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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