Golly Gosh Walter, you're spot on. I didn't see any mention about this "extra" when I first read the manual, and having read it again today still can't find anything. If it's not in there it looks like another area where Technics don't do themselves any favours in keeping things hidden from their customers - like explanations about what the 6000 updates did.

Agreed the sound arranger makes a tremendous difference but I don't think it changes the arrangements of the styles/variations, just the sounds???

Ogre