Specific SF2 only plays at 200% velocity

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I'm using the LMMS 1.3.0 alpha and when I'm using this soundfont in a track - https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/2417 the notes always play at 200% velocity despite the notes actually being at 80%. This only occurs with this soundfont and no others. I actually only updated to the alpha build recently, and this soundfont worked perfectly fine with the stable build. I'd really like to use this soundfont in the alpha build though.

PapaMilky wrote:
Tue Jan 06, 2026 5:47 pm

I'm using the LMMS 1.3.0 alpha and when I'm using this soundfont in a track - https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/2417 the notes always play at 200% velocity despite the notes actually being at 80%. This only occurs with this soundfont and no others. I actually only updated to the alpha build recently, and this soundfont worked perfectly fine with the stable build. I'd really like to use this soundfont in the alpha build though.

Try this
go to the midi-tab on the instrument -Its the rightmost one.
If the velocity setting is 200, then set it to 64
You may need to restart
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musikbear wrote:
Thu Jan 08, 2026 5:54 am
PapaMilky wrote:
Tue Jan 06, 2026 5:47 pm

I'm using the LMMS 1.3.0 alpha and when I'm using this soundfont in a track - https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/2417 the notes always play at 200% velocity despite the notes actually being at 80%. This only occurs with this soundfont and no others. I actually only updated to the alpha build recently, and this soundfont worked perfectly fine with the stable build. I'd really like to use this soundfont in the alpha build though.

Try this
go to the midi-tab on the instrument -Its the rightmost one.
If the velocity setting is 200, then set it to 64
You may need to restart
Besides that, since you are new in Forum
Welcome PapaMilky !
Here are all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
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If you like to introduce yourself, to the community, go here:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4480

Sorry it's been a while. I did eventually find out the issue. I downloaded an sf2 editor (polyphone) to take a look at the soundfont itself, and it seems that the instruments had a fixed velocity of 127. (Turns out it wasn't actually at 200%) Why it wasn't fixed in 1.2.2? Not sure but maybe 1.2.2 just didn't read the fixed velocity correctly? Anyways I removed the fixed velocity and everything works fine now.