If you are going to put velocity curves on the controller itself then you are going to lose
responsiveness, no? Midi only supports a 7 bit velocity: if the curve is on the controller
then a non-linear curve implies some of the 127 values have to be duplicated and some
will not be used - that implies you have lost sensitivity in the touch response.

If is far wiser to to pass a full linear resolution to the application, let it convert that into
an internal curve that generates floats and can thus provide a far smoother curve. It also
makes programming the controller simpler as it will be able to avoid implementing a
feature that the app/softsynth has to do anyway and can probably do better than MIDI.

Regards, nick.

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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:50:48 +0200
From: f.rech@yahoo.fr
To: rosea.grammostola@gmail.com
CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] From audio synthesis environment to plugin

rosea grammostola a écrit : 
Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
  
rosea grammostola wrote:
  
    
@ Atte, Any results from your research yet?
    
      
supercollider seems like a no go

pd has some possibilitites, the easiest would be to make the 
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/pdvst/ work on linux. I mailed the 
author, but didn't get a reply back just yet.

csound has csoundvst, which should work, just have to figure out where I 
can download it (there seems to be no official releases, or something)...

So csound seems closest...

  
    
A little OT, but when you talk about VST (hardware) hosts (see other 
thread), you got a lot of replies and also comments that we don't need 
VST cause we have enough plugins...
 
But you don't get many response, when you actually have a idea to 
improve the plugin situation in a GPL manner...

Maybe people think the plugin situation on Linux doesn't have to be 
improved, but I can't believe (sorry about that) a zynaddsubfx (which 
acts pretty unstable with jack and have clicks and pops) and plugins 
like hexter can satisfy the needs of, let's call them professionals.

\r
A little delayed, but like to know :

What Linux applis are you using to have sound for "replace" :
-piano
-electric piano
-trompet
-sax
-trombone
-drums
-violin
-etc ?

Personnaly, don't use VST, but orchestration is really reduced in terms of instruments,
let say it's a good opportunity to improve my guitar and bass play !

Thanks for answers,
Fred

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