Originally posted by Nick G:
What this means is you can make 1 or 2 or more of the variations very short so they act as fill ins and you can set thats variations to "Realtime" so when you press the variation button it will INSTANTLY go into a fill. OR if it is configured to be my "Measure" it will change to the fill in timing at the next bar.
Sorry, Nick, but my understanding is that, unless you cue up a fill a bar in advance, if you set it up for instantly, it WILL go instantly to the fill loop, BUT.... it will start one the 'one' of the loop, regardless of where in the bar you pressed for the fill loop. With an arranger, you ask for a fill on the 'two', it will START on the 'two'...
That's the only thing that rules it out as an arranger substitute, to be honest. The rest you can SORT of workaround (but it's a pain), but this one is a complete deal-breaker, IMO.