My style is a little different, but for the same reasons I use the piano fingering mode on the PA80. When using piano sounds, and occasionally guitars, I sometimes like to turn the bass parts of the styles off and play left handed bass and right handed comping and riffs. Having only 61 keys of course really limits this, so that's when using "full keyboard" mode for chords becomes essential to me.

It also has the added benefit of forcing the chords to follow what I play exactly, which sometimes turns out to be a very good thing. The good thing is that the PA80 OTS settings, as well as the performance slots, recall everything I set up. You're very right about this Alex, and it may become a big issue for me.

I also play live with One Man Band, using my Motif ES along with a slew of softsynths. I have also played live with the MZ2000 solo. Neither of these have the so called "intelligent" or mode in the same way the PA80 does, so with them I only use full fingered chording, and I am quite comfortable with that as well.

AJ