Hello there
I'm only getting into making my own sounds with Biotek (in Waveform) now for the first time. For what it's worth, I have Biotek 2.0.9 inside Waveform 9.
I am trying to create my own sounds, and am playing around with the oscillators, filters etc. in order to do so.
However, when I play notes on my midi keyboard, all the velocities are identical, no matter what I do.
If I use a different plugin, the velocities are fine, and are sensitive according to how I play the midi keyboard, but when I use Biotek, no matter what I do, the velocities (it appears) are ignored.
Can someone help me? Is there a setting that I'm missing?
Thanks for your kind help.
Biotek2 - How to set velocity from midi keyboard on/off
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Wolfram Franke Wolfram Franke https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222340
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- 79 posts since 25 Dec, 2009 from Germany
Hi,
Biotek is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to modulations, so it certainly reacts to velocity. For setting a sound up reacting to it, you should have a basic understanding of how the "modulation assignment" in Biotek works. You might watch this tutorial I made a couple of years ago for Biotek 1 (Biotek 2 looks a little different but it works the same there. The other tutorial videos in that series are also informative):
Velocity on Sound Volume:
To apply velocity to the sound level, click on the button "Velocity" on the "Sources 1" page and set the "Amp Volume" control on the "Filter / Amp" page to a positive value, i.e. 50%. When you are happy with the velocity depth, click the "Velocity" button again to leave the modulation assignment mode.
Velocity on Filter Cutoff:
To apply velocity to the depth of an envelope that changes filter cutoff (usually Envelope 3 is used for that), you must activate two assign buttons, the one in the "Envelope 3" section and (again) "Velocity" (there is a handy little "Vel" button right below the "Sources 1" button that does the same so that you don't have to switch pages all the time). Then increase "Filter 1 Cutoff" and/or "Filter 2 Cutoff" to your likeness. When you're done, click on both assign buttons again (the one in the "Envelope 3" section and the "Velocity" button) to leave the modulation assignment mode.
When you want to remove a certain modulation assignment, click the appropriate assign button(s) and double-click on the modulated parameter, i.e. Volume or Cutoff.
You can verify the modulation connections on the "Matrix" page. There is an entry for every modulation that is happening in a particular sound. You can also perform your modulation assignments here but it is far more tedious than using the "Assign" buttons. Don't worry that you might ever run out of matrix slots. Where other synthesizers might have a modulation matrix with 8, 16 or maybe 32 entries, Biotek offers up to 200 entries.
Best wishes,
Wolfram
Biotek is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to modulations, so it certainly reacts to velocity. For setting a sound up reacting to it, you should have a basic understanding of how the "modulation assignment" in Biotek works. You might watch this tutorial I made a couple of years ago for Biotek 1 (Biotek 2 looks a little different but it works the same there. The other tutorial videos in that series are also informative):
Velocity on Sound Volume:
To apply velocity to the sound level, click on the button "Velocity" on the "Sources 1" page and set the "Amp Volume" control on the "Filter / Amp" page to a positive value, i.e. 50%. When you are happy with the velocity depth, click the "Velocity" button again to leave the modulation assignment mode.
Velocity on Filter Cutoff:
To apply velocity to the depth of an envelope that changes filter cutoff (usually Envelope 3 is used for that), you must activate two assign buttons, the one in the "Envelope 3" section and (again) "Velocity" (there is a handy little "Vel" button right below the "Sources 1" button that does the same so that you don't have to switch pages all the time). Then increase "Filter 1 Cutoff" and/or "Filter 2 Cutoff" to your likeness. When you're done, click on both assign buttons again (the one in the "Envelope 3" section and the "Velocity" button) to leave the modulation assignment mode.
When you want to remove a certain modulation assignment, click the appropriate assign button(s) and double-click on the modulated parameter, i.e. Volume or Cutoff.
You can verify the modulation connections on the "Matrix" page. There is an entry for every modulation that is happening in a particular sound. You can also perform your modulation assignments here but it is far more tedious than using the "Assign" buttons. Don't worry that you might ever run out of matrix slots. Where other synthesizers might have a modulation matrix with 8, 16 or maybe 32 entries, Biotek offers up to 200 entries.
Best wishes,
Wolfram