Copy velocities from one sequence of midi notes to another

Cubase
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The only solution to this I have seen is to drag and drop the midi part onto the Quantize Panel, set Position to 0 %, Velocity to 100 % and Length to 0 % and then save the preset before applying it to another midi part.

However, this doesn’t seem to work if the sequences aren’t rhythmically identical. Is there a way around this?

Ideally I would like to map the velocity from one sequence of midi notes to another, completely independently of the note positions relative to the grid.

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Hi,

I’m sorry, I’m afraid this is not possible.

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isnt this possible with quantize? you have to preprogram a quantize preset with velocity values and save it, then apply to anytyhing?

im also looking for this right now

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yes just tested it, it works!!!

drag the midi you want to copy the velocity from in QUANTIZE PANEL (choose same devision, like 16th) with VELOCITY at 100%

then save and apply to anything :slight_smile:

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Could you or someone else explain this better? I have no idea how to do what you describe. And it would be extremely helpful if I could manage this.

  1. When you mention dragging MIDI, do you mean a passage of notes from within a Dorico project? (I have such a passage, but I can use another program to create one.)
  1. The only quantize panel I can find is in preferences. I am totally lost about how to drag in velocity from there.
  2. What do I save? Where should I save it to? And how can I “apply it to anything?”
    Thanks for posting, and I apologize if I’m missing something basic, but I’ve spent an hour trying to figure out what you recommend, including looking for videos.
    cheers,
    David
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This is the Cubase sub-forum so it doesn’t really apply to Dorico

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Sorry. That makes sense. My search engine let me here and I didn’t notice that it was the wrong forum.

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What do you mean by choose the same division in this case? I think the scenario I describe would mean that the grid division doesn’t really matter.

Say for example I want to map the velocities from the random sequence of notes shown below.

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To the same random sequence of notes that is played with a different rhythm shown here.

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If I use the method you describe, this is the result with position and length set to 0:

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Some of the velocities have changed but the desired result is not achieved.

From a programming perspective, it would be simple to do what I am trying to achieve as long as the sequences were monophonic and contained the same number of notes.

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I wonder if this could be achieved with the logical editor?

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Hi,

Once you start to think about all the use case and possibilities, you will find, it’s not simple at all. :wink:

Unfortunately not. You cannot store/call variables within the Logical Editor.