Your rendition made me take a look at the MOXF but I quickly said to myself, "No more toys, it is not the tool, but the person who made the beautiful music." LOL Trying to free myself from gear lust. (BTW,I have all the Garritan libraries.)

I thought about this tune and the title of it as I played my gig today. Among the tunes that I played were Silent Night..., It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, O, Holy Night, and then this song Die Nacht.... Not only beautiful but very meaningful. The Christmas Birthday Boy came at night while the world was in its darkness.

@Torch: Nice to know the carol was part of your program. Yes, it is meaningful, and the melody reflects the special Advent atmosphere in a very deep, mythical way.

@Mikem:
I prefer the Garritan large strings when I need a warm, lush section. Actually, the strings voice I programmed includes both the Garritan waveform element as well as a section strings waveform from the Motif. For small strings I like DSF very much, but for some reason the larger DSF strings sound a bit static to me, maybe because there is no 'swelling dynamics' within the sample like in Garritan.
Here in this tune, Garritan sounds are
-strings (as I said, only 1 element of the voice)
-woodwinds
-French horns.
Directly from the MoXF presets are
-steel and nylon guitar
-soprano sax (bank 9, i.e. new Motif XF voice)
Additionally, there is the
-S700 piano for Motif XS (included in the free "Inspiration in a Flash" package).

Thanks very much, Rosetree, for taking the time to answer my questions!

By the way, good job on that carol!