So say I want to control the velocity of all notes on a track by a third-party VSTi's ADSR envelope on the amp section. Ideally I would like to select every note on the entire track, and enter a numerical value instead of using the velocity editor in the piano roll (kinda like pressing Ctrl+A and changing the font for an entire word doc to Arial 12 point, for instance). Is this possible?
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I was able to select a section or select all in piano roll and set the velocities at any desired equal level. shown is one section at -64 and the other at -90. Is this what you're trying to do? I understand equaling the velocities but don't know how you will control them with a VST.
Does the file have to be in BIAB? If so, Charlie's solution is excellent.
Just in case you are not aware of this...
In Reaper it's possible to right click on a note on the vertical keyboard on the lent (when editing MIDI) and that will select all those notes in the song.
Alternatively, it's possible to select blocks of notes.
Once notes are selected, they can then all be set to the same velocity.
Easy to do on the Melody and Soloist track. Alt L>Alt E>Alt L to adjust level of Melody (Melody>Edit Melody> Adjust Level) can set the level up or down by a fixed amount.
I usually set mine to the max (127) then down to what I want. This ensures that all notes are the same level regardless of where they started
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Does the file have to be in BIAB? If so, Charlie's solution is excellent.
Just in case you are not aware of this...
In Reaper it's possible to right click on a note on the vertical keyboard on the lent (when editing MIDI) and that will select all those notes in the song.
Alternatively, it's possible to select blocks of notes.
Once notes are selected, they can then all be set to the same velocity. Regards, Noel
Sideliner: For ages Cubase, and it's predecessor Pro 24 even, had and have the Logical Editor (for MIDI data). I dunno how other DAWs function, but i often used it to edit single notes out and do all sorts of weird things to them. Alas starting my Coffee percolator won't work, but this is IMO one of the many pres Cubase has over other DAWs:
Maybe I'm missing something here. You do not want to change velocity as a substitute for volume or expression most of the time. It makes the track sound fake or artificial. Most instruments including all stringed ones, all horns and drums change the character of the sound by using velocity. Take a snare drum for example. Hit it soft with a drumstick, then hit it hard. Does it sound the same only louder? Absolutely not. Same with piano. The whole point of paying big bucks for a high end synth for piano is to have multiple velocity layers so as you change the velocity of how hard you play it, the more realistic it sounds. Hit a piano key softly you hear a mellow, round sound. Hit harder and it's harsher and brighter. Synth sounds use velocity to trigger modulation, horns use it to trigger falls, doits, breasth and other variations, it goes on and on.
To me leave the velocity alone and use CC7 or CC11 unless you're using a cheap GM synth. Then it doesn't matter but if you're using a high end softsynth just read the description of the patches and you'll see them talking about velocity layers. It usually works out to the more money you spend the more layers you get.
This is one of those questions that goes to who is asking, what are they trying to do and how sophisticated they are when it comes to this stuff. Many on this forum only use free or very low cost GM synths so using velocity as volume is fine but then the same folks will ask sometime later how to I get more realistic sound? Well, that answer is to spend some money on a better synth which then flows to what I just wrote about velocity. It all goes together, to use a better synth you need to have a better understand of midi or you're not using that synth to it's full potential.
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