Growling saxophone sample

[WildeFarmer]

Does anyone have a typical "growling" saxophone (alt or tenor) sample ? The standard nord sax samples are too "soft" especially in the higher notes. I tried to adjust the standard alto-saxophone sample adding a bit of rough edge with the LFO to maximum rate controlling the osc pitch, but that also adds a annoying resonance frequency, try to cover that up with a lot of reverb and an amp-sim (small) with a little bit overdrive, but then you're loosing the beautiful lower notes sound of the original sample, so I made split to let the 2 versions blend over. Anyways, it' s still not what I'm looking for. I played sax myself and know you can never really get that growling sound right but I'm sure it can be made better than what is available now. Maybe someone knows how to add an analog sound (as a layer) to the original sample but I tried that myself without any success. Just to mention an example, I'm trying to play the sax solo from "something got me started" from simply red. Thanks in advance for your help.

[sapateiro]

Watching because I need the same (for The Heat Is On)...

[tsss27]

Best solution is probably if someone samples some of the saxes out of a Yamaha board (Motif, Montage.)

[JMStage2]

A quick and dirty solution I use on my Stage2….for short sax phrases, I add the RM effect to afterouch to “growl” a note or two. (To experiment with that RM aftertouch rate= 0 to 6, amount set to =4 would be a starting point). Maybe adding the effect to a second layer at a lower volume would work without using the after touch.

[cookie]

Best solution is probably if someone samples some of the saxes out of a Yamaha board (Motif, Montage.)

I agree (could be done with SampleRobot).
Yamaha brass sounds are quite expressive, but hard to have the same dynamics with the mono-layer NSMP.

Other option is to sample from free saxophone VST like and create the NSMP using the Nord Sample Editor.
https://www.dskmusic.com/dsk-saxophones/
https://plugins4free.com/plugin/187/

Fred