Capture the beat whenever and wherever creativity strikes with PreSonus®' ATOM. An intuitive, musical, MIDI pad controller, ATOM's dynamic, ultra-sensitive pads will give you all the expression you need, whether you're making a beat, creating a driving synth line, or triggering sound effects and loops on the fly. Tight integration with both Studio One® and Ableton® Live mean that you stay inspired without missing a beat. Your focus will be off the screen and on your performance - where it matters most.

When I play in S1 or Live 10, I'm getting tons of double notes - as if the aftertouch itself acts as a note trigger Elsewhere in the main Modes, you also get doubling up depending on which mode you are in. Within Instrument Mode there are well-featured arpeggiator and scale functions while in Edit and User modes (in the main setup) you can adjust how Atom’s controls operate. Solid control 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. As is the case with many newer electronics, this MIDI controller utilizes a USB-C™ compatible USB 2.0 connection, which makes it very easy to hook up to pretty much any workstation or controller. This is the only power source that the ATOM SQ requires, making it highly portable. Dimensions and weightSo 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. 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.

So talking about the features in Presonus Atom vs Atom SQ, Atom is the first pad controller from Presonus. And as we know it has the ability to trigger loops and effects and it can be used to play virtual instruments. It offers several modes like MIDI keyboard mode with the use of 4 programmable rotary encoders & 20 buttons that can be assigned. 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. The current velocity settings are useless for melodies because with normal playing (not to break fingers on the pads) it registers :

Enjoy full expression with switchable polyphonic aftertouch, channel pressure, or MIDI CC message modes Pads – For anyone that has used a keyboard MIDI controller before, these pads are going to have a familiar feel to them. They are set up in such a way as to mimic a standard keyboard, making them very easy to jump in and start using right off the bat. That is not to say, however, that these pads are just carbon copies of a standard keyboard. They are actually much more versatile than that, as they can be used for a variety of different instruments. These pads will also change color according to the mode you are in, as well as the different melodic scales that you are using. This all works pretty seamlessly with the included Studio One bundle or Ableton Live. These pads are also pressured sensitive, which allows you to change the pitch so that you achieve exactly what you are looking for in your music.