Eric, Your version is good, very good. The older version was slower and the sax was deeper. Not one better than the other, just different.
One of the talents that a keyboard needs to have is to play each instrument with the feel of that instrument. Mine normally sounds like a keyboard player playing trying to play a sax; they are not the same.
I do play a good trumpet on my keyboard and the reason is that I played trumpet for 6 years; I know when to take a breath.
IMHO, John C.