Max MSP Tutorial 03a1: Keyboard Control [1]

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Exercises3a covers:
• changing your computer keyboard into a piano keyboard,
• clarification of note-on/note-off issues and the [noteout] object

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@mudithead Velocity is the amount of energy invested in the triggering of a note—e.g. how hard a key on a keyboard is hit. Thus velocity _is_ related to the volume of a note (the harder you hit a key on a piano, the louder the resulting sound).

Because we're dealing with MIDI, we're always dealing with 128 values—0-127. So a velocity of 127 is as hard as the key can be hit; a velocity of 0 is no hit at all.

[mudithead]

Great!!!

One thing, what are the units of velocity here? Like we say velocity of 127.

Secondly, is the velocity somehow related to the volume of the note? I m sure its not. But how am i suppose to look at velocity of a sound?