If the sound generating device you'd like to control supports it, every key on Lumatone allows you to play with excellent velocity sensitivity response. In developing Lumatone's velocity response, we compared the action of several of our favourite semi-weighted midi controllers to design the ideal velocity response for our keys.
That said, if you're finding the response is too sensitive or not sensitive enough, you can easily edit Lumatone's velocity curve. Velocity curves are saved at the mapping level of Lumatone, meaning you can save different velocity curves to different mappings and presets, depending on your intended use for them.
All presets that ship by default with Lumatone are saved with a linear, default velocity curve. You can manipulate this using our Lumatone Editor software.
The velocity curve is a visual representation of the strength of a keypress (the X-axis) against the velocity value sent by MIDI (the Y-axis).
We encourage you to experiment with velocity curves to get the response most suited to you. You can select one of three drawing modes to define your velocity curves in the top left of the curves section:
- Free Drawing - simply draw a curve with your mouse from left to right.
- Linear - Click and drag control points to draw point-to-point linear lines that represent your desired velocity curve
- Quadratic - Click and drag control points that draw smoothed, bezier-style curves between points to define your desired velocity curve
Remember that velocity curves are saved with each mapping, so if you're editing curves, you'll have to save your updated mapping to your Lumatone.
Learn more about creating and editing mappings.
