Velocity Issues in Drum Editing.

[Wolfraam_Maanes]

Greetings and hello, and thank you for having me. I performed a search prior, but no dice.

Okay, so I use S1 6 Pro,
Load samples into Impact XT,
Generally set all sample DB @ 0.0 in Impact, unless it's some weird little sound that's going to need a boost before it hits the mixer.
I trigger these sounds with an Alesis Q49, and there's nothing in the manual about being able to disengage touch sensitivity in the keys.
I use a combination of Impulse and Step record.
What I need is to be able to highlight my assemblage of recorded notes and set a "master velocity" to 100%. Why?
I'm a long time drummer and I know how to edit individual notes to create a more realistic dynamic set BEFORE we even get into "Humanizing".
The S1 MIDI editor keeps changing my individual notes by 2 to 5%, unless I go to EACH NOTE and hard set them.
This completely blows. It's tedious and far too time consuming.
At this point, I'd be happy just to get the 100% across the board, and for the editor to leave my notes alone unless I specifically change each one.

Thank you!

 

[TheBassBagwhan]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but you can select multiple notes or even all of them and use the same MIDI note editor to set them all at the same velocity.

 

[Wolfraam_Maanes]

Does it have to be done in the in the "fine tune" ( 2nd ) editor screen/page?

 

[Crossinger]

It might be helpful to share a screenshot of what you’re actually doing in S1. That could help us find a solution for you.

 

[Wolfraam_Maanes]

Will do.

 

[lokeyfly]

...The S1 MIDI editor keeps changing my individual notes by 2 to 5%, unless I go to EACH NOTE and hard set them.
This completely blows. It's tedious and far too time consuming.

Do you have quantize set when recording notes? The resolution of Studio One is like 1000 (tics) per beat so, you shouldn't even be able to descern any change when recording straight in with input quantize off.

At this point, I'd be happy just to get the 100% across the board, and for the editor to leave my notes alone unless I specifically change each one.

Thank you!

The MIDI editor should be leaving you're notes completely alone, unless somethingnis set to do so.

Suggestion: If when recording, your rhythm is close to what you want, you could duplicate the track. Then change the duplicated track (it only needs to be, and should be a section of the track. For example two bars long. Now, with the instrument track, use the groove quantize, and drag in from the other tracks, the window at the top, into the edited event. This will capture the groove to thise related notes.
Give that a try. Studio One will never adjust any notes unless something is telling it to. That something might be snap to grid or some other setting.
Hope that helps.

 

[Wolfraam_Maanes]

I figured it out. You have to do it from the dialogue box in the 'Action' menu for all channels/notes. This DAW is okay, but I can see moving on to something else down the road. I really hate the browser in this thing big-time. Can't delete the stock Presonus garbage, can't change sample names, can't even create a few primary folders for the things you use most, and take the rest of the crap out of the view altogether.
Meh.

 

[lokeyfly]

Good, you got it solved. .
When I do use the samples from the browser, I usually dont care about the names, but to solidify the collection(s) used most, I place them in Impact. You can tune them there, change them, adjust envelopes, round Robin individual pads there when multi layering, randomize multi layers and so on. I have other libraries for drums, so I use the Studio One bundled sample library as added percussive nuances. Its pretty great for such things.
Glad you worked through it. Remember, you dont need the Action menu either to avoid notes from shifting or adjusting. But we all have our workflow. Personally, I'm not a fan of the Action Menu as its just too limited and doesn't really satisfy musical results. JMO.

 

[John Vere]

I simply open the editor and then the velocity envelope view. Highlight them all and look for the lowest one. Drag them all to the top. Let go now drag them to where I want them.
Problem Im having with doing this inS1 is it doesn’t use the midi standard of 0 to 127. It used percentage. Since 1986 I’ve used 112 velocity for my Kick drums starting point. I have no clue what that is in S1 without using my calculator. Why on earth did the developers chose a none standard dialogue for velocity?

Cubase has a simple dialogue that lets you choose any velocity and apply it to selected notes.

 

[Crossinger]

There we go:

(It's in the "Music Editing" Macro Menu)

 

[Jens]

Or just changing your settings permanently to MIDI (right click)

 

[Lukas]

Why on earth did the developers chose a none standard dialogue for velocity?

They didn't Studio One internally uses a format with much higher resolution than 80s MIDI (which is actually pretty limited). But as @Jens pointed out, you can easily switch between both formats.

 

[John Vere]

As always things I think it doesn’t do it does. Thanks everyone for pointing it out but honestly I tried to find it and couldn’t.