Rikki: Seems like a lot of steps to get what we want. Let me know if you are successful. FYI, I was using the Guitar Pop Style with Latin Pop multipad. Mainly used style variation B with multipad 2 or all four multipads.

I have resorted to the really hard way. Practice alot until I get the timing right.

The best we can hope for is that Yamaha took my request to allow the behavior we want as an option in multi-pad setting.