But that's a generic MIDI footcontroller, there... got to be a boatload of programming to get it to do whatever you want... (unless you stick to Yamaha's preset assignments)

Roland is just seven dumb switches. But the arranger does all the assigning to them, storable on board. Make a simple task simpler is usually the best solution

Perhaps in regular arranger mode, if you aren't doing stuff that has changes all the time you have time to mess with the fills, but in either Pianostyle mode (where BOTH hands are playing full time) or fast uptemo stuff with changes every few beats, I just don't see how you can play them without SOME kind of foulup getting to the buttons and back.

Lord knows, it's one of the things I notice a LOT in amateur demos. Timing of the fill, or the notes themselves get screwed up a LOT when you have to dive off the chord hit one tiny button amidst a bunch of other tiny buttons, and get back to the next chord (usually late and/or clammed ).

As I asked Donny... if you HAVE to trigger a fill on beat 2 AND change chords, which do you choose to play incorrectly?