Diki,

I really appreciate your desire to help. there are 2 issues re the midi pedals you suggest:

one is, i prefer not to be dependent on pedals, but to have them as an option. as much as i have tried to get pedals to be 2nd nature to me, i seem to only be able to do 2 operations at best (start/stop and fill) as 2nd nature.. so often it's easier and faster to use hand controls than think/look to my feet.

two is, when one knows how to do something, it's hard to put yourself in the place of someone who doesn't know the first thing about it. It's not as simple as buying midi pedals and reading a manual..and it's not just me, others on sz have said the same. however, if i can pay someone to program it, maybe that's an option. interested?

as far as the 4 ot's, i remember doing the hold thing for the first group of 4...but it was limited and it didn't work beyond the 4 as i recall (been a while-can't remember exactly) news to me about a software program that would help..but again that's something I'd need a lot of help with.

If I'm not sold on s900, I'll explore the options for the E60 you suggest. btw I have no objections to the d-beam per se, just how the 4 buttons are programmed.

ps. re the CS: i fully appreciate why you miss it so. for someone like me, however, who never plays arranger-style with silent left hand, and mostly uses bass/drum, if there's good chord recognition, single note recognition w/bass inversion, full kb recognition, i find i am not tied down to repeating same Lh chord patterns and am pretty able to play freely for the most part

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Miami Mo