SmartLegato is an intuitive programming feature that enhances playability.
SmartLegato senses your playing style and knows whether you're playing chords or a single legato-style line, and will adjust accordingly. So what is legato technology? Legato technology enhances the realism when you want to create smooth, connected musical passages. When you play and hold a note, then play a second note while still holding the first note, the first note will stop sounding automatically. This ensures a "mono" or "unison" musical line where you don't get irregular transitions between notes. But we always thought it inconvenient not to be able to play chords fluidly. If you try, you get note stealing. You might be able to use chords with some legato technologies, but only in a limited fashion. You would have to play the chord, release that chord, and then play another chord. This results in a rather "staccato", or at best, "detaché" sound - no connection or fluidity between the chords. Trying to play chords in any other way would inevitably result in note stealing. But SmartLegato changes the game:
-Play Chords! When you turn SmartLegato on, true legato technology is used when playing legato, non-chord passages as described above. And, with SmartLegato, we can also play fluidly-moving chords perfectly without any note stealing. This is because SmartLegato knows when to engage or disengage its legato feature depending on how you are playing.
-Set Attack Amount You might want the attacks between legato note transitions to be different depending on what style of phrase you are playing. Additionally, SmartLegato® will automatically adjust the attack amount depending on the articulation you choose. For example; if you set the SmartLegato® attacks using the Accent pp articulation, SmartLegato® will then adjust the attack for all of the other articulations so that your legato note transitions are closely matched. If this automatic adjustment did not take place, the note transitions would sound too slow if you switched to the Adagio or Smooth articulations, and too fast for the Accent ff articulation. However, if you should want the note transitions' attacks to change depending on the articulation chosen, (slow for adagio and smooth, and faster for Accent pp, Accent mf, and Accent ff) then all you have to do is to set the legato attack amount to 0. And even if you turn SmartLegato® off, the attacks you set will still apply. This way, you get a true polyphonic legato style. (Please note that setting the attack amounts for legato note transitions is not available for the short notes, pizzicato or harmonics articulations.)

Selecting SmartLegato
Simply click the "SmartLegato" button to turn SmartLegato on or off.



Setting Legato Note Transition Attack Amount
Choose "Set SmartLegato® Attack" from the "SETTINGS" menu while in the Smooth, Accent pp, Accent mf, or Accent FF Articulations". Please note that you must be using one of these articulations to set the legato note transitions attack.



Use the LegAttack knob to set the Legato Note Transition Attack Amount
After you have chosen "Set SmartLegato® Attack while in the Smooth, Accent pp, Accent mf, or Accent FF Articulations" the "LegAttk" knob will show. Higher values will give you slower attacks. Please note that you should not change articulations while setting the attacks here. Once you are done, then click "DONE_SETTINGS". Now, if you change ariticulations, the legato note transitions will automatically change to match the attacks you set. Also, if you turn off SmartLegato®, the attacks you set will still work when you play in a legato style.


Here's a nifty tip:
Load a "combinaition" instrument that has, for example, violins, violas, cellos and basses. Play a triad with your right hand, and an octave with your left hand all at the same time. You'll hear a big fat string chord. Now, continue holding the left hand octave, and release your right hand. You'll still hear the left hand octave. Then, while still holding the left hand octave, play a mono, legato-style line with your right hand. SmartLegato will actually engage true legato technology with the line being played by your right hand while maintaining the held octave on your left hand! All of this happens without ever having to change patches, use a keyswitch, controller, or anything else.