Uneven piano velocities/volumes

[prjacobs]

Unfortunately, almost all of the sampled pianos I've used contain uneven velocities. For example, in Mach V 2, the German Grand's D right above middle C it too loud with a 63 on velocity and too soft at 62. It would be one thing if the note wasn't right in the middle of the playable range, but I can't understand how something so blatantly poor could make the cut.

[tonyton]

Thanks to all ad particularly to MLC for looking at the file. I've just opened it up and, yes, there are a lot of windows open (oops!) - before starting on this version of the sequence it was acting as a backing track for a song - I'm now doing a version without vocals in which the piano is in the foreground but all the windows remained open after having deleted the vocal tracks. So I can cut down all those and see what happens - I wonder if I need to purge the undo history to release a bit more headroom? I've stuck with the M5 Grand Piano because I'm not too keen on the others which seem less natural.If necc I can create the track with an external module but it seems a shame when I have potentially superior (and more expensive) samples in M5 and GPO.

[tonyton]

Unfortunately, almost all of the sampled pianos I've used contain uneven velocities. For example, in Mach V 2, the German Grand's D right above middle C it too loud with a 63 on velocity and too soft at 62. It would be one thing if the note wasn't right in the middle of the playable range, but I can't understand how something so blatantly poor could make the cut.

This is really interesting - and rather disappointing - at least it's not just me!

[Tim]

I just did a few 5 minute piano solo scores that came in under 1BM ....

Hey MLC:

You're not only very helpful, but you are REALLY critical of your own work!!

Too rich!