Yes, That's correct. People who are not familiar with arpeggiators want to reinvent the wheel. There is more to an arpeggiator than just holding the notes on the keyboard. We can "play" the arp to give it varying patterns of notes. Also use the Live Control parameters to create variations, such as Gate Time and Velocity. I use an external MIDI controller to vary (real-time) Attack , Release, Filter Cutoff and Resonance along with Gate Time. This is a common musical element for EDM.
Multi Pads are recordings of arps or note patterns, chord patterns. Then there are controller arps which are basically filter messages controlled by LFOs synced to the MIDI clock.
Yamaha fell short on implementing the arpeggiator on the arranger. With the Motif and Montage we can do so much more.
Joe H
I agree the arpeggiator on the Genos feels like a toy version compared to my MOXF;.
On my MOXF i can layer arps everywhere on the keyboard.
So when i choose to add them to my left hand, i can. (and midi the left hand to the Genos)
And that is actually a lot of fun, combining arps with the chord progression.
"Playing" them in between the full fingered chords.
I remember a topic about this at early release.
Where quite some people where dissatisfied with the arps in the Genos.
The main reason i bought the MOXF however, is that i can not load any user arps in the Genos.
Combining the MOXF with the Genos really adds another layer
I might take this one step further and convert the MOXF into a Montage
Prices dropped considerably in europe.