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> Are you playing this stuff out? Must be nice if so. I have been 
looking for
> a prog type situation for a long time. I'm a freelancer, love the 
jazz part
> of that, but not so hot on the top 40 cover side of it.

Cool that you get to play some jazz. What contexts do you find 
yourself doing jazz in. I play the occasional cocktail piano thing. 
I'd love to do some fusion gigs with a good drummer and bassist.

As to playing Yes music. The answer is yes and no. I do play some 
occasional Yes stuff with friends. More for fun than anything. But 
really my interest in it is basic sound-design for leads. I am a 
little tired of the pseudo-trumpet, pseudo-guitar, thing where the 
ADSR is responsible for a lot of the character of the sound.

So I have been casting about in my head for a couple of different 
paradigms. I hit upon the fact that Wakemans softer leads really 
weren't adopted by anyone else. (If you discount the sine wavy R&B 
lead that uses portamento in a similar way.) He's more subtle than 
you would think with his sounds. He's always messing with the 
portamento speed and things like that to tailor it to the tune. 

So I am just trying to find a new lead sound that is reasonably 
musical and a little different. And it struck me, I had never figured 
this particular sound out. 

Thanks a bunch,

Jerry