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Keyboard Magazine compared the Prophet 5 to several VAs including the
AN1X. Said the Prophet 5 was warmer but more vanilla, needed eq to
really sit in a track. Dave Smith who designed the Prophet 5 worked
in Yamaha's physical modeling department for a spell, also designed
VA software synths so chances are it's pretty close.

For me, VAs give me 97% of what I want in an analog synth. I had a
beautiful sounding old Siel but it never worked right. Never knew
from day to day whether it would work or not. Cassette tape patch
backup. Didn't have half the capabilities of the ANix. In a mix, the
AN1X sounds analog except the pulse width mod doesn't have the same
throb. Hard to put into words.

With the free eg and the mod matrix you can get sounds from the AN1X
that I never heard from another synth.

Rainbow Jimmy