How do you change EVERY note's velocity in garageband to the SAME number?

I know this thread has been around a while, but it's a great question, and I just discovered how you can do exactly what the OP was looking for:

The key is that rather than click on one of the velocity markers, click and drag in the empty space.

This allows you to set any or all velocities at once, either to the same value, or ramping up or down linearly.

Just try it and you'll see what I mean.

Here is an update about this topic with some (hidden) functionality:

To set all the selected Notes to the same value:

• Select the notes in the Piano Roll
• Open the MIDI Draw Area so you can see what is going on
• Hold down the option key first ( ! ) and then drag the Velocity Slider in the left Piano Roll Inspector all the way to the right
• As you can see in the MIDI Draw Area, the velocity values of all MIDI Notes have been set to one equal value "127"
• While keeping the notes selected, you can drag the Velocity Slider to any value and all Notes will have that Velocity

Here are some other lesser know operations:

• Set all selected Notes to the Same End Point: Select the notes and drag the end position of one of the notes (Pointer Tool changes to the Resize Tool) and then ( ! ) hold down the shift key while dragging
• Set all selected Notes to the Same Length: Select the notes and drag the end position of one of the notes (Pointer Tool changes to the Resize Tool) and then ( ! ) hold down the shift+option key while dragging

Hope that helps

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DId you ever figure this out? I am working with the same issue and it is really annoying. It just seems like an oversight in the program. Why wouldn't you be able to highlight all notes and set them to a uniform velocity?

Please let me know either way...

Thanks!

P

Yes, in Logic you can enter the velocity numerically for a whole selection of notes.

You can change the length of a set of notes in GB, but it's relative too: Every note will be added the same amount, so if you add a quarter to a half note and a quarter note, the first will be three quarters long and the second one half.

Yeah, unfortunatley you cannot do a uniform change to a specified number. Its always relative. If you want all notes to be a certain number then you have to change each one individually. 😟 Such.a.pain.

found a quicker way than typing a vel for every note in. If you switch view from piano roll to step editor and scroll to the bottom option; "velocity". you can just click and drag the note to the correct velocity. still time consuming but i found if you are happy to be within 4 or 5 of your desired vel then it is faaaar quicker!

That may be the case; I can't remember if that control was there before version 10.

One additional note: if you find that the drag thing I described doesn't work, you can also select all the points and then scale them by dragging them all at once.

Hi, Jay! Sometimes I can get the click & drag to draw a line and sometimes I can't. I'm kind of going nuts trying to figure out what makes it work or not work. When it works it's great! Everything does what I want it to! But when it doesn't - it just doesn't do anything, or if I accidentally go over a velocity marker it changes that one note. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!

I found that this only works in the first region of the track. If you want to do the whole track you have to join the regions.

Also, you can't get the line to work if you're clicking where a note is being played. In order to get empty space, shorten the note in the piano roll, then draw in the empty space, then return the note to its original length.

It's as if they wrote the interface and never tried using it.

This works and thanks for the post, it helped me. However, you can only start before the first region -- if you try this after the first region, the option to select a velocity does not appear. Not sure if that's a bug, but it reduces the flexibility of this solution. It's all or one at a time.

Due to the way velocities work when you drag them up to the very top or bottom of the velocity panel, it's really easy to do it like this:

Sorry, GB doesn't offer that. I admit it's rather annoying.

DId you ever figure this out?

It was all figured out in the first place! 🙂