Hi Tom, There is a second raison for not using latching or toggle mode is that it seems important tom me to be able to have several midi controllers for the same action. so that, one musician can launch a record somewhere on the stage and another musician can stop the record… Or, even, you can move from a controller to another. Also, if your loop recording is stopped by a script for something else, the state of the controller is indicating the state of the software and not is own state.