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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006040 | ardour | features | public | 2014-11-24 17:39 | 2016-02-13 19:57 |
| Reporter | florianb | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0006040: MIDI mixer faders should be volume and not velocity multiplier | ||||
| Description | One basic Synthesizers/Samplers, strong velocity is equal to high volume. It is not the case on SoundBanks Samplers. These have multiple layers of samples so a strong velocity sounds totally different than a low one at matching volume. Since faders are very automation oriented, I think being velocity multipliers doesn't make sense. They should be volume CC. Because of that I simply never use these faders and have Volume CC on every track, which is not handy to manipulate. Since I use a control surface, it's such a pity! Now, the ideal scenario would be to have faders configurable, something like: MIDI faders are: - Velocity Multipliers - List of all CC ... This way, anyone could even use faders for pitch e.g. or whatever is the most useful for them. Individually for each fader would even be better! | ||||
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Plenty of people would use faders for expression also. |
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In addition, velocity is applied when sending the "note on" event, and doesn't change for the duration of the note. Any changes are applied only to new notes. This means that it is not possible to do smooth mixing as would be expected when using a control surface. One way to demonstrate this is: record a midi track with very long notes. Using a midi surface control the mix. |
