Short doots don't feel right

[Cass Kong]

I'm really now sure what I'm doing wrong. I always get "ok" or worse when doing short doots. There's not really any feedback saying I started too eaarly/late or ended too early/late, or if I was too sharp or flat. The short notes feel like they need to be more generous than they are.

[COAT]

Honestly surprised the short notes aren't just single notes, tbh. I could just be bad lmao but seems like my streak is broken any time there's short notes.

[TheUnderTaker]

yea and u cant really alternate key presses to minimize delay betweeen notes because game registers it like a one long press

[Mr. Holy Wow]

There's lots of feedback surrounding the difficulty of short notes, and looking at how scores are calculated, this makes sense. To summarize:

• the game calculates how close you are to the correct note each frame while a note is active.
• if you're not playing a note at all, you get a 0 for that frame.
• since short notes have less frames, each 0 is more punishing. missing the first few frames might doom you to a "meh."

I'll add this to the top of the priority list as it seems to be the biggest complaint surrounding gameplay at the moment. Might be simple to make this feel better: we can just check the length of a note and deal with zeroes differently if the note is less than a quarter note.

[Moocin]

Though I agree that short notes do not feel "right" most of the time, it does not mean they do not work, they are just hard and need a way more precise start-end toot time vs other ones.

Making them easier is a double-edge sword, it will make getting an S rank way easier so the "grind" and replayability might lower significantly.
And it's not like it is currently impossible to have an S rank in all songs - for me only Entertainer and Trombone Fuerte left but very close to S rank.

Maybe add an "S+" rank which is like an almost 100% of the song played perfectly after making the short note easier? For those that would love to grind the top ranks that would be a great solution!

Thanks for an amazing game Devs!