Yeah, the Audya's sax isn't the best I've heard.

The idea behind having those alternate sounds, especially on an arranger, is so we can pretend to be the Sax player, and perhaps add a part in our music that a real sax player would actually put there if he was playing in our "virtual band".

So we try to play it idiomatically so it sounds reasonably like a sax.

This is all the better when the Sax sound on our keyboard is pleasing to listen to, as well as reasonably responsive to playing technique.

Sadly, an unpleasant sax sound, can't be rescued by any amount of technique and/or reverb.

The Audya's sax, at least the one that was demoed in this clip, is in this category...of course, it seemed more of a sax section sound, and there seemed to be another sound layered with it.

The Audya must have better sax sounds than that one.

Very few, if any, keyboard players, can emulate a sax player exactly...David Sancious comes close (he uses a breath controller) but, for the majority of us, all we can do is use the sound as expressively as possible, and treat it as another color we can use from our arranger's palette of sounds.

Ian



[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 11-10-2009).]