That's my favorite way to play. The Yamaha does it very well too. I'm having a harder time getting the PA80 to behave well in that situation though. There are lots of anomolies that are making me crazy.
For instance:
The dedicated "manual bass" button has too many drawbacks for my style of play, so I wrote a "lower" sound for the bass ..... that's great UNLESS you use an "ending" to a drum rhythm . the lower sound shuts off! Totally stupid feature.