Hey Wendy,

As always, you got tons of stellar advice from everyone here.

That said, and if you find some of the tips here a tad overwhelming what with editing the velocity lines and what-not, something you should be aware of (and, to me, one of the first things you should learn about when starting to work with MIDI), is the concept of ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release).

You see, even if the MIDI notes sustain at a contant velocity far longer than you want them to, the overwhelming majority of patches/presets on any soft-synth/VSTi you use on a track will not utilize infinite sustain. This means that the duration of the note will "trail off" regardless of the length of a MIDI note, and will terminate until a new note is played.

I would strongly suggest that you ditch the SFZ player, which, as far as I can tell (and I have searched SFZ player for this feature), does not contain ADSR envelopes, and instead experiment with various third-party plugins, of which there are a tremendous amount of excellent options available for free on the internet.

experiment with a variety

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