Diki to comment on your last post... I always found a lot of "one tick notes" in the quick (multi track) recordings I made on my Yamaha. The worst is when you don't get the lowest note down first, it sounds like the bass player screwed up! However, at least on my old Pa50 it appeared that Korg was "batching" the chord input. In other words, when I pressed the a note in the chord area it started a logic process where it waits and listens for additional notes for about 25-30 milliseconds. It then sounds the chord based on whatever keys are depressed at the end of that time period. So you're ok as long as you get all of the constituent notes down within about .02 seconds of the first one. You can release unwanted notes too. Thus you have an opportunity to correct your mistakes before they get "on paper."

In a direct comparison this approach feels a little less responsive, but you quickly adjust the timing of your chord input by "leading" the beat a bit more. The result sounds better because there are no smeary portamento sounds, and the recorded score was absolutely clean!

The best of all worlds would be to use Korg's approach but to make the length of this "Note to Arranger input window" *user-adjustable* from zero (real time, limited only by processor speed) to about 50 or 60 ms. (Personally I've never seen a piece where there were more than four chord changes in a measure!)

Stephen maybe your program will be the first one to embrace this feature. Good luck in your endeavor. -Ted