Tutorial Midi Velocity

Hello, I'm Jaime and I'm from Madrid, Spain With this video, I'm trying to show you the importance of accents and dynamics in our MIDI secuences. Through this example, I'll focus on MIDI velocity so I'm going to use a simple 2 bars drum pattern As you can see, I've got a drum pattern where every note has the same velocity value. As you may notice, it sounds a kind of "robotic" Lets see if we are able to "humanize" it and to get a better feeling just changing the MIDI velocities of the notes... First I'm going to mute all but the hi-hat to better perceive the effect It sounds very "robotic", doesn't it? Now I'm going to select all even eightnotes cause they're in the weak beats of the bar I'm going to lower its velocities to get a more "human like" performance Let's listen to it... As you may notice, it sounds now a little more "humanized" In a real performance, we tend to play the second half of the bars slightly softer than first one, so I'm goning to select that notes to lower its velocities Finally, even bars are also played a little lower than odd ones so we lower its velocities just a little, cause we want a subtle effect Now we unmute the previously silenced notes to do the same task with them We lower velocities on snare and kick notes on weak beats, paying an special attention to the snare's roll at the end of second bar Now we slightly lower the velocity of notes in even bars, just as we did with HH That's it. We've transformed a "robotic" rithm into a more "humanized" one just using MIDI velocities We could make it sound even better doing slight modifications to notes positions... but that would be material for another video :) I hope this will be useful for someone... Regards from Spain!