SWAM is a totally different to any arranger you have heard. It is not based on samples, with perhaps multi-velocity samples or key switching for legato, at best. SWAM uses no samples, is strictly a mathematical model of the reed and pipe (and strings and bow, etc). As such, it can achieve far greater realism in the way one note leads to the next, depending on articulation, breath pressure (or expression pedal), bite force, interval, velocity etc.. And as you increase breath pressure or expression pedal, it offers an infinitely smooth transition from the quiet timbre to the loud one.

A sample is a static photograph of a sound at one particular point. Like a pixel on a screen. The more samples, the clearer the picture becomes. But modeling doesn’t use pixels to create the picture. The picture is clear to start with…

Your MIDI harmonica should do quite well with SWAM. The trick, as always, even with sampled instruments is to play what a sax player would play, not what a harmonica player would..! But get that right, SWAM will amaze you.