I realize there's no staging, obviously the pots are dedicated for specific tools. Similar to a matrix style tool magazine, such as on my matsuura. Tool always goes back to the same pot. However I can change the tool number in that pot to anything 1-9999.
All my haas machines have side-mount toolchangers and there's been times I've changed tool numbers in the pocket table. Not too often but once in a while.
I would have thought you can do the same with an umbrella machine. It is the same control...
I suppose the toolchange sequence or logic is different since you need to return the current tool first, before selecting next one. Seems lazy on Haas' part you can't do it and everything is "fixed". It should just run off pot numbers instead. Too bad.