DonM... there shouldn't be ANY Break/Fills from converted styles. The G70 does not have this feature (preferring a Break/Mute), so the smoothness of translated B/F's should be moot...

Perhaps it is the translation software? Trying to make something out of nothing!

My easiest way of making a Break/Fill on the Roland is to copy a fill into an Intro, leave the first beat on the drums (or not, depending on the style), then erase everything but the drums, then erase all but the last beat or two of the drum fill. On a slow tune, I might put a pedal closed Hihat on the '2' and '3'...

Actually, if you can do away with intros altogether for a style, you can do this to four of the fills and have them on Intros 1-4. You can then have a B/F appropriate to each level of the style, rather than the one B/F per style that Yamaha currently give you. Put Intro on a footswitch, and you now have a B/F at the level you are playing, triggered hands-free!

It's a VERY flexible system, once you get used to triggering the B/F just before you need it (like Endings)...

But yes, I would love to see this feature changed on the G70, and requested this very thing soon after I got my G70. But it's simpler to program a total Break, than to add one (up to four, preferably) more Fills to the OS (that's all a B/F is, really, a special fill with a break at the front).

But I'm hoping and praying for the manufacturers to finally bite the bullet, and start to give us a dedicated fill for EACH and every Variation to Variation, and a Break/Fill per Variation. On a four variation arranger, that's sixteen fills (including Fill-to-Same) plus four B/F's. Now that might seem like a lot of programming, but trust me, it is MUCH easier to create a fill that you KNOW where it is coming from, and going to, than something that needs to perform well in a variety of situations.

As this is simply a matter of changing the behavior of the lookup section tables, I don't see how this is any challenge to any modern arranger, they can as easily have 16 fills as 3 (like Korg do) or 6 (like Yamaha) or 7 (like Roland). Once the style writers find out how much easier this makes their lives, one can only hope the manufacturers jump on board...

The text issue is now fixed on the E80 (but apparently can't be added to a G70, but will appear on the next one, for sure). Maybe if it is added to the E60's successor, you might have something light enough to bring you back to the manufacturer whose styles you love so much...!