Dec 24, 2002 07:14 am It means layers of instruments that are hit differently, some harder and some softer. "Velocity" is geekspeak for "how hard ya hit it"
velocity layers? eh? drum sample question for ya...
Posted on Dec 23, 2002 06:09 pm
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ust been d/ling a load of drum samples from www.nskit.com/ (and very good they are too)and they talk about different velocity layers. eh? whats that mean? help!
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Dec 24, 2002 07:14 am It means layers of instruments that are hit differently, some harder and some softer. "Velocity" is geekspeak for "how hard ya hit it"
Dec 24, 2002 08:51 pm Just to expand a bit on what db just said........When you speak of velocity in MIDI, it's simply the volume level of the same sound. For example, you have the same snare drum sound in a MIDI file. Altering the velocity of that sound just results in the same sound at a different overall volume. When you're talking about layered samples, you're actually working with individual samples of the same snare drum being hit at different dynamic levels. So, in the ns kit, you may have 11 snare samples, all hit at different velocities, which, when triggered with MIDI, will result in a different dynamic sound as opposed to just an altered volume. When set up properly, say in the DR-008 drum sampler included with Sonar, you can achieve much more realistic drums than you can with MIDI. In other words, it's way cool!!! Happy Holidays to everyone !!
Ed
Dec 26, 2002 09:59 am ahhhhh that makes sense - ta! confusing name for something too easy
Dec 27, 2002 10:41 pm Hey dB, I'm likin this guitar ed guy. Can we keep him around here? He's makin my job as the midi geek easier.
Dec 28, 2002 12:19 am Thank you, sir !! That's my many, many hours in the basement coming out !! Lots of people only think about keyboards and sound modules when they talk about MIDI, but I've always loved all the stuff you can do with it. You haven't lived until you watch a whole rack of guitar gear change channels at the same time by stepping on one button !! Way too cool !! Anyway, I'm glad to help when I can. Thanks for noticing!
Ed
Dec 28, 2002 01:08 am Or better yet, watching and hearing FX processor's, synth's, and everything else being controled in real time by the sequancer running on the computer. All via midi, I love it. I have used it for year's for controlling everything in the studio. I like the fact that CakeWalk built a tool for building control panel's to use in their program that will control anything you have ine real time. I have built panel's for every piece of gear in here.
And welcome, it's good to have another midi guru in the forum.
Peace
Noize 2 U
Dec 28, 2002 09:02 am Agreed Noize, it always nice to have another active member around here. guitar ed has been a great asset to this community since your little hiatus...hell, maybe we'll just kick Noize out now :-) hehehehe
Dec 28, 2002 01:03 pm I can't find a little icon that's blushing, so I'll just say thanks again for the kind words.
Ed
Dec 28, 2002 01:24 pm I'll work on getting a blushing icon :-)
And thank you for being a part of what makes the internet, and our little community great.
Dec 30, 2002 10:52 am Yes, the more info we can share the better.
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