fdodds wrote:One minor question Hellfire, you keep referring to the track mixer as editing the 'velocity' of hits, but from some tests I've run that doesn't seem to be the case. Can you verify this?
I created a hi-hat track at full level on a pad set up with velocity modifying the pitch. When you lower the volume on the track mixer the pitch stays the same, velocity is not altered, the track is just a separate per-track gain stage that goes into effect before the audio gets routed to the program mixer.
When I route drum pads from a program into Reaper it completely bypasses the program mixer, but the track mixer still effects the volume of the audio being routed across all pads... It may be that the track mixer just lowers the sample volume for all pads?
In any case I'm glad it doesn't actually change velocity, as that would change the sound of drum kits using any velocity mapping or layered samples with different velocity ranges.
*also how did you move between sequences without leaving track mix with the hardware? I always use that drop down menu up the top which is a pain..
It doesn't alter the actual velocity of the recorded note. It does it as a modifier to the audio voices that track is sending to. It's like if you went into the list editor and did a tweak on the modifier column for Level of one of the notes, it wouldn't actually alter the note level data itself, just modifies the voice. This is pretty much what the track fader does now. I refer to it as velocity because what you are seeing on the track meters is the velocity of the note as it's hit. But it's reading the true note velocity as it is recorded, not the actual modified level.
