Velocity Scaler

Comments (4)

• c2001 · April 06 2023
  Hi, how is it different from the "drive" parameter found on the Ableton native Velocity MIDI effect ?
• jonpauldavies · April 06 2023
  c2001 Hi!
  Velocity Scaler is different in that it adds consistent values to all velocities, meaning both loud and quiet notes increase/decrease by the same amount.
  Using Drive, if you have two notes, one with a velocity of 100 and one with a velocity of 50 - If you dial in drive of 0.16 you end up with two notes, one with a velocity of 108 and the other 68 - the increase in velocity is exponential. one has an increase of 8, the other of 16
  Using Velocity Scaler, if you have two notes, one with a velocity of 100 and one with a velocity of 50 - if you dial in a couple of clicks of VS you end up with velocity values of 108 and 58 - the increase in velocity is the same - 8 added to both values.
  I think VS is a lot more musical for increasing intensity as you transition between song parts. Just IMHO though obviously!
  Thanks for the question.
• c2001 · April 06 2023
  Thanks JonPaul ! That's brilliant because I don't use much midi anymore but when I do and need to boost velocities I couldn't understand why the drive didn't do what your device does !
  I was fiddling with the so-called compression or more often just raising the values of the vertical bars in edit mode.
  So thank you for this useful utility !
• maxbowie · June 01 2023
  Have tyou thought about using a percentage of the incoming velocity value rather than a fixed amount? While this is a bit more musical than the 'drive' in ableton's velocity effect, the problem with the fixed amount approach, is that the greater the difference between velocities of difference incoming notes, the more inaccurate the output. so if yoou have 2 original notes: one at 20 and the next at 80, and you increase the velocity of both by a set value of 20, then one note is 100 percent louder, while the next is only 25 percent louder. If you go by a 20 percent increase instead, then the increase in volume would be more like a pianist actually plays: Each note would get 20 percent louder than it's original amount.