ED, I was just using shorthand for WX5, WX7, and WX11. The WX7 and WX11 have been discontinued for some time now, but both are fairly readily available used. In the wind controller community some people still prefer the WX7 because it is made out of metal instead of plastic and they feel it is a more professional unit. The WX11 is a "dumbed down" version of the WX7, but it is also made of plastic and not metal; however, it is also supposedly easier to learn to play. Other people seem to think the WX5, because of features, is the most advanced wind controller Yamaha has ever made.

I used to play flute but quit because of denture problems (the lower denture moves when you tighten up your lower lip causing your embochure to go whacky and denture glue winds up making the pads sticky). Even so, I have considered the possibility of starting out with a WX5 and the flute (recorder actually) mouthpiece, but almost everyone on the windcontroller BBS recommends against doing that. Are you familiar with Bob "Notes" Norton's website where he gives explicit instructions on how to go about setting up the WX5? You might go there and print out the instructions just to keep around in case you ever need them.

I think what I will wind up doing is going up to GC in Portland and getting a MoES6 and bringing it home and trying it for a couple of weeks and then take it back and bring home a Tyros and see which one serves my purpose better and then getting/keeping that one. It's just such a pain to have to drive 100 miles one way every time just to do that. Oh well, no one ever promised me a rose garden in life!

AJ, unfortuneatly Yamaha apparently is no longer supporting XG Works and has never updated it to run on WinXP and I'm not willing to give up WinXP to run ANY software, at least that I know of right now. I do all my recording to a Korg D1600 hard disk recorder and then export through a CDRW to my laptop (a Sony FRV27) where I use both Sound Forge 6 and Wavelab 4 to mix/master, edit, and just generally message it into the form I want and then use EZ CD Creator to burn it to a CD. I have CEP2 but since I don't use multi-track audio, just stereo, I found the other two programs to be better for mastering/editing. I have a number of DirectX plugins that I use with them and they are doing everything I need to do and doing it very well.

If I do end up getting the MoES6, I will certainly be getting the VL plugin board too.

Tom

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