Is the velocity curve adjustable in the SYNCHRON-ized Series?

[plurye]

I'm using pizzicato in one of the SYzd Chamber Strings All Strings patches, and would love to make the patch less sensitive to the touch. Is there a way to adjust the velocity curve in SYzd instruments?

Thanks,

Peter

[LGeist110]

First of all, it is important to know whether you are using velocity crossfades or not, because if so, you can adjust the sensitivity. If you are not using it, the corresponding dynamic layers are triggered without crossfading by the velocity. You should therefore definitely assign velocity as a controller for VelX. You can then adjust the sensitivity curve under the "Control" tab.

But remember that if you connect the velocity to VelX, you can no longer crossfade with the modwheel. It's either/or, so to speak. That's why I always build separate presets for short and long notes to use them in a few instances so that I can use both.

[Ben]

Under CONTROL you can map "Dynamic Range" to a CC of your choice. After that you can add this fader in the PERFORM view by clicking the + sign -> Mapped Control Parameters -> Dynamic Range.

Increase the value until you are happy with the result.

[Beat Kaufmann]

I can only support everything my predecessors have said.

Something you should also know about all short articulations in general: As soon as you use VelX to control the dynamics or otherwise play them statically at the same level, you move away from a certain naturalness. With short articulations, it is the small differences between the notes that give them a certain liveliness. So in many demos with samples, for example, it is the staccatos that have all the same volume that immediately reveal the piece in question to be a "sample demo", even though the rest may be very well done, so that you would otherwise not be able to detect this "sample-fact" so quickly.

If possible, short articulations should therefore always be controlled via the velocity and not with a curve (e.g. VelX).
See also: Natural 16th with samples

Beat

[plurye]

Bingo—thanks, Ben! It's called "Dynamic Compression" but otherwise that was what I was looking for. Thanks to all who responded—yes, I'm well aware of Velocity Xfade—it's one of the things that made me dive into the VSL universe in... 2005 or so (!). Much appreciated!

@Ben said:

Under CONTROL you can map "Dynamic Range" to a CC of your choice. After that you can add this fader in the PERFORM view by clicking the + sign -> Mapped Control Parameters -> Dynamic Range.

Increase the value until you are happy with the result.

[LGeist110]

@Beat-Kaufmann said:

I can only support everything my predecessors have said.

Something you should also know about all short articulations in general: As soon as you use VelX to control the dynamics or otherwise play them statically at the same level, you move away from a certain naturalness. With short articulations, it is the small differences between the notes that give them a certain liveliness. So in many demos with samples, for example, it is the staccatos that have all the same volume that immediately reveal the piece in question to be a "sample demo", even though the rest may be very well done, so that you would otherwise not be able to detect this "sample-fact" so quickly.

If possible, short articulations should therefore always be controlled via the velocity and not with a curve (e.g. VelX).
See also: Natural 16th with samples

Beat

You can also control the VelXF with the actual velocity instead of a CC. I always use this to achieve more dynamic and realistic results.

That's probably what you meant.