The Saxophones can really take your breath away. I fell in love with the tone of the Alto Sax and surprised myself by really liking the various vibrato articulations. I'm not a fan of everything in the world needed vibrato 100% of the time (I'm looking at you string patches), but it really works well. The Tenor wasn't quite as enthralling, likely just personal taste, but the growl of the Baritone really got me. The Soprano Sax also surprised me, the upper register of some instruments makes me flinch, as in some violins sound like a cat in pain in the top octave, but this sounded pleasant and solid.
The Staccato and Marcato articulations tend to have 6 round robins and Falls from 3 to 6. Oddly the Sustain doesn't have round robins. The Staccato has 3 velocity layers and the others 2. There are also Bend Ups, Slurs, SFZs, Trills and I'm probably missing some. There are all kinds of fun patches that can be a bit surprising. Don't assume that the 'Longs' patch is just the Sustain articulation from the 'Basics' patch. It often isn't exactly the same. For instance the Soprana Sax has a slur at the top in basics and a marcato on top in longs. Also the 'Basics' patch usually has Staccato and Marcato while the 'Shorts' patch might add short gliss or bend articulations as well or maybe that famous DuhDab articulation.
The Legatos work in general but take some getting used to. The Multi-Dynamic is what you expect, the Soft and Versatile are not. Note that the volume control activates the three types of legato, but you can control the volume with the mod wheel even though it is labeled 'Filter Open' and 'Filer Close'. Some of the SFZ-Cresc legatos seem to respond oddly to the mod wheel however. With some practice I think you can get some really cool legato lines out of all this, but it might take that practice to really get the feel. The Versatile legato has Run and sometimes something like Slur or Lazy. Wow lots of stuff. What makes this all work i think is that the transitions within an octave up and down all seem to be sampled. If like me you like to poke around in the guts of instruments, you can see the sample groups flash as you make the transition. This also explains the 5000 samples in some of the legato patches.
I've looked at the guts of a lot of instruments, played with scripts, listened to a lot of samples sample by sample and rarely have I been as impressed with the work that went into instruments as I am with the saxes in this product. Fun, cool, swinging saxes that sound lovely!