Change midi volume for a limited range of kick drum notes

Event list and adding volume midi messages before every kick drum midi note, within range of 0 to 127 is the only way that I know to.

Do it in the piano roll view.

Select the offending notes, then you have a choice of options.

1 - Process > Scale Velocity
2  - with them still selected, got back into Track View. find the clip where the highlighted notes are, then Right Click > Process effect > MIDI Effects > Cakewalk FX > Velocity

This will open up the Velocity tool in its own window where you can do all sorts of weird & wonderful things. If you haven't used it before, I suggest a brief scan of the help file to see what all the various controls do.

3 - Use Process > Find/Change to open up the Event Filter. Here you can select all your bad notes and perform the same action on them.

You can use the Event Filter located at Edit > Select > By Filter to select all notes within a certain velocity range (or any other criteria exposed by the EF). This might be better if you have LOTS of quiet notes, rather than trawling through and selecting them manually.
Then use one of the methods suggested above to set new velocities

Bristol_Jonesey


Do it in the piano roll view.

Select the offending notes, then you have a choice of options.

1 - Process > Scale Velocity
2  - with them still selected, got back into Track View. find the clip where the highlighted notes are, then Right Click > Process effect > MIDI Effects > Cakewalk FX > Velocity

This will open up the Velocity tool in its own window where you can do all sorts of weird & wonderful things. If you haven't used it before, I suggest a brief scan of the help file to see what all the various controls do.

3 - Use Process > Find/Change to open up the Event Filter. Here you can select all your bad notes and perform the same action on them.

You can use the Event Filter located at Edit > Select > By Filter to select all notes within a certain velocity range (or any other criteria exposed by the EF). This might be better if you have LOTS of quiet notes, rather than trawling through and selecting them manually.
Then use one of the methods suggested above to set new velocities

This.......^^^^

Scale velocity would be my choice here as it enables you to set the upper and lower limits to keep the individual notes within the range of a particular sweet spot on whatever library you are using.

Jonesy has got all bases covered here nicely.

Yeh Ive just found that in the PRV screen at the lower portion where it shows the Velocity bars extending up, 
you can zoom out just far enough to have the section you want to mess with, 
drag your mouse across them selecting the notes, 
then go up to the actual notes and hover with the smart tool until you see the Volume/Velocity adjustment, 
you can then raise or lower the intensities of just those notes selected

I find it helpful when adjusting, editing, deleting multiple notes that this works great!!!
Also Ill have the Track View up on the other monitor so I can zoom way in and make sure Im on time if moving them (ie... Ill make a snare, rimshot, crash, ride track all on the same track) I can grab the snare notes and drag them in PRV to the right spot/note, then go down and grab the ride and do the same, etc.... Then bring up the mixer and get them all where they need to be on panning and so on.   You can do alot dragging and selecting multiple notes fast.

Jeff Evans


Midi volume is not what he needs to alter here but midi velocities it seems might be the better option. Cannot you just get onto the page where you can easily see each note and the velocity associated with each note and just go in there and edit eg increase the velocities. Then keep checking over with SD3 to make sure they are louder. You could also try selecting a range of notes and use the required tool to draw all the velocities to come up to a certain level and then perhaps go in and alter a few here and there for realism etc.

Beat me too it . Ya gotta be quick around you guys heh heh.

Hi  Mike, thanks for the screen shots.  Those steps worked for me except once a highlighted the range of velocity I wanted to change, I cannot get the cursor to change to an edit mode where I can move the mouse to get all those selected notes to change at the same time.  I can highlight the notes I want to change and then use Alt-left click to draw over the those notes and then change based on what I drew.

Rimshot

It looks kinda like a Pencil next to 5 or so bars ascending up.  Cant get a picture of it to post

Rimshot


Hi  Mike, thanks for the screen shots.  Those steps worked for me except once a highlighted the range of velocity I wanted to change, I cannot get the cursor to change to an edit mode where I can move the mouse to get all those selected notes to change at the same time. 

Hey, I just tried some things with this and think I duplicated what your telling me. 

In the PRV, I zoomed out on the verticle size a little and LOST the ability to do it as I explained. Took me a minute to figure out why/how I ended up in your situation of not being able to get the Tool to select the right one hovering.  I zoomed back in to where the notes were apprx 1/4" tall and got it back.  The width of the notes dont seem to be an issue as long as it can focus in on one of the notes. (ie My hihat track might have a mess of 32nd hits close together, they will be skinny and it cant focus on one so I move left or right to a longer selected note and no problems). Zoomed in far enough to select multiple notes (20-30 at a time that vary in velocities from50-110), As I get the correct tool to come up hovering, when I grab and hold the note to change it, all selected notes verticle velocity lines will change from blue to red.

In 8.5 the Edit>Select By>Filter and Process>Interpolate features are very handy for selecting and changing certain values to other values.

You can use Select By Filter to select all notes below a certain velocity and then Scale Velocity to increase the velocity. That's handy if the notes with low velocities are scattered around the track.


Edit: I just noticed Bristol_Jonesey suggested the same method. It is, IMO, the best way to go and is very easy to do once you are familiar with the process.

Your welcome ,
I got the sound to work and did a new video for ya 
The other solutions sound good above, this is just my easy way of hitting it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQbIIyoqsI&context=C41b3a34ADvjVQa1PpcFMLWUK-un52z9aft_h67zALX43g2PGEnlE=

Agrees with Rim...awesome job Mike, thanks for sharing that. It's amazing how many different ways people use this program to get the same results. I do it a different way than that, but I like this way you showed in the vid, better. I was actually going to make Rim a little vid as well...then I saw yours and well..you taught me something too and I thank you for that. :)

-Danny