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Guys:

Thanks so much for the advice about the step sequencer. I'll try them 
out. I used the step sequencer for the first time in a jam session on 
saturday with mixed results. 

The drummer was clearly in awe of it, the bassist was disappointed 
that I wasn't playing any notes. "So thats how they do techno" he 
said in a disappointed fashion. "I thought they played all the 
notes." Nevertheless everybody wanted to crowd round the synth and 
fool around with knobs afterward. So the An1X clearly made friends, 
though I am not sure if I did. :)

I think I was over playing (continuously sounding patterns), and at a 
minimum, I need to learn to do tap-tempo to the drummer's  tempo and 
use short abrupt patterns so as not to dominate...... As well as 
incorporate the advice you guys have given me.

I do wish they would have that musical way of tuning the sequencer 
where you could hold down a knob and hit a key, instead of tuning 
with the knob. 

Thanks again,

Jerry

PS: To those of you who have other VA synths with step sequencers... 
are they easier to use or harder? more musical or less? Thx.