[sdiy] MIDI Velocity on analog synths

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:58:33PM +0000, Neil Johnson wrote:
> > While you're doing Note On Velocity, I say you might as well implement Note
> > Off Velocity. You'll just need to implement a second set of scaling and
> > routing parameters. Admittedly, very few controllers send Note Off Velocity.
> > However, many more synths respond to Note Off Velocity, even if they don't
> > generate the message from their own keyboard.
> 
> I was amused to learn that not only does the Kawai K4 do something
> useful with note-off velocity (modifies DCF and DCA envelope release
> time), but the keyboard itself generates proper note-off events with
> velocity.
> 
>  Neil

The Ensoniq Mirage maps note-on velocity to attack and note-off velocity to release times :-)

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