Currently the Key/Drum Editors only allows two colors for velocity display, which makes it difficult to visually distinguish between different velocity ranges at a glance. With only two colors the gradient between soft and loud notes is hard to read, especially in dense MIDI parts.
Other DAWs handle this more elegantly — Logic Pro for example uses a multi-stop color gradient with approximately five or six distinct color zones transitioning across the full velocity range, making it immediately clear which notes are quiet, medium, or loud without having to read individual values. The result is intuitive and visually rich — green for very soft, through yellow, orange, and red for louder notes.
As a former Logic user I almost always had the editor set to display velocity, as the color coding gave a lot of useful feedback at a glance. Since moving to Cubase I find myself relying on the velocity lane instead, but having velocity displayed in a separate lane makes it harder to quickly connect each bar to its corresponding MIDI note. I think if Cubase offered a richer velocity color scheme, more users would naturally gravitate towards using it as their primary display mode.
I’d like to request that Cubase allow users to define multiple color stops — ideally five or more — that blend across the full velocity range from 1 to 127. Additionally, a built-in default gradient similar to Logic’s would be a welcome.