Yeah, I agree there’s some really exciting potential in deeper MIDI interaction between CHORD, ROOT, and VOICING, but it comes with a few tricky edge cases. We talked about some of this here.
For example, if we made ROOT do transposition and VOICING do inversion on incoming MIDI notes, a beginner could plug in a keyboard and immediately get “wrong” notes (everything shifted or inverted) without understanding why. Also, ROOT is currently as a quick way to switch between “MIDI Note Takeover” and normal front panel control, so repurposing it would mean we’d need a new way to handle that mode switch.
I’m with you on that. A monophonic chord mode where the keyboard sets the root would be useful. I’ll add it to our list of things to consider for a future firmware update.