07-15-2025, 12:20 PM
This is the intended behavior, and why it's called the PAD part, and not "chord player" or something. There are other things out there that are good at just playing chords, and give you an infinite variety of chord choices. The PAD part wasn't designed for that. The long "gate" makes it most useful for long, evolving pad patches, and it is especially cool when using the interleaved polychain feature with multi-timbral synths while modulating the pad position. It is a unique feature set and admittedly not intended to be a "normal" chord player that simulates hands on a keyboard. So that's the background, but maybe we could look at having a mode that releases the PAD notes when the button is released. I personally feel it would be better to use a keyboard or something more purpose built for that. Isla Kordbot comes to mind, but many common MIDI keyboards have a chord mode.