How do you make smooth slides in Picked Nylon?

Balarila

On a real guitar, I can pluck a note with my left hand’s finger firmly on a fret, then slide my finger, say, two frets up, effectively raising the pitch one full step, without plucking the 2nd note.

I try to do this on Picked Nylon by having a sequence of two notes with a third “slide note” occurring a little after the beginning of the first note and ending before the end of the 2nd note. This “slide note” effectively bridges the two notes into a slide.

What I hear in Picked Nylon, however, are two notes, both plucked, though the 2nd note actually slides from a pitch of the first note.

how can I make the slide without having the plucking on the 2nd note?

Donkey Oaty

If you are playing the melody version of the instrument, you can use the midi key switches on your keyboard (or add them using your DAWs editor).

G#1 - to slide up

A1 to slide down

I know, because I had to look it up myself. Section 3.6 of the user manual. You'd need to revert to C1 (normal) or D#1 (tremolo), or whatever articulation you'd been using prior, after the slide. You need to leave a space (if manually editing) or pause (if playing) between the end of the note you're sliding up/down from and the beginning of the note you are sliding to. This determines the speed of the slide and the slide effect you hear. It works really well but requires a bit of experimenting at first use.

To get the effect of sliding up and carrying the prior pluck's input you will need to adapt your velocity. If you get your spacings right there's no pluck sound on the destination note of the slide, so how it sounds will be down to the velocity of that second note. Obviously it should be lower than that of the initial note in the slide. I'd suggest that if you're playing it all in via your MIDI keyboard, you have a little play around with the second note velocity in your DAW editor. This will enable you to get the sound as you want it and enable you to work out how much velocity you should apply to the slide's destination note to get that sound.