Uncle Dave,
You are so right.. It is so much fun to play everything manually I did it a lot. I'd record a really nice drum track, and then I'd put the fusion bass on the left hand and use R1 and R2 for combined electric paino voices... What a blast. I liked the control with the fusion bass. That's one great thing about Yamaha. Even on their lower models they'll use velocity switching on the voices..

Squeak