multitimbral

[DeFex]

it depends how you do music. it is much faster to change a midi channel to an allready set voice than to do a program change. you might have a few voices only used a couple of times for effects or whatever. if they are already set then you dont have to wait for a program change.

[thomas]

I made a patch once that took up all it's voices when only playing 2 notes simultanious. It was a pad with unison set to 8..

[annikk.exe]

I was first introduced to synths by way of my friend James, who owned a Korg something or other, a digital beasty with very limited programming capabilities. It was multitimbral of course..

When I came to buying my own synth, I went for a Korg MS2000 and the biggest disappointment was realising it could only play 1-2 sounds at the same time (2 if using multimode). This left me extremely limited in scope for writing songs...

I think the Virus is much better as a main workhorse synth. Anyway as all these kind people have already pointed out, you're not about to walk into the same trap as I did. :>


-Annikk

[Innovine]

Seems like I will do ok. My plan is to sequence it with a command station and do as much as possible live, so the amount of tracks and voices it can do at once is more important for me than for someone say recording and overdubbing sounds in a DAW. But if it can do a couple of tracks at the same time, that's probably fine for me!!