I'm thinking you mean building a swell, with multiple hits like a drummer would, rather than reversing the decay like Hendrix did, I dunno though.
If I'm think the missing ingredient to the natural sound here may be to soften the hit my using a slow attack. It will make the stick sound disappear.
It doesn't really matter what you use. If you don't have EZ or AD, you can do the same thing with shortcircuit. Come to think of it I don't know if you can do that in EZ, but you can in AD, and this is how
Look at the Volume attack slope - and combine this with EvilDragon's suggestion