by Ecaroh » 09 Oct 2013, 23:10
Arrghhh..
How long we have asked for more/better options for adjusting velocity? Quite long in fact. Personally I've been writing about it more than I remember.
Now NP2 owners will have one new curve. Hopefully it gives them at least little better playing feeling for some piano sounds. Others like me, owning NS2, will have to wait...
Why do I sound little frustrated about this? It's simply because this should not be that difficult. Please correct me if I am wrong, but it does not demand higher mathematics to program a way to adjust velocity-response. Basically it's about interpreting two values: if your keyboard sends (real) velocity value 10 for example, then you curve would modify it to 8 for example. (Of course it will handle these real values 0-127 different depending on the curve). In this example sound response is little softer than with linear (10=10) curve. If this mathematics is too difficult to program inside Nord (and for sure it isn't!), they could make a simple app to "draw" these relations between those two numbers for each value from 0 to 127.
Nord makes great instruments and great sounds, but I don't really understand why they cannot give us real tools for adjusting them to our personal preferences and most of all our different playing styles. Velocity adjustment is very important also because of the different instruments and different sample sets. To me it's very obvious that for EPs need different curve than APs for example.
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Ecaroh on 09 Oct 2013, 23:14, edited 1 time in total.