I fully agree, I still remember the wording to, where they state that trying to record the chords to steps, will leave you sorely disappointed.
How about just finding away to implement it?
Another thing that has always bothered me and I don't know why it has to be this way, but why does the chord memory not get remembered on power down? The controller can remember almost every single other aspect of the keyboard, but you have to manually set the chord memory to your liking, everytime you power on the unit. If they could find a way to have that remembered on a per track basis, that would be incredible, save a lot of time and hassle in remembering exactly what chord you had set, to what channel.