i know it's another topic, but i would say that the very low latency of a good quality analog keyboard compared against a midi keyboard gives you the ability to more accurately time your key press and release, even if the audio latency of your daw were some how zero the midi latency still exists.himalaya wrote: However, when I play a real analogue vintage synth, there is no velocity and so the actual feel of playing such a synth is different. I dare to say, I like it a lot. There is a certain simplicity and a 'nostalgic' aura when playing such sounds. Perhaps this lack of velocity control is compensated by the direct access to each parameter via knobs and sliders - but that's another topic and not what I'm getting at.
(which is sometimes an issue of the keyboard scanning circuit, not just the midi transport!)
i find you can often create envelopes with the attack/release adjusted just right, or use a very short delay on the lfo at a slow rate. by changing the length of gating you can manually control the position of the envelope which is very similar to velocity!
this has an even bigger effect due to the fact you're always applying the new envelope triggers to the same voice in a monophonic synthesizer. if you left the release at the half-way position, the attack of the next note will start from that same half-way position rather than zero.
you can even combine the two. the piano playing style a lot of players might use is a whole different ballgame compared to the monophonic playing style.
having presets without velocity control isn't really a "feature", it's leaving a feature out. it doesn't provide anything. it's absolutely pointless.
if you could offer a way to adjust the velocity to the player's preference however that's something that is useful.
i think it would be great if you could provide "sub presets" where you could load a single sound and then flip through variations in modulation or control routing.
(xhip 2
)there are a few other synthesizers that already provide for that though.
