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Thanks to you all I found what I'd need to make my win XP laptop 
interface w/ AN1X (i.e., had original editor on win 98 machine that 
died over a year ago, but found out about stand alone version of AN 
Expert Editor etc from you guys).

I wanted to use the AN1X's step sequencer to help me program bass 
lines, and so far, w/ the rest/velocity thing and some tweaks to my 
hardware sequencer's "swing", things are working out well. 

With everything going swimmingly and less intimidated by midi and 
the AN1x interface than I was a couple years back—not to mention the 
way the sound sits in my mixes far better—I decided to swap the AN1x 
for my JP-8K in my live rig.

So, with thanks to you all again, I was off to find voice sets.  
First I found that I had to change the name of the files from *.an1 
to *AN1 for the AN Expert to find them. Is this the correct 
approach?  

Now the real problem. About 70-80% of my newly dl'ed patches cause 
midi note hangs.  An important troubleshooting note here is that 
**none of the patches in the AN Expert Editor "user" portion of the 
library (i.e., 001: Metallic) cause this to happen. **  (As an 
important aside, perhaps, I DO get a "check sum" error when loading 
ANY voice, i.e., either the user voices that came in AN Expert 
Editor or the dl'ed voices.  Plus, voices in 1 or 2 from AN Expert 
won't load either, but I assumed this was normal b/c they were AN200 
specific.) 

Anyhow, thanks again for this serious knowledge-base and THANKS IN 
ADVANCE for any/all insights.  I know I have other questions, but 
we'll leave it at this for now.

Thanks again and keep on tweaking on.