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

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Sat, 1 May 2010, Richard Wentk wrote:

> A single velocity is fine, a continuous range is fine, but switched 
> velocity isn't a good thing. You can set this up on some samplers and 
> ROMPlers, but generally it's used to bring in some extra element with 
> harder playing. Switching between two contrasting tones wouldn't work as 
> well.

You can notice this much too easily in many romplers. The difference 
between two velocity layers is often way too obvious and sometimes even 
makes it unplayable (Roland RS-70 electric piano sound comes to mind - two 
velocity layers with huge difference in sound and no crossfade).

Antti

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