Note Velocity for Thundersheetr

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I finally got my VSL Thundersheet working with Dorico/NotePerformer, but it is far too quiet. Is it possible to increase the note velocity like I would in a DAW? (I have already turned the Dorico mixer up to 127 for that sound.)

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I suggest you use whatever sound control there is inside the VSTi — there probably is an output button somewhere. Or use the inserts slots, there are some nice plugins that come with Dorico (compressors, eqs…) that do have such controls if you need an extra boost.

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Thanks, Marc. I did not think of Inserts and did not know Dorico provided those. I often use compression in DAWs when I need more boost.

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I found how to change the note velocity to 127, but it was already at 119, so I will look into a compression or boost insert.

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I was more thinking about a microphone setting or a pre-amplifier… What VSTi are you using?

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This is for Vienna Symphonic (VSL).

In the mixer, I don’t see a way to put an insert effect on that channel.

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If I click Instruments at the top of the mixer, the thundersheet does not show up. If I click MIDI, it shows up, but there does not seem to be an Insert option.

This is not a huge problem, but I might want to use other exotic percussion in the future, so I’d like to figure it out.

Thanks.

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You can’t add effects to MIDI faders. You need to find the fader that corresponds to the output from your VSL instrument, which depending on how things are set up could conceivably only show up when you activate the Unused filter on the Mixer. Play a note in that VST instrument and look at the faders in the Mixer to see which channel the signal is being returned on.

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