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about this update btw

Velo v2.2.1

Velo 2.2.1 — Play with feeling ⌨️🎹

Two ways to make Free play on your computer keyboard feel like a real instrument:

⌨️ QWERTY velocity — notes respond to how you play: faster passages get louder, easing off gets softer, instead of every note being the same flat hit. It drives the visualizer's note glow too.

🎹 Sustain pedal (Space) — turn it on and a note stops when you release its key; hold Space as a sustain pedal to let notes ring. No more every note hanging forever.

Both live in Settings → Playing and are off by default — flip them on and computer-keyboard playing stops feeling dry. (A real MIDI keyboard already sends its own velocity and pedal; these are for QWERTY players.)

🙏 Thanks

Big thanks to bartusek and roel for their help shaping the visualizer's customization in Velo 2.1 — the effects, colors and scenes are better because of you. 🙌

⚠️ "My antivirus says keylogger" — false positive

Velo reads your keyboard on purpose — that's how it plays. Antivirus can mistake that for a keylogger. Velo never records or sends your keystrokes — it only checks for updates. It's also unsigned (a code-signing cert costs money and Velo is free). → More info → Run anyway.

⬇️ Install

1. Download Velo-win.zip below
2. Extract anywhere
3. Run Velo.exe

Updating from an older version keeps your library and settings.

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Velo v2.2

Velo 2.2 — Play with feeling ⌨️

QWERTY velocity — when you play Free play on your computer keyboard, the notes now respond to how you play: faster passages get louder, easing off gets softer, instead of every note being the same flat hit. It drives the visualizer's note glow too.

Fully tunable in Settings → Playing → QWERTY velocity: gain per key, decay, and the soft-to-loud range. Off by default — flip it on and computer-keyboard playing stops feeling dry. (A real MIDI keyboard already sends its own velocity; this is for QWERTY players.)

🙏 Thanks

Big thanks to bartusek and roel for their help shaping the visualizer's customization in Velo 2.1 — the effects, colors and scenes are better because of you. 🙌

⚠️ "My antivirus says keylogger" — false positive

Velo reads your keyboard on purpose — that's how it plays. Antivirus can mistake that for a keylogger. Velo never records or sends your keystrokes — it only checks for updates. It's also unsigned (a code-signing cert costs money and Velo is free). → More info → Run anyway.

⬇️ Install

1. Download Velo-win.zip below
2. Extract anywhere
3. Run Velo.exe

Updating from an older version keeps your library and settings.

Velo v2.1

Velo 2.1 — the Visualizer 🎆

The falling-notes view is now a fully customizable light show. Ten scene wallpapers behind the notes, real effects (glow, particles, shockwaves, streaklets, chord-reactive bloom), a rainbow mode where notes cycle color forever (with adjustable spin speed), your own note & saber colors, adjustable darken / blur / vignette, and an auto-hiding gear with one-click presets — Clean · Velo · Cinema · Overdrive · Light. It stays smooth at 60fps and now drives Practice → Free play and Rhythm, not just Stage.

⚠️ "My antivirus says keylogger" — false positive

Velo reads your keyboard on purpose — that's how it turns typing into notes and plays into game pianos. That's technically the same trick a keylogger uses, so antivirus warns. Velo never records or sends your keystrokes — it only ever phones home to check for updates. It's also unsigned (a code-signing certificate costs money and Velo is free), so Windows shows an "unknown publisher" warning. → More info → Run anyway.

📌 Velo is now closed-source

From 2.1 on, Velo's code is closed. It's still free — just download and run. (Older GPL versions stay GPL.)

⬇️ Install

1. Download Velo-win.zip below
2. Extract anywhere
3. Run Velo.exe

Updating from an older version keeps your library and settings — backing up Documents\Velo once never hurts.

LETS GO SPAIN!!!!!!!

I'm just kidding hahha. GO SPAIN!

Velo does not accept Argentines on the server. Get out!

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