Says it all.

Sorry about the echo post.

We should clear up some lingo for clarity sake. The drum "local on/off comparison" causes a millisecond down beat delay. Nothing that affects anything except if you were making a recording. The echo that I heard on my first experiment was seconds later replaying the tone. These are very different situations to me. In conversation here I don't really know which situation is being discussed. In a live performance with reverberations all of the room a millisecond offset in a piano key strike to a DX synth tone WHO CARES? If I control these 9 thru 16 channels with a remote MIDI keyboard I'll get exactly the same delay unless I play a millisecond faster. Perhaps I'm not understanding what the fuss is about. The 2 second echoing however is a nuisance but my setup has none of this going on which is what I consider to be MIDI looping of a signal. For example [press a key once] = tone (Not) [Press a key once] = tone......tone ......tone (fading away).

BM, can you pass davids ideas along to the engineers? There has to be a way of internally doing this with a mild software adjustment as opposed to tricking the Midi into the desired 16 parts that now as we see CAN be controlled via keyboard. : ) Thanks David!.

If you try this remember that when you go back to normal Montage performances (since the MIDI cable is installed in-to-out) that you'll either have to disable the zone control or change from [MIDI] to [USB] under the utility menu. If Yamaha were to make any internal mod they'd also need to add an easy way to disable/enable without having to go into sub menus to make a change. Or make it a program option within the performance itself instead of a global setting.