Hey Folks -
I just got Vienna Imperial and I'm absolutely blown away. However, I'm having some trouble getting the touch right. I want to at once ask for advice, and suggest to VSL that they allow us, in the advanced view, to draw the velocity response curve. I don't have a great feel for what the 'dynamic range' and 'midi sensitivity' settings mean in terms of what the velocity response curve looks like, and also how to compare that to what it 'should' be if I were at a real piano
In the meantime, any advice on how to tune this? Right now, I keep accidentally creating 'step functions' in the velocity response - almost like there is a sigmoidal curve - I have to play pretty hard to move up the loudness/louder samples curve, and then suddenly, bright, loud samples. Probably because I'm superposing two V-R curves that I can't see. I'm playing with it, but if anyone has some suggestions for how to go about it systematically, that would be great.
Ideally, it would work like this: You have a Velocity-Response curve 'graph' and then you play your keyboard, and a vertical line indicates the velocity that the Imperial is receiving (and holds it until the next note is played). Then you can see the correlation between your playing style, and the velocity transmitted. And you can tune your keyboard appropriately, if the keyboard's transmission curve is the problem. Then, on the VI side, you can shape the curve so that you get the desired relationship between your playing and the output.
Maybe Vienna Ensemble has this already, so I should just open an instance in VE? But I prefer the stand-alone engine, because its thinner, and I'm running a dedicated system for live practice - I want to reserve all the power for the piano engine!
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Eric