Arpeggiator Legato for dummies

Can anyone explain in a step-by-step fashion how the blasted legato function of the arpeggiator works? Using the init voice if need be.

All it ever seems to do for me is silence the track, and the manual hardly covers this topic at all.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Anyone?

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In synthesizers legato is a type of [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophonic_(synthesizers)”]monophonic operation. In contrast to the typical monophonic mode where every new note rearticulates the sound by restarting the [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSR_envelope”]envelope generators, in legato mode the envelopes are not re-triggered if the new note is played “legato” (with the previous note still depressed). This causes the initial [url=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_(acoustics)”]transient from the attack and decay phases to sound only once for an entire legato sequence of notes. Envelopes reaching the sustain stage remain there until the final note is released.

Oh, I for some reason thought this would make the notes slide between each other. Got it to work. Just not what I expected.