MIDI ► CV and velocity: a question

Hello there and friendly greetings y’all! Please, forgive my very noob question but I’m banging my head on a wall…

Where and how I use the VELOCITY output of MIDI ► CV module? I got the bad feeling that it is something quite simple that I am missing but still I am missing it.

Please, any help is gold here! I almost completely set up my keyboard but I cannot set the keys velocity and now it sounds like a non-weighted synth…

Thanks in advance!

You can use the velocity for whatever you want, but probably the most common thing you’d use it for is to control that attack phase of an ADSR.

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… or you can use it for a vca ( e.g. make a sound louder with more velocity)
or cutoff of a filter ( e.g. make a sound brighter with more velocity)
… or … ( put here any modulation target …)

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I’d say the most common single targets are filter cutoff and volume, indeed. Attack phase of an ADSR way behind those.

So far the only thing I want to do is to use the touch-sensitive keys of my keyboard. BTW it is an Impact LX49+

I’ve tried what @pachde said but the cyan led on the MIDI ► CV is constantly on and I don’t get any changes, the keyboard behave as if it has not touch-sensitive keys.

Now I’ll try @rsmus7 suggestion and will mix and match things and see.

In the meanwhile thank you two! :smiley: If someone got any other suggestion, it is welcome!

Easy test : (Hit some keys)

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Thank you for your example. It works.

But now, for some reasons, if I hit a key a little bit hard, the sound do not fade away as if the release do not work at all.

I am sorry, I am sure I am not explaining myself at the best, please be patient… :frowning:

EDIT I attached my vcv file so that everyone can have a look and see what’s not working. Maybe it helps… template.vcv (11.3 KB)

Removed (almost) everything and made a basic example

Skware - template Small.vcv (1.5 KB)

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Oh, thank you so much @Yeager !! Now I see that the thing was not so intuitive as I imagined! Thank you everyone! :smiley:

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I have the Impact 61 keys and controller, love it for VCV. Best of luck getting your midi groove on.