Setting the note length for MIDI or Synths in the Piano Roll requires double clicking the Volume knob and then accurately changing the knob. This requires many steps for an action that is rather frequent and could be achieved in a simpler way.
What do you want to achieve?
Easily set the length of notes in Piano Roll view. One way to do this could be to hold the pad and press the pad where you want the note to end.
Are there any workarounds?
Yes, But it takes a lot of time. if you set different length to different notes, it becomes really annoying.
@halabysenerman just to be sure, you are talking about MIDI notes only, right?
Do you mean press a step with one finger and then press the next steps to the right by moving another finger? This gesture is already established in the Play and it creates the same note on each pad pressed.
This gesture is available (currently nothing happens when you do this, other than create the second note. Should we switch the main solution proposed in the description?
@icaria36 It could be a different gesture or a mode selection (length setting vs repeat).
I was mostly thinking of the Synth notes (in MIDI mode) but I guess that it’s useful also with MIDI notes as well as samples…
What is the benefit of having a setting to switch the drag behavior when the “hold pad & press end note pad” action is available and it is what similar products use?
Note length is available in the MIDI mode (MIDI and synths). The Audio sequencer has sample start & end, but not notes. Let’s leave the samples out of this wish.
I would agree that a two-fingered begin-note and end-note press would be super beneficial to the workflow of the Play/+, both inidi notes and samples. This functionality is basically already in place with regard to selection (how you can hold shift, the beginning pad, and then the ending pad, and all of the pads in between are selected), so maybe the code for this could be used as a base? Also (and I thought about making a separate wish for this, but I think it fits better here), at the very least, I think the samples should have a note length parameter to mirror the midi notes’. All this would take would be a simple equation: (60000/[BPM])*([NOTE LENGTH]/64) = [SAMPLE LENGTH IN MS], where the note length is in increments of 64th notes (as its programmed on the midi side of things now). Right now, you just kind of have to guess and check to see if the note duration is correct The easiest workaround is to just trigger another sample in the same track where you want the initial sample to end, but this isn’t always desirable.
