This probably isn't the answer you are looking for. If you have a manual then it is null and void I remember old Ensoniq samplers having a weird way of handling controllers. I just tried looking up a manual for this one but only found ones for sale.. (no scans into PDF format) There is a remote possibility that there is a way of adjusting the average velocity output via a button combination maybe even keys pressed (I have a Roland EP-50 and for example to change the MIDI channel it is sending.. the MIDI button needs to be pressed and then a key that corresponds to the right channel.. it does the same thing for sending program changes and it's a good 4 years older than your keyboard. If you have a manual I'd be scouring it. good luck cheers Allan On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 21:19, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Hi, > > I have a MIDI card (Yamaha DB50XG) that I use as a performer for my old > Ensoniq controller. It works fine. However, it seems that the Ensoniq > keyboard sends the velocity information at only half what it should be > -- if I pound on the keyboard, the volume is increased from normal > playing, but still rather quiet. If I play a midi file through tse3play > or something similar, the volume is full. > > To get around this problem, I have two sysex files; I cat > volume_high.syx > /dev/midi when I want to use the keyboard, and cat > volume_low.syx > /dev/midi when I want to play midi files. The sysex's > each set the midi master volume to a level which is comfortable to use > with either. > > However, this feels like a kludge. In addition, sometimes annoying > things happen like after I've been playing the keyboard at its > comfortable volume, I visit a web page with a MIDI on it, and it plays > at 250% volume and blasts my ear out. Or I play a game like DOOM which > has hardware MIDI support and have to lunge for the volume on my mixer > to keep from disturbing the neighbours. :) > > The keyboard is a Ensoniq SDP-1 from 1986 or so. I tried the volume > setting on the keyboard in the hopes that it would modify the volume of > the notes sent to the midi card, but it seems to have no effect. (Is it > broken possibly?) > > I was thinking about hacking the mpu401 driver so that when midi data is > received externally, it rewrites the velocity somehow before it reaches > the midi device. Or if that isnt possible, when a file is played to > /dev/midi, after the file sets master volume, reset it to a lower value. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? This has been annoying me for a while now. :) > > Thanks,
