[sdiy] MIDI Velocity on analog synths

[Dave Kendall]

On 6 Feb 2014, at 16:02, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> 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 :-)


The keyboard versions of the Kurzweil K2000, K2500 AND K2600/2661 all 
transmit and receive release velocity, as does the PC3K series.

cheers,
Dave