Perhaps I’m missing something obvious, but I do not see a release dial in the Amp section of the drum machine. I only see hold and decay dials. The decay can act like a release (in a way), but if the hold is set to 0 and I then hold the pad down to trigger a sample, it will not play indefinitely while held down if the decay time is short. This is why a release knob would be good to have (like on the sampler track). Having a release would allow me to set the release duration short, and then I could hold down the pad down and play the sample and have the sample stop immediately when the pad is released.
Not a deal breaker, but it seems to be an odd oversight.
I’m operating under the assumption, that the term “drum machine” was deliberately chosen to delineate it from a “drum sampler” or “drum synthesizer”.
If you understand the history of the classic drum machines of Roland x0x, Yamaha Rx, Lynn, Oberheim, Drumulator, then the controls of the new Cubase component seem to make sense.
If you’re looking for more feature richness, there’s Groove Agent or if wanting to have ultimate power and flexibility something like HALion.
Not every music software has to do everything - especially in their very first release.
Using terms like “oversight”, because it doesn’t have some arbitrary feature of a pretty humongous potential feature universe seems unfairly belittling something that’s a very nice addition to the universe of beat making software - especially in a Cubase/Nuendo context.
An alternative to such negative vibes in a post would be to commend the developers for things you like about it, and then to post a feature request in the format recommended for this forum.
Umm ok… I never considered that inquiring whether I missed a release setting within the amp section in this software drum machine (that already contains attack, decay and hold) would be inferred as expecting it to “do everything,” nor did I anticipate that my commentary of a usage scenario, or word choice of “oversight” would be a triggering/negative term for potential readers. For that, I offer my deepest apologies for your hurt sensibilities.