A little tip for Chorda players

 You can get something like a guitar strumming effect using any preset where the sounds have a short duration (make your own?).  (Actually if the sound is loud at the start but fades down to a low level quickly that will work too.)

It works best in Lead mode when a chord preset which has the chords you want has been selected (any sound). Now you choose your Lead preset (with the short sounds). The first press of a pad gives a sort of initial bass note and then the bridge can be strummed for the chord that would be played on that pad in Chord mode. A quick try with this worked very well. (If your Lead preset uses the semitone pitch bend trick you can also get  the chords shifted by a semitone too.)

In chord mode your first touch of the pad will sound the whole chord rather than a single note, which is not so great for this effect, but it still works. The preset will need to have the sound you want and the chords you want in this case.

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