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Integration with hardware

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Integration with hardware

- [Instructor] The last thing I'd like to mention is using your hardware controller to its greatest potential with some of these different native instruments. First of all, one thing I want to point out is that velocity is something that almost every single MIDI controller is going to transmit. When you hit a note on a MIDI controller, you're telling it which note you're hitting and that it's a note that's turning on, and it also transmits how fast the key went down, which is how hard you hit it. Now, a lot of times, that information is switched to essentially control volume. But, it doesn't always work that way. Remember, velocity is just a number, and when we're in the world of synthesis, we can literally have anything control anything. And think about if you're playing a guitar or singing. If you sing louder, if you sing harder, it's not just changing the volume of the sound. There are things that are happening to it. There's more string tension. You hear buzzing. There's a lot…

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