I would like to have a long portamento between notes when I play the keyboard legato, but not when I play staccato . When I turn up the portamento on an instrument track with play mode = legato, every keyboard note is affected whether it’s being played Legato or staccato. I have a feeling it’s not possible, but wanted to throw it out here to see if anybody could help.
For that to happen I imagine the OS would need to differentiate between a staccato attack and legato AND THEN be able to apply the modifier to the legato but not the staccato…seemingly simple but I imagine a taller order
And I imagine this reply didn’t help at all but since no one else tried I guess that’s the best 2 cts atm 
Thanks for taking a stab at it @yellow_eyez
The saving grace is that the keyboard does actually play legato when you set the mode to legato and turn portamento off. I was hoping that turning up portamento in legato mode would increase the glide time for only the legato notes. But instead, it increases the glide time for all notes whether or not they are played legato.
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The way I do it is hit record and pitchbend during the selected steps and do retakes until it’s nice. I was initially hoping you can modulate portamento time as a step component but that does not look to be possible atm. The drawback of pitchbending method is you can’t edit individual expressions in a bar, you either perfect the whole bar if you’re doing more than one, or you delete and redo. Overdubbing the modulations to overwrite bad parts when one of your parts is good sometimes works, sometimes it’s weird. It’s because whatever you record has to be longer than whatever it’s overdubbing so none of the overdubbed part is preserved.
update: I was wrong, there’s a step component specifically for modulating portamento time, it’s the white key to the left of 6. hold shift, tap the desired step, hit that key to configure the portamento parameter lock for the selected steps.
Good to know @Worldwave , thanks for sharing your workflow for this. I tried what you suggested (recording a pitch bend while the track is playing) and it works fine. I’m not sure where the pitch bend modulation gets recorded, but it works.
Maybe someone can explain. Do modulations (like pitch bend or tweaking knobs in the mixer section) get recorded onto the instrument track or the auxiliary track.
I’m asking because I once accidentally recorded a panning tweak and didn’t know how to erase it.
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