Possible to latch notes in S8PE?

Try using your finger.

Sustain MIDI controller event? Does depend if the synth responds to it of course.

Bristol, I didn't see a smiley, and your first post irritated me. I have been trying to figure out how to do what I asked for a long time. If you were just joking, OK. But I'm not in the mood for flip posts. Thank you for being serious in your second response.

Let me explain a little better what it is I want to do. I am preparing for live performance, not recording.

I want to trigger a pad and let it play indefinitely, leaving my hands free to tweak parameters such as cutoff, resonance, etc. It's easy to hold a note down and do that, but you waste one hand holding the note. And, you can't play an EWI while you're holding down a note. I need what would be called a "latch" on an analog synth. Then I can start the note(s), tweak params, and play EWI, and then latch another note, and so on. I want to create a basic pad-like bed that I can tweak over time (live), and also play other instruments and add parts. Kind of like looping without being stuck with short repetitive loops (think Live or P5).

I've been listening to Robert Rich for a year or so, and it sounds like he's latching some notes sometimes, and I want to do that in software. He has a massive analog synth with who knows how many switches, etc., and can do that in real time. As I said, Tassman can construct VA's that will turn on or off, producing what I want. I'd like to figure out how to do it either in Sonar using VSTi/DXi synths (Zebra2, Rapture, Z3ta+, etc.), or maybe using a VST plugin that will latch notes.

Another comparison that might explain it. It would be like an arpeggiator that would sustain one note. You can set an arp to spit out any pattern for any length of time. I want one that will do that with one note. You can latch the arp in P5, so let me latch a one-note arp, if that makes sense.

Great solution, Brock, I'll try that.

Thanks!