sequencer wont retain pitch

[ratty]

Mamamia! There is a major missing link in my MMF goal for today.

I'm trying to make a music sequencing game. The bar beat moves from left to right; if a beat it triggered, it sounds. Here's a pic:

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Now, that works find and dandy if each horizontal line is only possible of making a single note. Gets kinda old, though. I've been trying for 3.5 hours to make it so when you tap and hold on a spot, a bar pops up, as you slide up or down on the bar it changes the pitch of the note higher or lower, respectively. Once you release the tap, the note stays the pitch it was when you released. That way, each horizontal line can be an instrument, rather than all lines comprising only one instrument, a single note each.

The thing that doesn't work is that I cannot, for the life of me, have the pitch stay what it was once I have let up on the tap and have started tapping down a different note elsewhere. I'm sleeping on it for now. I've spent waaaay too much time swearing at my computer (well, not really, but I was thinking the swears in my head).

If anyone has any input or examples, I'm all ears!

My journey from forgetting what little click-logic I remembered to being able to create a decent game continues...one day of studying at a time.

[SolarB]

would it help to save the 'pitch' as an alterable value and then access that value when the string is released?