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Pedal doesn't hold arpeggiator?


danmathews
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I'm using an arpeggiated square lead. When I use the damper pedal, instead of continuing the arpeggio, as one would expect, it causes the square synth to hold as a solid block chord, not arpeggiated. Why does this happen, and is there any way to make the pedal hold the arpeggio?
 

I thought that maybe turning on "hold pedal" in the arpeggiator edit would fix the problem, but that doesn't do anything.

I also am not looking to use the Arpeggiator + Sys Setting function. I just want the damper to continue the arpeggio, as you would expect it to do.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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Welcome Dan.   You're in the wrong spot.  LOL.   "Hold pedal" under arpeggio edit is for playing the arpeggio pattern as connected sustained notes without needing to hold the damper pedal.  It works in conjunction with note length.  Set note length to zero.  Play an arpeggio with the piano tones.  While it's running switch the hold pedal setting on/off.  You'll see what I mean.   

 

Now to do what you want...(on the PX-5s front panel) press....  edit>stage setting>common edit>pedal 1 or 2>pedal target>set target to arp hold on/off (near the end of the list)

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Thanks, Brad! 

Appreciate the help on this.  That would be a perfect solution, except for one thing: I'm using 2 zones - one is an electric piano, and the other is the arpeggiated square lead.  Ideally I'd like the pedal to work as sustain for the electric piano, while simultaneously holding the arpeggio.  On my Nord Stage 2, this is just the default setting - when I layer a piano with an arpeggiator, the pedal sustains the piano but also holds the arpeggio.

Perhaps what I want just isn't possible with the PX-5S? Seems like the only solution would be to use 2 foot pedals at the same time - one for sustain and one for arp hold on/off.

 

Really appreciate the response!

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This might work since the pedal has 2 targets.  

 

1) At the step in the process where you assign arp hold to the pedal, press the zone + button to switch to T2.  Assign cc64 hold to target 2.  

 

2) Exit out completely and select square lead zone

 

3) Press edit>tone>amp>adjust release and decay level to it's lowest levels to kill the sustain the pedal is causing.  

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