Using Accent as a modulator...

[yeskeys]

I can't seem to get accented steps in the sequencer to actually affect anything when assigning it in the matrix.
For instance, I'll initialize a sequence, then tie one note to 16 steps.  I'll manually press the accent row in the sequencer at some random point.  In the matrix I assign Velocity to the filter I'm using and crank up the mod amount.  No audible perception of the filter opening when that step is played by the sequencer.

If I'm correct, the filter should open up some when the first accented step plays.

I'm using the latest firmware.  Am I missing something?

Also...does anyone know if the value of the accent - the amount - can be modified after it's recorded or assigned?


Thanks!

[yeskeys]

A little more testing has confirmed that the accent row doesn't do anything unless there's a note-on event in the sequencer at the same step.

However, it seems like the amount of modulation for each accent is fixed, I can't get any variance when I step enter notes with successively more forceful velocity amounts.

Experimentation continues...

[DrJustice]

The sequencer has a fixed velocity for the accented notes and another velocity non-accented notes.

The accented notes always have velocity = 127. The non accented notes have a velocity = 64 if you use the Play button, and whatever velocity you hit the keys with if you use the keyboard to start the sequence.

Note that if you use Key Hold or legato, only the first velocity captured will be used for the non accented notes - you'll have to switch off Key Hold or let go of all notes to capture a new velocity value (also for the arpeggiator). This unfamiliar behaviour will hopefully be changed to provide velocity capture for the last played note, especially since according to Arturia it's supposed to work like it does for other synths:

"The key hold keeps the last note played properties:

- Note
- Velocity
..."

[yeskeys]

Thanks for the info.  That's a bummer and an issue that should be addressed.  A sequencer that doesn't record note velocity???

Have a great day!
Eric

[BobTheDog]

It does record velocity, if you play non legato notes then velocity is recorded, it's just the legato stuff it has a problem with.

[Howard Scarr]

That's the nature of MIDI note velocity, not a bug or an oversight ("issue to be addressed"). You can't have velocity without the note.

[DrJustice]

It's not "the nature of MIDI note velocity" to only have the values  or 64 and 127. Perhaps that's not what you meant (the velocity issue as discussed is not about legato)?

[Howard Scarr]

Too hot in my under-the-roof studio to check whether Matrixbrute records legato notes correctly. Does it or doesn't it?