I'm a guitar player in an acoustic trio (bass, mandolin & me). I received my Gio a couple of days ago. Watched the Mainstage video from Mac pro videos. Good vid. Made me wish I was a keyboard player. The buttons of different colors on the Gio are real pretty and seem to do a reasonable Job of turning off and on the pedal board. Same with changing patches even though changing sets are another story since there is no foot switch available for that. Guess you can't have everything. Question is this. How would one turn on and off Playback, record, turn on cycle between markers, turn off cycle between marker, go to the next marker, go to the previous marker, control fade out and while this track is playing switch to the looper plug and use the looper plug-in with all its controls with the five buttons on the Gio? Hm, I don't think this thing is going to work. Maybe that is why they only give you three controls in Playback pre-mapped when you turn it on for the first time. It would also be nice if the interface for playback would stay on screen when you switch to layout mode so you could easily map a couple of things. I figure that it has to be me that I am missing something since apogee is such a great company. So if anybody can answer the question above I'd sure appreciate it.
Thanks
Oscar