Big downfall for the Montage... You can only load 256 user arps in your registry...
And you can not create your own arps on the Montage, only load them from external sources..
It looks like Yamaha is wandering the same road as with the tyros, taking functions away from the board and creating pc apps to replace that...
All in all, i have learned a bit more about the montage, because while a performance consist of 16 parts, you can only access 8 of them from the keyboard ( arps are keyboard parts too). You can however access the other 8 parts from the sequencer, or from external sources like Varranger, the Karma app or your DAW...
Yes, I've posted the last part of what you say in our new synthesizer discussion section outside the arranger forum, here:
http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthread..._by_#Post416041Even if the Montage had unlimited arpeggios, it's not the same as a style, as you would have to switch on and off different arps actively yourself, switch on and off fill-in arpeggios, very different from just hitting variation buttons with automatic fill-ins. And I think you can't make the Montage react differently to major, minor and 7th chords.