Multitimbral Playback

A multi has 16 parts, each an independent instrument. A new multi has only Part 1 active.

Parts are managed in the PARTS tab of the edit screen sidebar. Each active part has a card. Add Part activates the next inactive part.

Choosing which part plays

The channel mode button in the header, OMNI, MPE or Ch/Oct, sets how all parts use MIDI channels.

Omni: each part’s MIDI button sets the channel it listens to, either Omni for all channels or Channel 1 to Channel 16. Part N starts on channel N.
Channel/Octave: every part plays on every channel, and the channel shifts the note. Channels 1 to 8 shift up 0 to 7 octaves; channels 9 to 16 shift down 8 to 1 octaves. With a microtuning loaded, an octave is the scale’s repeat interval.
MPE: every part plays on every channel. See MPE.

The PARTS panel menu has Set All to Omni and Set to Incremental MIDI Channels, and chooses between Expanded Display, where each card shows the part’s description, and Compressed Display, where the description shows when you hover over the card.

The part card

Name: click to rename.
M and S: mute and solo. A muted part does not respond to new notes.
MIDI: the part’s channel, in Omni mode.
Level and Pan
OUT: where the part’s output goes. See Routing.
Voice limit: the most voices the part can play, from 4 to 512.
Tuning: in semitones, -36 to +36.
Transpose: shifts incoming notes by -36 to +36 keys before zones are chosen.

Right-click the card or its name for the part menu. The PARTS panel menu has the same items for the selected part.

Load Part… and Reload Part, which goes back to the file on disk.
Save Part, Save Part As…, Save Part as Monolith… and Save Part with Collected Samples…
Initialize Part: empties the part, keeping its MIDI channel and output.
Delete Part: deactivates the part.
Duplicate Part: copies the part into the first inactive part.
Copy Part and Paste Part

Paste replaces the part with the copy, including its name, description, groups, macros and part FX. The part keeps its own MIDI channel and output. Click a card and use Cmd/Ctrl+C and Cmd/Ctrl+V to do the same from the keyboard.

Part settings

With the PARTS tab selected, the SETTINGS tab beside MACROS holds Default Articulation: the latching keyswitch the part arms when no other is live. Lowest Group is the default. See Trigger Conditions.

Saving and loading parts

A part saves to a .scp file. Save Part writes back to the file the part came from, with no dialog. Save Part As… refers to samples where they are, Save Part with Collected Samples… copies them to a folder beside the file, and Save Part as Monolith… stores them inside the file.

Dropping a .scp file on a part card replaces that part.