No... played one. Extensively. Considered buying one for a while.

As long as you trigger fills A BAR IN ADVANCE, there is no problem with them staying in sync. Trouble is, few arranger users ask for the fills in advance (or at least, I haven't seen many do it that way). We call for a fill whenever we feel like it, and timing the fills to be either full bar fills or half-bar pickups (or just a one beat and a crash) is one of the ways to get more variety from a small selection.

MoXS can't do this. ALL arps start on the 'one'. You ask for a different arp, it plays the current one until the end of the bar and THEN plays the next arp. OR... you go to 'immediate' mode, and whenever you hit the arp button (no matter how lousy your timing) it instantly cuts off the current arp and starts the new arp 'on the one'. No matter WHERE you are in the bar when you hit it.

I am not sure, you MIGHT be able to get arps to start on the quarter note as well as full bar if 'immediate' drives you crazy with timing glitches, but there is still NO WAY to get around the fact that basically, there are NO 'fills' as such (they will always start on the 'one' even if you call for them on the 'two'). They are just regular arps, that behave exactly the same as every other arp, only you program a fill pattern into them.

Arranger fills are entirely different to arranger Variations. They can come in on any beat (a variation waits for the next bar), and whatever beat they come in on is still in sync with the bar beat.

Unless there's been an OS upgrade to add this, your buddies are simply working around the issue, they don't have a solution...

Oh and I couldn't find ANY way to trigger arps other than the front panel buttons (small and in the center). No MIDI shortcuts, no assigning it to footswitches...

Yamaha have got SO close with the chord following on the MoXs's, but still have a few small details to clear up before it rivals an arranger for ease of segment triggering.

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 06-12-2009).]