I'm not sure if this was a thing back then, but now you can program it that way manually.

Quick workaround: cover the desired area with a Text and empty text and assign the long press. It will still pass all other gestures through it. Also you can limit it to just a portion of a large XY pad, invisibly. Or be visible and use an emoji icon

This is already possible, isn’t it? I just tested it.

But perhaps I’m missing something here.

How about a relative mode?

How do you implement reset to default and other actions without losing the immediate response to tap? which should not be sacrificed, imo.

Implementing this as a double-tap option (long press I think is going to be a tad error-prone for an XY pad). It's a little bit of a manual process still; you have to enter custom mode, then add actions for double-tap. At some point in the future I'm probably going to add some additional UI to automate this setup.

See also https://roadmap.loopypro.com/feature-requests/p/improve-ui-for-xy-pads-and-sliders-for-binding-effect-parameters

when choosing long press for reset: show something like a "load" button to know always, that you have to move the XY Pad to avoid an unwanted reset.

+1 for fast triple tap

Addition: while you slide with one of your finger for parameter changes (and ) you tap with a second finger for this reset function.

That would be sweet my man... Would save another widget doing that. 👌