Personally I would be fine with the quirks of it's operation and different hold mode if (frustratingly, like all of sequentials synths) the arpeggiator clock didn't reset every single time you hit a new note unless you legato move to another chord while always keeping a key down (this usually also messes with arp patterns having an extra wrong note from the previous chord if you don't time it absolutely perfectly.) Because of the lack of a latching and changeable hold mode, the only way to play an arpeggiated part that changes notes is to hold the keys down the entire time, but every time you switch chords it jumps the clock to start early or late out of time again. This is with the internal clock, clock sync input and midi synced clock. IDK why they do this on all their synths but its exacerbated on this one because of the lack of standard latching hold mode. Even a global setting to make the clock never reset like on most other arps (Juno 60, Moog Grandmother, Arturia Keystep, even my old Sequential Prophet VS) would be appreciated. They've added an "arp beat sync" option to lots of their synths, but in my experience that setting makes absolutely no difference to this behavior.
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