Piano Roll View and Velocity

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cstockdale

supafly killa homey
Using Sonar 2.2.XL still, waiting for the money for the upgrade!!!.
I have been programming drum beats in DR-008 using the piano roll view. Of course, when I put all the bits in, the velocity is always the same, which is easy enough with the first few parts.

But, when I have a kick/snare/hihat/cymbal and other parts all hitting at teh same time , how can I adjust the velocity of only one of those?

When I drag up the controller pane at the bottom of the PRV, it shows me the velocity at that particular spot (say the 1e hit on measure 5) , but I can't discern between multiple hits at that point, and I only want to adjust my hihat hits right now (a series of 16th notes on a hihat at the same velocity sounds like shit).

I know I can use the split note to tracks CAL, but that makes composing the overall drum part very difficult, if possible, I would rather keep it all in teh same MIDI track for now until the drum part if done, then I can go about tweaking the individual parts.

How do you guys do this?
 
Hey there CS,

Go into Piano Roll View.

Right click the note whose velocity you want to change. Alter the velocity value in the pop-up dialogue box.

There's a method whereby you can select all of the Kicks, for example and globally change the velocities.

In PRV, in the LH pane where all of the instrument names are located, left click on Kick to highlight all of the Kicks in the track.

At the top of the screen click on Process>MIDI Effects>CakeWalk FX>Velocity...

This brings up a swishy-looking dialogue box. From this you can change the velocities as you want to.

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BluesMeister
 
Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for. There are too many dang tricks in this here Sonar thingy (just kidding), it is amazing how you can use a program for 2 years and still be trying to figure out these little tricks. I am sure that is in the manual, which I have read several times, but sometimes those little details are hard to just find at the snap of a finger.

I am in for a treat when I upgrade to 3.0 Producers Edition... shit, I will have to start all over again.
 
cstockdale said:
I am in for a treat when I upgrade to 3.0 Producers Edition... shit, I will have to start all over again.
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Don't worry man - most of the MIDI programming stuff is the same in 3.0 and most of the improvements are actually intuitive.

I didn't find the learning curve too steep at all.

:) Q.
 
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