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Xequence and midi modulation
Okay, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing... I've been watching Daniel James' tutorials and he did one on controlling velocities with a midi cc. How would one do that with Xequence?
And this is off topic, but I you guys know everything... is there a parametric EQ app?
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So velocity is different than cc, in that velocity describes note on messages, and are tied to notes in the piano roll. CC are independent of notes and can change continuously over the length of the pattern.
In Xequence, you edit velocity in the Pattern editor. At the bottom, hit the musical notes button, then hit the upside down triangle button in the pop up menu.
This will change the editor from notes mode to velocity mode.
For parametric eq, there is one built in to AUM. Do you have AUM? I think you have AUM. If you don’t have AUM, I would suggest buying AUM instead of a parametric eq. It costs a little more than the average plugin, but AUM is definitely worth more than its price.
Thanks, CP. Aum is next ( maybe tonite!).
As for the modulation, I figured I wouldn't get it across the first time. Daniel is working on tracks in Cubasis. He demos orchestral tracks with no dynamics and shows how by using a midi modulation cc (selected from a long pull down menu of ccs) he can overlay changes in volume (velocity) so his orchestral tracks have changed in dynamics... does the pattern editor in Xequence do that?
The screenshots above of Xequence show the notes in the first pic and the velocities in the second pic. Each vertical bar in the second pic corresponds to a note in the first pic. The height of the bar represents that notes velocity or volume. Each bar can be individually edited with the pencil tool.
If you mean record some CC data, with say the mod wheel, and then apply it as velocity, then I am not sure. I can try if that is what you mean, and let you know.
Its good to keep in mind that volume and velocity aren't the same thing though. Velocity is how hard you hit a note, which yes, can make it louder if the instrument is velocity sensitive, but only at the point that you hit the note. Volume can be completely independent of velocity though. If an instrument has a volume knob and you can send a midi cc to it, you can turn the volume up or down independent of how hard you hit the note (velocity), and throughout any point in time the note is playing.
Xequence can send both velocity and midi cc's to control volume - but they're different things.
And volume is usually the less exciting of the two, since velocity can also affect timbre.
Thanks, friends. Daniel's point was that the orchestral instruments he was working with didn't respond to velocity so they all recorded at the same level. He used a midi cc to adjust the dynamic in real time over his four bar composition. This is what I would like to do, too.
Ok. You can do that with the method I described above. You can edit the velocities while playback is engaged. You can set up looping for the pattern you are editing.
If you set up a 4 bar pattern with looping on, you can edit the velocities live until you are quite satisfied with the results. This would allow you to recreate the workflow from the Daniel James tutorial.