Arturia MicroLab [19/24] Pitch strip

4.2.2.2. Hold Button

• MicroLab's Hold button can be configured to work as an on/off switch ("toggle")

or a momentary switch ("gate") through the Option drop-down menu.

Toggle

means that you must press the Hold button once to engage sustain mode and

press it again to switch it off.

Gate

means that sustain mode is active when you

are pressing it and that it is immediately switched off the instant you release the

button. You can select what method works best for you.

4.2.2.3. Pitch Strip

• The Mode drop-down menu lets you switch MicroLab's Pitch strip on or off. The

default

Pitch Bend

setting means the strip will operate as a pitch bend controller.

Set this to

Off

you would like to deactivate the strip.

• Option menu lets you set how the Pitch strip behaves upon release. A traditional

pitch bend wheel (found on many synthesizers and MIDI Controllers) is normally

spring-loaded so it will snap back to its center position when released. The

default

Standard

option on MicroLab does exactly this—when you release the

touch strip, the pitch control returns to the middle position in your software. If

you would prefer the Pitch strip to maintain its position when you remove your

finger from the pitch strip, set this to

Hold

• Channel lets you select an output MIDI channel for the Pitch strip. Note that by

selecting

1-16

, you set the Pitch strip's output MIDI channel explicitly and this

does not have to be same as the MicroLab keyboard's output MIDI channel (for

example, keyboard can be on channel 1 but Pitch strip on channel 3). It is also

possible to have the Pitch strip "follow" whatever MIDI channel the keyboard is

using by selecting

Keyboard

from the drop-down menu.

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