Diki, Thanks for the help, but I had already tried assigning the break/mute, not only to the pedalboard but to the Fade In button. They work fine, but what it does is simply stop everything, and it's not very musical. The way Yamaha does it is insert a bass drum-cymbal, or something similar at the stop, then maybe a little lead back in after the break. They are not all the same, and depend on the style. I guess it's not exactly a break-mute as much as a break/fill, but that's mostly semantics.
My work-around as been simply to stop the arranger and drums with the stop switch and bring it back in with syncro-start. It's easier to do on the G70 than on Yam., because the sync-start stays on until you turn it off. The Yam. syncro-start goes off after the arranger starts. That's useful in some other ways, but not in this instance.
I am more and more overwhelmed with the LIVE sound of the G70. HankB and I listened to recordings today that I made on last night's job and it seemed as if we were listening to a very good four or five-piece band.
DonM