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Old 06-22-2021, 04:21 PM
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Default Adjusting midi velocity

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If I adjust 2 midi notes velocities together (a chord), one will get much louder than the other as I adjust them.

Is there a way to fix that? It's a terrible way to edit. They should incrementally adjust. Surely Avid has another default setting?
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Default Re: Adjusting midi velocity

Are you using the key commands to increment the Velocities by 5 or 15? If you grab them and drag up or down, it will scale them, which is problematic if one note is way softer than the other.

Increase velocity by Five
Command+Up Arrow - Mac
Control+Up Arrow - Windows

Decrease velocity by Five
Command+Down Arrow - Mac
Control+Down Arrow - Windows

Increase velocity by Fifteen
Command+Shift+Up Arrow - Mac
Control+Shift+Up Arrow - Windows

Decrease velocity by Fifteen
Command+Shift+Down Arrow - Mac
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Old 06-22-2021, 05:20 PM
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Wow thanks for the tips! I'll use these.

Yeah I'm grabbing them.

It's not just when the notes have a big difference. Even if the notes are quite similar in velocity, they scale way too differently. If there's not a better default, Avid needs to fix
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Old 06-22-2021, 09:21 PM
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Are you using the key commands to increment the Velocities by 5 or 15? If you grab them and drag up or down, it will scale them, which is problematic if one note is way softer than the other.

Have you noticed these issues?:

1. The A note below Middle C is always louder than the other notes?

2. If I record a take, I have to manually draw the sustain down to zero if I want to keep recording on that track after my take. Otherwise, the sustain ceases to work. The lines are drawn when I use the pedal, but they don't actually affect the sound
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Wow thanks for the tips! I'll use these.

Yeah I'm grabbing them.

It's not just when the notes have a big difference. Even if the notes are quite similar in velocity, they scale way too differently. If there's not a better default, Avid needs to fix
I change note velocity by right-clicking on the note(s) and using the 'change velocity' entry in the popup list and then using one of the options there. More precise than anything else.
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I change note velocity by right-clicking on the note(s) and using the 'change velocity' entry in the popup list and then using one of the options there. More precise than anything else.
I'll give it a go, thanks man.
It still doesn't fix Avid's glitch that two notes will adjust way too differently when done together
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Old 07-01-2021, 11:17 PM
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I'll give it a go, thanks man.
It still doesn't fix Avid's glitch that two notes will adjust way too differently when done together
I get why you wouldn’t like this behaviour but I’m not sure it’s a glitch and might actually be a deliberate feature!

It allows you to compress and expand the velocities of selected notes and I use it all the time in this way. For example, let’s say you have a chord and some notes are too loud and some too soft, it allows you to compress the velocities closer together. Or maybe you have a melody line and some notes are too loud or soft, again you can compress the velocity range.

If you want to simply add or subtract velocity values, there are some keyboard commands as massivekerry mentioned above. Also you can do it in Velocity Event Operations.
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Or, edit the velocity on each note itself with the Ctrl key(that's for Windows. I think its Cmd on a Mac). This might work on a cluster of notes if you draw a box around the notes you want to adjust, but I've never tried that
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