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I've just unboxed my Push2 and am having as look around and am a little worried about some of the little details I am noticing.

I am a keyboard player who plays with 5 audio tracks and 3 midi tracks (played live via a keyboard and occasionally the Push pads).

1) I used to be able to switch between the 3 midi tracks using the arm buttons, so I could use the different midi instruments whilst in session mode. Now it appears I need to remove my hands from the keyboard to press record and arm - seems a backward step (for me)

2) I used to be able to stop tracks just by clicking the stop button at the top of each track. Now I apparently have to select the track I want to stop and click stop clip. What if I want to have another track selected?

Aaah...(few moments fiddling)....1) I can solve by mapping 3 buttons on my keyboard to arm the tracks (still quite liked the way Push 1 worked)

2) I noticed I can lock the stop clip button which give me the previous stop button behaviour.

...so back to exploring (and feeling more positive)

Things are a bit different from Push 1 for sure, but give it a couple days to grow on you and I bet you like the new methodology better overall. There's still a few omissions that will be addressed, but it's much more intuitive than P1 I find.

Yes - am finding things out as I go, will take a while to reestablish my live workflow.

btw - many thanks for your great one-knob series of fx. I still use many in my live set-up.

In an earlier post I adressed the problem with switching between tracks.
As I am a guitar player it is a backward step for me too.
Maybe it is a minor problem, but I would love to see the old behaviour again.

I haven't tried with P2, but I don't see why it shouldn't work:
go to your options.txt and add this line
-EnableArmOnSelection

Here's how to find your options.txt