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

[ASSI]

On Saturday 01 May 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?

In the absence of any further information I'd stick with a value above 
64 (preferrably adjustable), since keyboards without velocity are 
supposed to send 64 as the fixed velocity value.  Some keyboards never 
send values above 100 (original DX7 IIRC), so these are also out if 
the threshold is not adjustable.  If you want to use this just for 
sequencing, then of course it doesn't really matter where the 
threshold is.  However, if there's really only two distinct velocity 
values, I'd much prefer if the velocity values from the note-on were 
ignored entirely and those two values were made switchable by Foot 
Controller (CC#4) or some such.


Achim.
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