While investigating a different possible bug, i’ve noticed that the Tracker doesn’t seem to receive or ignores velocity information sent from the DAW/Bitwig via USB.
I am not excluding that i may be doing something wrong!?
If i’m missing something obvious i would appreciate your input
Reproduction Steps
On the Tracker ensure that Config → General → Recording Options is set to Microtiming + Velocity And setup MIDI In to be via USB
Create an Instrument Track in Bitwig and add some MIDI Notes with Velocity.
Set the Tracker+ as Track Output Destination
Start Live-Recording on the Tracker
Play the Clip within the DAW
The notes get recorded and so does microtiming. Velocity is always 0 though.
There is also a possibility that i’m just doing it wrong?
I usually don’t send MIDI via USB and/or from a DAW to the Tracker.
I actually think this has been around for a lot longer than just now as well.
I vaguely remember trying this years ago and had encountered the same issue.
But since this is not my usual workflow i didn’t bother investigating it.
(yes sorry, if y’all feel better… you can blame me that i did not report this sooner )
Turns out this was me and my glorious setup being stupid
What was my mistake? I have multiple USB Channels/Routes to send MIDI from via USB. Turns out the one i was using had an outgoing filter that removed Velocity .
Velocity is recorded correctly. So there is no issue.
There’s a gotcha’s that i’ll share with you all:
If you try to record velocity from an sample instrument that does NOT have a sample assigned to it yet / is empty - make sure that you increase the Velocity from -Inf to anything else.
This will ensure that velocity can be recorded, eventhough your instrument slot is currently not occupied.