that 0x7F so 
> their note-on's should still trigger the loud sound.  Anyone got a 
> feeling for what that velocity might be?  Maybe 0x01 - 0x3E for soft and 
> 0x3F to 0x7F for loud?

I seem to recall many synths using 90 as the midpoint (decimal - I fail to 
see any good reason to stick to hex for a linear value like this)



Antti

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