I’m back with another feature request! Set the velocity range. It is a feature found in the better DAWs. At present, the on-screen keyboard is a bit useless as the velocity settings are not well implemented. You have louder plays at the bottom and softer plays at the top. This should be in the reverse direction. Secondly, because of the black keys, you only have half the range on screen. When trying to do sound design in Cubasis, and working with a delicate instrument like a Piano for example, you always get the loudest note. The onscreen keyboard is basically useless to me for this reason.
I prefer Gadget’s performance page as it gives you everything you could want. You get “folded” keys, meaning you only get the notes you want for the scale, you can set the scale, the octave and the range all in one place. You can also access the arpeggiator. But, Korg only gives you one horrible chord. Cubasis gives us a wonderful chord editor. But Cubasis does not give us a workable velocity solution.
For setting the velocity range, Garageband has the best implementation. It is a slider, that allows you to set the low, and set the high. I like the velocity range to play somewhere between 10% and 80%, never above that unless I am doing something with drums.
In the settings, on the “Keys/Pads” page, below the “Velocity Sensitive” option, add an additional menu option with a horizontal slider allowing the user to set their range for the velocity sensitive keys/pads.
To summarise
- Give the users the option in settings, using a horizontal slider to set the minimum and maximum velocity range for the onscreen keys and pads.
- Give the users an option to choose if they want lower velocities played at the bottom of the key and higher velocity played at the top (reverse of what it currently is)
- Consider giving the user a scale-aware keyboard that can remove the black keys to give the user full screen availability. Also, allow the user to designate the root, the octave position and the range of keys visible.