Hanging notes

[Sovereign]

Okay, at this point I'm pretty much at a loss as I've tried almost anything.

I have the PA4x 76 keys model. Today I bought a new damper pedal, nothing special from M-Audio, after plugging it in at some point I noticed the following peculiarity.

All acoustic piano sounds sustain continuously until they die out, but only from G6 upwards. This issue does not affect all notes below G6. All notes below G6 work fine with the pedal and respond accordingly. So this concerns most acoustic ones in the first three pages of the factory presets. Some of the sounds are not affected, like the Clavi sounds. No GM/XG sounds are affected. Activating or releasing the damper pedal also has no effect on the hanging notes.

This problem does not affect other sounds, those work fine with or without the pedal over the full range of the keyboard.

I have already tried multiple factory restores to no effect, even redid the 3.10 update again. Turned it off, etc. Issue is still here. What the heck is this?

[Sovereign]

Okay, it seems the "no note off range" in the damper mode tab for many of the acoustic factory piano sounds is set to G6 (huh!?). Changing these to a higher value fixes the issue of notes hanging, but obviously it's not permanent since I can't change the factory defaults.

There's no global override for this right? I didn't have this issue in V2.2. Anyone else know if this is a bug in V3?

[AntonySharmman]

- The first thing that you adjust when inserting a new sustain pedal is the Global/pedal polarity + or - nothing to do with OS.
- By default all factory acoustic pianos have over G6 notes permanently sustained that can be easily adjusted in SOUND mode ,
per Piano Sound according to your tastes.
- You can save edited sounds in user banks but if you're completely sure for results then you can un-check Global/Factory protect
and save them modified in original positions.

Hope this helps

[Korghelper]

Real pianos don’t have dampers on those high notes. The note decays too quickly to need one. I guess the only issue is, does the sampled high notes have a loop, or are they one-shots that should stop once they get to the end of the sample..?

Those open high notes, BTW, are the source of the ‘sympathetic resonance’ you can hear in a real piano even when the sustain pedal isn’t down. There’s more with more notes played, and WAY more once you engage the sustain pedal, but it never goes totally away…