Well in my previous trials I was only getting short recording and then it would overlap. After reading your post I sat down to try again and somehow...it would let me record as long as I pleased ;-) Strange world ...anyway yesterday I was playing with my G1 (7th day) and suddenly it all made sense - architecture of the synth as a whole, structure of zones, effects, phrase seq. etc. and it was like eye-opening moment...I am very pleased. Thanks for all the help !