Mike, thanks for 're-surfacing' what I consider an IMPORTANT Tyros issue. Wow, it's been 6 months now since I initally raised this topic issue here, as well as personally with Steve Deming (Yamaha USA), and have yet to hear word of a Tyros OS Update to address this problem.

Regretably I'm becoming increasingly resigned to the fact that Yamaha (out of corporate arrogance?) feels that they can simply 'skirt the issue' by saying it was a conscious 'design change' decision on Yamaha's part (we know better), resulting in lowering their operating costs & further maximizing Yamaha's profits.

I'm 99.99% convinced that the foot pedal activated auto loop 'fill to self' problem is simply due to one line of OS programming code that got overlooked (or entered wrong) by a Yamaha programmer, and would take only a few minutes of Yamaha's time to correct. The Tyros already supports flash ROM OS updating, so 'what's the problem'?

I'm probably the loudest voice here in expressing how much I LOVE the Tyros, but Yamaha's continueing deaf ear to admiting & correcting the Tyros missing foot pedal activated auto loop 'fill self' feature, is troubling at best. I really don't think I'm expecting to much. I just expect a top of the line arranger like the Tyros to include what is 'already included' in the REST of its arranger keyboard lineup.

Scott