Rikki,

To retain the 5 notes in the strum: paste it in a temporary part using the melody option, export the guitar strum track and then import it in the part that you pasted with the chord option.

You noticed that organising a collection of tracks (or phrases as you call them) in the right way is vital. I give each track a name consisting of 3 parts. The first is the instrument name. The second part is the number of beats in a bar and the orginal tempo, if it is in triplets I add a "t". The third part gives some additional info. So the name would be "piano 4-210 C-chord-G-chord" for a typical "hoom-pa-hoom-pa" piano accompaniment. There is going to be a track auditioner in OMB where you can browse thru tracks and play them with a mouse click.

To get midifiles for styles you can record small parts of a style in C and Cmaj7. Of course you have to own the original keyboard or arranger software for this. The styles of about all keyboards have been converted to PSR format. They are in the yamaha-psr-styles forum (and the related Vault). If you don't have a PSR then you can use OMB to produce the midifiles. If you just rename the *.sty to *.mid files you would be able to read them also but you would get very strange sounds.

Sesom,

Maybe you will change your mind after the PC arrangers appear and maybe not. But there are many others that would welcome this device for many different reasons. Getting more for less is one thing, specially where memory and disk space are concerned. Getting a compact device would be an issue for the ones that are hooked up to PC's now. And some don't care for the creativity provided by Roland, Yamaha and Korg. They want to be creative themselves.

Jos