Catch-Up/Pass-Through/Track

UDO Audio Gear Feature Wishlist
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Catch-Up/Pass-Through/Track

This has been raised before in a post from 2022, but I feel it really needs to be brought to the attention of UDO - for live performance, it’s one of the most critical missing features across the Super series.

Currently, I believe most controls operate in jump mode - touch a fader, and the parameter snaps to its physical position. Very jarring and does not work with performing live with the synth.

What I believe could be an inspiration for the solution:

The Moog Little Phatty offers three modes:

- **Snap** - current UDO behaviour

- **Pass-Thru** - parameter holds until the control physically sweeps through the stored value

- **Track** — value moves gently in the direcrion of the control until they converge

On the visual side, the Little Phatty pairs this with LED rings showing where the *stored* value currently sits relative to the knob’s physical position - instant feedback, no screen required!!

Given UDO’s emphasis on ‘The Power of Play’, the cstch up feature feels like a natural firmware priority. Is it on the roadmap?

In relation to the moog Little phatty’s led rings, I feel this design would pair incredibly well in future UDO instruments.

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Sadly I don’t believe UDO reads this forum. It’s a missed opportunity on their part. They could be using this to crowd source development but I’m pretty sure they just want you to email customer support.

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It’s weird how the Minimoog Voyager and the Little Phatty solved so many issues and established many standard worthy features. I have Minimoog Voyager and it still baffles me how it has some OS/Screen/MIDI features some newer synths lack.

Another one is independent up and down bend ranges. It could be cool doing it with a shift functionality in the Super series.

And a second great thing the Voyager does, copied in part by DSI/Sequential is that it displays current vs stored values. So you can reverse engineer the panel from a stored program. I still think this is something UDO should also look into implementing as the compare sounds already does something similar data wise but not UI wise.

I for one do think UDO team reads the forum, it’s not a huge flow of posts. But being a smaller company I’m sure they can’t go and respond to each post.