For example, I would like to add the new way the onscreen sliders work but I could care less about the categorized groups.
You can actually just activate, or 'focus' an onscreen slider without changing it's setting even in Ver 1.30!
If you touch only the numeric 'level' shown at the top of a slider, without touching the main slider area, this will select that slider without changing the level, and you will see a red box border appear around the whole slider.
You can then use the data wheel or the increment buttons to change the value, or of course your finger on the display.
This seems to apply to onscreen sliders in all Mixer, etc. displays, with the exception of the 'drawbars' in the Organ Flutes screen.
It sounds to me like all that Ver 1.40 does for this function is to extend the 'first touch' sensing area to cover anywhere on a slider. However this is welcome.
In Ver 1.30, even though the position of the onscreen virtual sliders always match the actual level of each one, it is almost impossible to touch the 'sliding' area of one without changing it's value. As long as you touch on the slider's 'lever' on the display, any change in level will be quite small but might still be noticeable in some situations. So being able to just 'focus' a slider on first touch without changing its level, by touching anywhere within its boundaries is a sensible approach, and avoids those with big fingers when trying to touch the small 'level' area of the slider, inadvertently touching the main area too, potentially causing a big jump in level!
It might be that Yamaha's intention from the beginning was to 'focus' a slider without changing its value on first touch of it anywhere within it's screen boundary, but for some reason, only the upper, 'level' area was used in the firmware code, rather than the whole area! We will never know!
Before updating I'm still waiting for someone to confirm without ambiguity that Ver 1.40 genuinely improves the functioning of the actual physical sliders as claimed by some! However to date no one seems to want to go on record to confirm this!
I can't see how it can, but if people convince me that it does, I will update, hoping that Yamaha reinstate the ability to assign On/Off switching of the main voice parts to a pedal in a future update!
Regards
Ian