[Mike Rivers[_2_]]

On 12/8/2014 10:47 AM, Tom Evans wrote:
I thought that velocity and touch-sensitivity are determined by the
computer program and keyboard, as the MIDI interprets how hard and fast
you hit the keys on the keyboard.

If you're playing on a music keyboard and the keyboard supports
velocity, it will sense it and send that information to the computer.
The computer will pass it to the program that's playing the sound, and
if the sound supports it, then you'll hear it. If you're composing on
the computer alone, most composition programs will allow you to set
velocity for the note.

You have to consider the entire system, from input to output, and know
what data are supported by each link in the chain. Fortunately, MIDI has
been around long enough so that it's pretty fully implemented anywhere
that it's supported at all. It's not operating system dependent. And any
sound library that doesn't support playing dynamics isn't worth
consideration for most forms of music - but that's what you'll learn by
reading reviews of sound libraries, not about computers or computer
music in general.

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