there is nothing in the audya manual that says it has a sequencer built into it . Also yamah claim to have a sequencer on their instrument and it is not a sequencer. It has very basic record functions and barely anything else. I suspect the audya is the same. similarly there is nothing in the manual about its sampling abilities . The demo did not explain if the samples could be edited sliced and layered like my PA1X. I know these are new functions but i want the specifications not speculation.