Disable keyboard velocity on playback (non-note-entry)
My keyboard (Novation Launchkey Mini Mk 3) has a "disable velocity" setting in its firmware. This works great when entering notes into the staff, but when hitting the keys on the keyboard /outside/ of note entry, MuseScore still picks up on the velocity with which I'm pressing the keys when playing sounds.
How do I tell MuseScore to ignore the velocity with which I'm hitting the keys altogether?
For an example use-case of this, I hit the notes outside of note playback to tell what I need to enter next, and it's extremely grating to have the sounds MuseScore produces reflect how hard I'm hitting the keys in this context
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Does the feature on your keyboard not work for MIDI out? I'd expect it to - so that regardless of how hard you press a key, it should only send a constant velocity (eg, 80). if it doesn't, that sounds like a limitation of the keyboard to report to the manufacturer. But that's where I'd expect to find such an option - on the sending device, not the receiving.
In reply to Does the feature on your… by Marc Sabatella
The keyboard is an Arturia KeyStep 37. When recording notes onto the staff, it records constant velocity. When notes aren't actively being added, however, it uses velocity.
I agree it feels like this is a keyboard limitation. Given the keyboard's price point, however ($230 USD), I can't imagine it's the only keyboard with this issue.
If anything has changed on the MuseScore end (or I'm missing something obvious about how keyboards work), I would love to know!
(This is very much a necropost, but I'm having the same issue 2.5 years later and stumbled upon this thread again. Sorry for not replying earlier!)