This is probably a newbie question, but I'm a bit confused on how and when to use Velocity Crossfade. The way I understand it, when I turn on velocity crossfade and assign a continuous controller to it, VI now ignores the velocity that the actual key is outputting and simply uses whatever the velocity is currently set to via the position of the continuous controller.
This works great for sustained notes (like brass) for crescendos because it changes the timbre as it gets louder, and therefore much more realistic than simply increasing volume. But I think you lose some expressiveness because now the notes don't have that natural velocity variation when you play normal lines (i.e. not sustained/crescendos), like a real musician would have. So it seems you lose something very important when you turn it on.
First of all - is my description of velocity x-fade correct?
If it is correct, is there any way to assign a controller or key to turn velocity-xfade on/off? It seems like I want it off if I'm playing normally, but I want it on when I want to do swells/crescendos.
Any suggestion/corrections are much appreciated... thanks!
Andy
