Here is an idea: you can make it "slide" from wherever you were with your finger to the actual note whenever you enter the surroundings of the note. And you can even light the note a bit when that happens... I think that'd work without making it sound like a step change.
Nice. Seems like a good way to go for most slide guitar style riffs.
The real tradeoff is when you do want to purposely play all of the notes in between (microtonal scales). Of course, the way the UI is built, different sliding styles could be different view modes, so it's just a judgement call for total number of modes and what those modes should be.
