[Lmuse-user] Muse velocity editing - where is it?

[Mark K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,
   I'm working on some orchestral MIDI files and so far I find that
I'm pretty much forced to do the work in Pro Tools due to velocity
editing requirements. Am I missing some hidden feature of Muse that
allows me to gain access to MIDI velocity on both a single note and
group of notes basis?

   Editing velocity is *extremely * important when using
multi-velocity libraries under GigaStudio or LinuxSampler. It is far
and away the most important edit possible to get realistic orchestral
sounds as it corresponds to the way the library developers implement
different playing of instruments from soft to loud.

1) Under the MIDI menu I find nothing about velocity. (Or really
anything oriented towards MIDI editing at all.)

2) If I double click a track and pop up a piano roll window then I see
note lengths but not velocity. In fact it really seems that the
velocity numbers in this window are just incorrect. If I click on a
single note I always see 127 independent of what the real velocity is.
If I select a group of notes Muse tells me the velocity is 0 which
seems doubly incorrect.

   Since I cannot find the way to edit this stuff I'll assume for the
moment that it doesn't exist. I know I'm probably wrong about that but
I'll use the rest of this note to document what Pro Tools provides.

   I don't want to hold Pro Tool up as a design goal since there are
supposedly much better MIDI editors out there but Pro Tools is the
only one I know. In PTLE I can switch views of any MIDI track to the
follow set of possibilities:

Blocks
Regions
Notes
Velocity
Volume
Mute
Pan
Pitch Bend
Mono Aftertouch
Program Change
Sysex
Controllers-> (a list of any possible controller)

In the velocity view I see the notes greyed out and I see a vertical
line with a small selector at the top of the line. The height of the
line represents the velocity on a scale of 0-127. You can select this
parameter in three ways:

1) Select the marker at the top of any line. The marker changes color,
as does the greyer out note it's associated with. You can drag the
marker up and down. In the upper left it shows the numerical velocity
value of that note.

2) Select a certain greyed out note. The marker changes color. You can
now select the marker and drag it up and down. In the upper left it
shows the numerical velocity value of that note.

3) Group select a section of notes. All the markers change color. Grab
one of the markers and you can now raise or lower the velocity of all
the notes together. In the upper left it shows a number representing
the overall change. It starts at 0 and goes +1, +2, +3, etc., or it
goes -1, -2, -3, etc.

PTLE also provides a whole menu item in the MIDI menu called 'Change
velocity...' that allows you to change both the attack and release
velocities to fixed values, add or subtract values, scale values by a
percentage, change smoothly from a starting value to an ending value
(or starting % to an ending %). You can also apply a curve to values
and you can randomize values.

   Does ANYTHING like this exist in Muse and I'm just not spotting it?
Are the values displayed in the piano roll correct or incorrect?

   If they don't exist is there any development plans for these sorts
of capabilities?

Thanks for listening,
Mark