Virtual Music Libraries For Professionals

As we all know, traditional MIDI only supports 127 velocity layers, if you want to break this limit, you need to invent a new standard to support more velocity layers. But the new standard will be hard to use on your current software and hardware. That means it is nearly impossible for you to break this barrier without investing a lot money and time on new gears

Sound Magic’s revolutionary HD Velocity Layers suggests a new way to achieve much more velocity layers using traditional MIDI. When you press a key, Sound Magic pianos not only read the current velocity of this note, but also will read velocities and aftertouch information from previous 2 or 3 notes to generate a new number, then the piano will use a set of algorithms by combining the number and current velocity together to get an actual velocity level for the pianos. In this way, Sound Magic pianos could supports up to 65536 actual velocity layers when using traditional MIDI signal.

Here are two demos showing the effect of HD Velocity Layers, Rendering with same MIDI file. The simple MIDI file has only one note repeated 12 times with the same velocity. You can hear a big difference between with and without HD Velocity Layers.

Please note HD Velocity Layers are completely different with using repetition samples with Round Robin. Repetition samples with Round Robin always has fixed pattern and fixed number of variations. But with HD Velocity Layers, you will have infinite variations.