What is the problem?
Really love the Synth. The need to use shift while holding notes is a big workflow issue, as it occupies a hand holding the shift button. It’s hard to operate knobs at the same time. Hold and hold release being tied to shift is in the way of real-time filter work or wavetable action. The solution, which ought to be fixable in firmware, would be to add a “touch” mode for hold behavior. It would be a system setting selection: optional, so people who like the current behavior can choose it.
What should this feature achieve?
It would make real-time changes MUCH easier. By freeing up the hand that holds shift while playing, other actions can be combined with arp/sequence holds. It could be set to an arbitrary time (such as 3 seconds=hold), or, if it’s not too much trouble, user could select seconds until hold. The other key behavior is that held notes should also be released by touch…in this case, momentary touch would be sufficient to deactivate a held note.
Are there any workarounds?
I have seriously considered building a manual switch on the shift button. This particular behavior is so annoying. But this solution should be easy to add in a firmware update, and no weird contraptions necessary.
Any links to related discussions?
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Any references to other products?
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