bug with pad channel ?

[funktree]

Hey Funktree, I set it up in front of me had a look at the behavior you're describing and I was seeing the same thing over here, however I think it's just an artifact of the way the spread works. In any Spread setting other than "1" I think you will have some notes taken out out the pool in different octave ranges. This is mostly to avoid having the Pad part take up too much range in the mix, so in some settings the lower registers will only play the root and some octaves only play 3rds and 5ths or something, I had Steve go through the code with me a while back to see exactly what each setting does but it's been over a year ago and it's not on the top of my mind, I will see what I can do to chase the info down and pass it along to you, but all I had to do to get it back to playing 5 voices was to set pad Spread to 1. It will show all the strum/spread bars as being equally spaced and all will have the same number of segments when strum is turned up.

Jesse,

Thanks for quick response. If I go with your explanation then how would I get the Pad channel playing open voicing with 5 voices ? If I understand your explanation NDLR decides to play 3 4 or 5 notes based on spread (Spread choice 3 actually works this way which is ok).
 
Some synths have only 4 or 6 (XFM sonicware) voices polyphony what If I want to use all the voices but spread to 2 octaves. Eg: Move the 3rd one octave higher which I think spread settings 5,6 would actually do.

Second issue. From the  manual (page 36 bottom) the spread feature is "ignored" for 4 voice pads thus 4 voices are always close voiced (Just checked and confirmed with JDXI). That is bummer too why I would need four voices to be always close voiced ? Wouldn't you spread even if you have 4 voice synth ? (most of the boutiques) Or utilizing poly chain with Elektron gear (Syntakt,,etc)  where I want to utilize only 4 Channels for chord(s) ? I suppose with syntakt I just move the 3rd/5th an octave up or the root octave down. But If I turn on inversions on NDLR then simulating "spread" with four voices it's nightmare. (the 3rd is not always the second voice).  Yes lazy me I can edit the sequenced notes if I hit record.  for four chords so be it.

So basically Ppl with boutiques (Roland) or utilizing poly chain due to monophonic gear (Volca, most of the elektron gear) cannot spread voices.