garyed
I think i understand now but I didn't realize it was that involved with soft synths. I'm more used to using external synths so I'll just have to get used to this type of setup. I do remember it took me a while to work with gigastudio years ago but I never did much with it.
Yup, years ago I worked with Roland, Korg, and Alesis external hardware synths. The multi-timbral mode was usually accessed as a multi, performance, or combi mode, which allowed a MIDI channel to be assigned to each of the 8 or 16 programs in the multi-timbral mode. This allowed assignment of full programs to each slot, not just oscillators.
There are modern soft synth samplers available that can do the virtual equivalent of this, but most of them are not cheap!
If you are looking for an inexpensive, quality, 4-part soft synth rompler solution to get started with, I can recommend this for $1.
https://www.audiodeluxe.com/products/virtual-instruments/air-xpand2