MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone

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JoanMichele
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2011/01/28 03:38:19 (permalink)

MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone

Hi there, I am having an issue with DropZone. When I insert a drumkit program that came with it, and plugged a MIDI Drum track to it that I have written (With note velocity values ranging from 44-121) almost all of the notes that come out come out at almost the same velocities with no discernible volume variations. What gives? Is there a solution?

I am using Music Creator 4.
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    57Gregy
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    Re:MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone 2011/01/28 11:38:09 (permalink)
    I'm not at my music computer to take a look, but I'll do that when I get home from work.
    I know DZ doesn't respond to pitch bend; perhaps it doesn't respond to velocities, too.
    It should state as much in the DZ help. With DZ open and in focus, press the F1 key on your computer keyboard.

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    Re:MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone 2011/01/28 14:07:48 (permalink)
    I don't use drop zone so I know nothing about it. I think it's a sampler.

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    Re:MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone 2011/01/28 20:01:49 (permalink)
    very likely the drum kit that you're loading only has 1 velocity layer.  dropzone was not developed as an expensive sampler, it's a very simple one, so it likely doesn't have expensive samples, thus probably only 1 velocity layer.

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    Re:MIDI Velocity Flattens with DropZone 2011/01/29 10:41:09 (permalink)
    It looks like DZ doesn't respond to velocity. I did what you did and all the hits were at the same volume regardless of the note's velocity.
    You can load a sample in each element and adjust their velocities.
    The TTS-1 drums respond to velocity changes; have you tried those?
    Session Drummer 2 was only $10 recently. Maybe it's still on sale. That drum machine has different velocity layers in it's samples.

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