Some interesting stuff there. Many people, myself included, are using multitrack backing tracks instead of sequences these days but the issue has always been, inside the keyboard itself there’s no remixing or loop/marker functions, and if you need that, you are forced to use a laptop.

The ability to mute the guitar parts, or percussion etc. if you play in a variety of settings without either doing it from a laptop or redoing everything at home and exporting new mixes, and the ability to restructure audio backing as easily as you can put Markers into an SMF so those additional players can have extra choruses or solos is a real game changer for an arranger.

I’ll keep it brief about the chord types supported by the audio guitar and bass patters, but it does bear noting that it says ‘UP TO 13 chord types’ and until full documentation is out, we don’t know how many or which styles offer the larger selection. Hopefully, this can be cleared up soon. The machine is capable of it, it just seems a shame they didn’t just get the guitar player to do them for all styles while they had him there!

There’s some quite forward looking stuff here. I wonder who is going to be the first to bite! Maybe you, Taike?!