This is gold! I hadn’t realised that about the expression slider, it sounded like it was just affecting volume so I ignored it, but I guess It’s kind of affecting Gain..? and velocity in a way, that makes it more useful!
I have a midi keyboard but mostly use it to hear chords and notes rather than play them (I have limited finger position and music theory knowledge). I’m in the early stages of learning keyboard/theory though so I played with recording from it last night and really liked the result! felt so much more natural, the playing but also the playback (and way more intuitive than manually adjusting velocity in the DAW). I can imagine how it would help with giving things space in a mix.
Thanks for the taking the time on the advice and feedback, I really appreciate it and it’s already helped 👍🏽.
I did have a question about reverb though. With this kind of mix would you have reverb on each instrument trying to mimic it’s position in the room? Or would you touch up the reverb on them just relative to each other?