Maybe the Europeans have the sax sound down pat. The AltoSax on my Ketron XD3 was absolutely stunning. On solos it could fool people.

One of the things REALLY holding me back on the Tyros is that I think it's sax sounds are terrible. It was interesting to see Scott corroborate this for me. I even listened to the Motif ES samples WITH the Virtual Acoustic plug-in board and I STILL thought the sax sounds were terrible.

Even Andrea's brilliant playing couldn't convince me that the sax sounds on the Tyros are passable. They simply sounded like the sax sounds from my Ensoniq Mirage keyboard/sampler from 1988!

It's a terrible Catch 22 - worse styles and better saxes on the GEM/Ketron but better styles, more reliability and TONS of support on the Yamaha's.

Ugh. I keep spinning my wheels.

Tommy