Until now I’ve always disabled keyboard velocity but lately I’ve been tinkering with it to try and play softer bits by using “Soft” as velocity setting instead of “Off”.
The thing is that I was feeling even the slower touches came up a bit louder than I’d like so I’ve plugged the OP-1 field to Logic Pro and I see the lowest velocity I can perform on any key produces a value of 9 instead of the 1 I would have expected. Is that normal behaviour?
I understand the OP-1 keys have very little travel and maybe this is as good as it can get (I’m no expert) but wanted to check just to be sure I’m not missing some setting or something.
i think its normal although i can’t 100% confirm. the velocity implementation is clever in that the keys themselves are not velocity sensitive but the gyroscope in the op1f is sensitive enough that they were able to read data from the gyro to impute velocity
Oh wow, is that how they do it?! I knew that was a trick on smartphone apps but I didn’t expect the OP-1 to do the same… even though now that I think about it the keys are clearly regular computer-like key switches so it makes perfect sense.
I’m honestly pretty impressed you were able to get a 9. If you look at the grand scheme of it being within a 127 value range, that’s actually really good. Most high end sample libraries for example would have no difference between 1 and 9. I use the velocity all the time as I never did like the on/off feel especially when performing live and you needed to play a quieter section for example.
@djcuvcuv I always wondered how they did the velocity. That’s an insanely sensitive gyroscope.
Interesting! My “issue” (if you can call it that) is when performing on the OP-1 standalone, either playing a synth or a sample (in which velocity just adjusts the gain) even the softest of touches feels a bit too loud.
The way I’m working around it is by duplicating the instrument preset and shifting the gain down quite a bit on the envelope page in one of the instances so I end up having the same instrument duplicated in 2 banks, one with normal gain and one much quieter for the quiet bits. It’s not ideal having to swap instruments but I’m mapping it in my mind like the octave shifter but for keyboard sensitivity, if that makes sense? Does the trick so far.
thats a clever way very nice. have you adjusted your global settings to velocity = hard?
velocity = off (max velocity)
velocity = soft (you can play softly and still attain a high velocity)
velocity = hard (you must play hard to attain high velocity, therefore this is the most sensitive setting)
wow funny you got lower values on soft. that is the opposite of what id expect. given the value is from 2^0 to 2^8 getting as low as 2^3 - 2^4 range is very very low, i dont think i could aurally distinguish between 2^2 and 2^4
