Trying to tame some of the midi hi-hats from my old midi files. Some was produced by the old Roland R8 humanized function.

Running it through the BOSS DR880 seems fine, but with Session Drummer 3, some very low velocity didn't seems to come out (or rather soft).

The Cakewalk FX - Velocity will just set a low and upper velocity limit. I'm looking at an effect that would maintain the velocity ratio.

Any build-in midi compressor fx that I might have missed ? 

if none, any good free vst recommendation ?  or a good commercial midi compressor ?

Thanks.

Go to interpolate - velocity, and make an area of for example 30-100 and change it to 57-127. I'm not at my computer now, maybe "interpolate" is called "change" or something now. =)

Thanks Leizer.

I might have missed out on other feature of the Cake Velocity fx.. I shall check it out.

There is a reference here

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X2&Lang=EN&Req=EditingMIDI.57.html

Don't seems to have the compressor function.. The "Change" and "Gradually" option can't be activated (probably can't activate as VST).

Still looking..

Its not a VST thing. You just mark the whole track and manually change the values. Go to "process" menu and choose "find/change". In there just enter the velocity values, leave the rest.

There should also be a CAL script that will do this. I've used it before and it works fairly well.

Regards,
Dan

Check out this article...
* Compressing MIDI Velocities in Cakewalk SONAR
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/tip.asp?ID=1

Scott

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Thanks!

The Process : Find/Change does exactly that.

The CAL scripts are a bit complicated to understand what each file does, reading it's short file name.. but I know the scripts can add powerful features. Wondering if there is a detail documentation what each scrip does (I suspected there must be.. just have not search them up yet..).

Thanks again Leizer, Dan and Scott. Great tips.

Many CAL scripts have detailed instructions embedded in their code.  You can open a CAL script in any text editor (such as Windows Notepad) to see them.
Check out C-MPLMIT.CAL which may be what you're looking for.  Here's part of the description:
 
";;; This is a CAL program that acts similar to an electronic compressor/
;;;  limiter by scaling velocity and adding some set amount to velocity
;;;  to make up for losses caused by the scaling.
;;;
;;;  It allows you to set an upper limit for the compressed velocities."
 
Hope this helps!
Kenn

Ntonyx Note adjuster does that...I think

http://www.ntonyx.com/mk01.htm