Can you get the Pad to 'Replace' the Variation as well as add to it, James? I don't see how this could really be used to get a proper fill out of a Variation if it can't...

To be honest, I've always been a Roland guy, so I never had Pads on any arranger I have used. They seem like a great thing, if used carefully.

But I still don't see why Korg cling so stubbornly to the 'two fills and a B/F' paradigm for so long (especially as they just went through a major OS revision) while their competition outstrips them on this issue... How hard could it be to add the additional fills to the OS and use AutoFill to address them without even redesigning the panel (so it COULD be an OS refinement rather than a model change)..? Sure, they'd have to reprogram a few styles to demo the feature (and add it to future styles), but simple programming would allow already existing 2Fill styles to play like they do now (Roland's have no problem with older, two fill styles), and 4fill (or six, or sixteen!) styles to use the newer system.

It is, BY FAR, a simpler thing to implement than DNC, yet it remains unaddressed. Were I Korg, this, along with a plethora of new sample sets to make the most out of DNC, would be my main priority to improve the PA2...