changing velocity

[David George]

In EZD2, is there a way of changing the velocity in song creator, the way there is in the browser and search modes?

I can’t seem to figure out a way of doing that.

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[Henrik]

Currently no, but it’s a good idea!
What I have done some times is right click a MIDI song block in the Song Creator and “Show in Browser” or “Search with Tags”. I then get pretty similar results shown in the Browser, or Search, where I can change velocity and tempo.

Thanks for the feedback – it’s noted 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[David George]

I do exactly the same thing: I may preview a block in Song Creator but then find it in the browser where I have the velocity pretty much always set much lower than 100%.

Thanks.

[Ian Cashman]

Great idea. I found this thread looking for the same thing. Pity it’s still not implemented. Song creator always makes the drum tracks sound way too loud. Why can it just not follow the browser velocity fader? It just creates work. I like to finish my drum track in EZD quickly also adding shakers and stuff. If you edit the patterns at all the find in browser workaround fails straight away. It defeats the object of song creator if you can only create loud songs. I know you can turn it down on the DAW afterwards but I don’t want to work on it loud while I just auditioned for mellower vibes.

[Eric.Hallman]

If you select all the midi blocks in song creator and then Edit Play Style you can turn the overall velocity down which I found helps for a more natural sound. What I would like to see is the ability to actually edit inside the midi blocks to be able to adjust notes and velocities on a per note basis just like in our DAW’s or be able to transfer it directly to the DAW to edit and then send it back instantly (I know you can export, edit, then import back, but that’s more of a work around). Would be a more efficient work flow to do all editing directly inside EZD2 imo.

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[jorgepeter]

A simple way of adding some velocity automation would be cool.

Its quite a specialised thing, but some songs are similar beats but just crescendo.

I use Reaper, and at least a rough way (for guide track before fine tuning) of doing this could be to automate that knob, maybe with the ‘hit number’ knob.

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