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The Velocity Map Editor

18-5

When you select a parameter, the small crosshairs move to indicate the position on the curve of

the dynamic level represented by that parameter. Each of the eight levels is marked on the curve

by a small dot. The crosshairs jump to one of the dots when you select the corresponding

parameter. The dots always have the same vertical location, but move to the left or right

depending on the velocity value assigned to them. The farther to the right that one of these dots

is located, the higher the attack velocity value required to play a note at that level. As the curve

suggests, velocity values between those set for the eight dynamic levels will be remapped to a

new velocity represented by the height of the curve.

As you change the value of the currently selected parameter, the shape of the curve changes to

reßect the new value. As an example, letÕs assume that youÕre driving a MIDI slave synth from

the K2600Õs MIDI Out port, and you get full-amplitude sounds from the slave, even when you

play softly on your MIDI controller. To Þx this, youÕd edit the map to give it a harder bias (or use

one of the preset MIDI maps with a hard bias). That is, you want to have to strike your

controllerÕs keys harder to get full amplitudes.

The diagram below shows a hard-biased linear map similar to the

Hard3

map. Although the

even progression from low to high remapped values remains, the entire curve is shifted so that a

given input velocity value will remap to a lower value.

MIDI velocity map (1 Linear)

0 31 63 95 127

Attack velocity value

received by map

approximate amplitude

levels of remapped

velocity values

ppp

Hard-biased MIDI map

(17 Hardest Linear)