While recording in Song Mode, continuous sounds (for example sustained notes or effect tails) get cut when the next pattern starts. This may be expected behavior, but from a musical workflow perspective it feels a bit limiting.
Since seamless continuation is already possible when triggered manually, it seems the engine can handle this case. An optional way to preserve continuous sounds between patterns in Song Mode would be a very welcome quality-of-life improvement.
Hmm… I don’t use song mode very much, so this wasn’t something that I’d considered before now but it’s probably the expected behavior. I agree that if there’s no workaround it’s pretty limiting, musically.
Submit a feature request is the best suggestion that I have right now, maybe someone else has a proper workaround though.
I’m assuming that it doesn’t matter what length of trig you’ve set or if there’s nothing else on the track?
this is typical with all MIDI sequencers i’ve encountered so far. unless you set a sound to be triggered as a one-shot that can decay over the end of a given pattern cycle, the sequencer is always going to reset to beat one when the next pattern starts. playing with the sustain/release of a patch is a way to cheat, if it’s a more padd-y kind of sound
Song Mode on the Digitone can be a bit misleading at first. I ran into the same cut notes issue and realized each pattern change retriggers voices instead of carrying them over. Long pads or drones get chopped unless they’re reprogrammed across patterns. Using longer patterns or resampling helped me work around it without breaking the flow of the track.