PAD behaviour is naff

[MKS30]

I cannot find anyway to change this:

You enable the PAD and it sends a note on message that lasts forever (it will play the last used scale degree)

You play a second degree and it will initiate a note off event for the initial PAD notes on and that also lasts forever.

So on and so forth....

How can we play normal music like this, surely there should be a note off event when we release the scale degree...just like any controller.

The only thing that gets close to normal behaviour is the Position control

Are we really relegated to creating drone music?

[Jesse Johannesen]

The Pad part has multiple strum options, one of which is constant on notes like you are describing, there are others that play multiple short notes. I don't think there is a "single short note" selection but there may be, I would look at the strum setting in the manual and see if that gets you closer to where you're wanting to go.

[MKS30]

Normal behaviour is what is missing....attack = 'note on' release = 'note off'

This constant 'note on' should be an option, not the default.

Please ask the Developer why this is so?

This is the actual reason NDLR productions on YouTube are so similarly <boring>

[Darryl]

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.

[MKS30]

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.

Using the degree buttons makes for very precise and rapid triggering, but it's always that last press of the Infinity PAD           

I use it exclusively in Bitwig with Poly-Chain feeding 4 tracks on seperate channels, really wish we could toggle the round robin to always trigger the 4 channels

A combination of 'No infinity PAD' + 'No Round Robin' gives us more flexibility in the DAW and I say this as a synth junky boomer myself  

Thanks

[Darryl]

Not to change the subject, but on a related topic... I wish we could add more buttons, but short of that, lets say you could press MENU+Shift then press chord deg I to play only the first PAD channel, deg II for the first and second, etc, then deg V for all parts round robin? Something like that.

There's another feature on the list we'd like to implement one day, which also requires some convoluted button presses. The idea to to "lock" a motif note pool. So you are playing along, everything is clicking but you want one motif to continue playing the same notes when you change chords. So maybe press and hold MENU+Shift+Moftif 1 or 2 button and it will lock it's note pool. There are other ways to achieve the same effect by using chromatic mode, but its tricky. This is an essential function for nailing the Tangerine Dream sound, and of course will result in some tension/dissonance.

In either case, we'll have to make some changes to the key press code to change on release rather than on press.