The FLS velocity envelope actually helps a little with the problem of having to hit the pads too hard.
Have it set to this on the MTP 1 port that my drum notes come in on.
So the higher values are triggered a little easier. The softest hits are brought up a little bit. The pads can’t send a velocity less than 32. That’s not too bad though. You can see in the pic the vertical line is hitting at the softest (32). I brought it up a touch and the med hits are louder because they are hard to hit.
I got the full on velocity figured too. And I added a 100 velocity to it.
So I used this formula on a dedicated button, that lights up when the flag is on:
Put another button with pf=pf^1 for my 100 velocity toggle.
So every pad’s note-on translator has this rule:
If both toggles are off, the velocity is free to flow from input to output. If one of them is on, it sends at exactly that value. Each one cancels the other one out when hitting the button, and cancels their light on the controller. Done. Now onto transposing.
The forum is giving me crap for posting too much. 
I’ll be out of your hair soon enough. Just real excited about this.
These new discoveries are turning my frown 
upside down 