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User – With the User mode, you are able to fully customize the layout of the controller to suit your preferences. You can adapt the internal commands from Studio One to better fit your needs, making this a great option for expert users who want to get the most out of their controller. While I certainly understand (and frankly, agree with) your frustration about the ATOM line, I'll point out that the Faderport 8 (and probably also the 16) is IMO a really solid piece of hardware and a very useful control surface. For Bitwig, this is an easy choice. Luanchpad X is already compatible, unlike the Atom, and Novation have a good reputation for keeping their hardware compatible over the years, unlike NI. The answer to this question is pretty much given to you in the description by PreSonus: “ATOM SQ: Hybrid MIDI Keyboard / Pad Performance and Production Controller.” One would have thought that 'musician owners' want to do good in this world. Corporate bureaucracy and incompetence seems to have won out here.
To me the big bonus of Atom SQ was the fact that in such a small form factor you can play SCALE only notes from a particular Scale, thus from 32 keys you were being able to play 4.5 and up to 6 octaves, depending on what scale you chose.i think their might be a technological limitation on how these pads (rubber) work - physics - whereby there can easily be some 'bounce' in the pads with the top of our fingers - and that the pads might indeed be super sensitive These products are unusable in my opinion. They get like 10/10 on design and logic (as a controller), but hitting the pads with any sense of nuance is absolutely atrocious. It's like asking someone to play the guitar, keyboards or drums with a hammer -- and even then: a high number of Double Triggers that completely kills any creative experience (with frustration). Yes, I have the latest firmware / drivers. Enjoy full expression with switchable polyphonic aftertouch, channel pressure, or MIDI CC message modes
Knobs – The knobs on the ATOM SQ are also completely customizable. You can use them to alter the pitch, velocity, or frequency of the different notes that you are playing so that you get the sound that you desire. These knobs are designed so that they can be rotated endlessly. This makes it that much easier to find the perfect sound that you desire. Intuitive and easy-to-use, ATOM is more than just an expressive MIDI pad controller: It's a production and performance controller as well. Use the velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads to play your virtual instruments live, with incredible expressiveness. Navigate your session without looking at the screen. Automate filter sweeps with four responsive knobs. Wherever inspiration takes you, ATOM lets you focus on the music.Shame, it really is a great controllers for the money and ideal for Bitwig. Polyphonic aftertouch, keyboard layouts, step sequencer layout, pad launcher, 8 nice feeling touch sensitive encoders, good screen etc. The easiest way to demonstrate/reproduced this design flaw is to aim for the CENTER of each pad. Which is entirely natural to me, and obviously also to the other people also griping about the double-triggering. I mean, the center of every pad is brighter in luminousity, and your brain just naturally aims for this brighter area. Removing velocity under 4% such as 3.9% (which is minimum it registers) makes you miss some of the notes as i stated. there's a lot about SQ that is designed really / really well -- and I hope it succeeds everywhere (Live, Logic, Bitwig, S1) etc.
So is there a "workaround" for this design flaw? Yes. Is it a good workaround? Personally, I don't think so. It's awkward when you need to hit pads in both the top and bottom row. Invariably, trying to hit a top/bottom edge works for some fingers in one of the rows, but not for other fingers that need to hit in the other row. This is because my "aim" is better if I try for the TOP edge of pads in the top row, but instead aim for the BOTTOM edge of pads in the bottom row. But this requires a finger that needs to hit a note in the top row and then move down to the next hit in the bottom row (or vice-versa) to travel much farther than feels natural, which is slower and requires a very curved hand position with lots of finger curling and uncurling. I have shelves of hardware and controllers (many of them pad controllers) just waiting for improvements (manufacturer promises) that never came. always 'need to get' MK2, MK3, on and on. Presonus isn’t an unfamiliar word for musicians and producers. We’ll gonna go through a comparison between Presonus Atom vs Atom SQ. As we know, both are MIDI controllers but vary in use shape, size, features & budget. Comparing Presonus Atom vs Atom SQ seems a little tough as both are good at what they are built for . So let’s go through the comparison to find out which one is best for you and why.That is similar to what I'm feeling as well, and I've also noticed less double triggers if I aim for the edge/corners of the pads. It's not exactly a workaround for many reasons, like you said, especially when you are not looking at the pads. I have an older Korg PadKontrol which sounds fine, and an Akai MPD232 which sounds fine, Even if PreSonus knew they were using low quality pad triggers, the fact that they won't even help us out with a (selectable) Double Trigger sensitivity filter (in Setup), means they have a complete disregard for real (paying) end users. The strange thing about the Launchpad which I'm somewhat concerned about is the quality control. It seems that nobody complains about the Launchpad Pro Mk3. It seems to be consistent. Like you can get several and they are all the same but the Launchpad X is not the case. Apparently you can play several side by side and the pads are not consistently the same. According to this guy whose videos have been super helpful by the way: Moreover the pads themselves are not equally easy or hard to trigger, some of them trigger more easily and others seem to be much stubborn. Can you also confirm this ?
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