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Yeah, I know. Use the right tool for the job. :)

The synth in question sounds like it could be a VL1. It has that 
slightly plastic shimmery quality, and inflections are very windlike. 
The idea of getting the daughterboard with a mu80 is a cool one. 
Thanks for the tip. I may look into getting a vl instrument 
sometime.....

At the moment though, I am not trying to imitate a sax. I have plenty 
of decent saxophones on my rompler. I am trying to get a  reedy, 
shimmery voice with a slightly puffy (like air coming through the 
reed) attack on the AN1x. Close counts. If I can get that base sound, 
I think the AN1x can smoke the VL1 for expressiveness, with the 
analog control it has. I just need that reedy quality. I think I am 
going to study the cello patch (the one from the JP8000) to see how 
they get it to sound reedy.

Interestingly, some of the Akai EWI modules are true analog.

Regards,

Jerry