High Resolution Midi?

[AB9]

Paul - I do not think you are rude at all.   And you can be 1000 percent correct!   I noticed that there are some keyboards being made with this high resolution and I was curious if Cakewalk was doing something about it.  Perhaps the velocity aspect is beyond human comprehension.  But I also do not think it is all about whether someone can repeat the velocity again and again at such fine points, but whether there is any added realism to the result.   If there is truly no added realism in the result, then I would think that such would eventually not be a selling point for those keyboards, at least on the velocity issue.

May be that there is another benefit to the advanced midi that goes beyond just the velocity issue.  (I think you wrote about this!)

Thank you for chiming in on this!

Edited June 2 by AB9

[User 905133]

2 hours ago, Paul DeRocco said:

. . . high resolution velocity is pointless. If you took the best MIDI keyboard every built, with only 7-bit velocity output, Horowitz himself wouldn't have been able to play middle C with velocity 64 ten times in a row. No human could ever do that. If you had a keyboard that produced true 14-bit measurements, and then replaced the bottom seven bits with actual random numbers, no player would be able to tell the difference.

But just think about how you could map all those additional values.  Yes, for a piano sound it might be unnecessary, but for a multisampled sound that spanned the full range of an orchestra (for example) accessible via velocity mapping / switching it would be amazing. If you think of velocity as only being mapped to one or two parameters (e.g., loudness and timbre) to affect a single basic sound, having all those intermediate values is overkill for sure.  But think of the possibilities on a larger sonic scale (or spectrum).  Also, different velocity ranges could be mapped to emphasize different effects.  

Edited June 2 by User 905133
fixed typo