don't worry, i know all these things, i programmed my own libraries too for a huge amount of brands (including the pa4x). I'm more experienced in this area then you would expect, even though i never demo or talk about it online.AntonySharmman wrote: My reference is always sampler engine , even for vintage synths I have a complete collection of sampled waveforms of natural cyclic duration of them.
So contrary to any Kronos/Motif/Nord stage sampler , in Pa5X you can combine 24 OSC X 3 upper layers , so you have per single SOUND , 24 X stereo
OSC/Filters/LFO/AMS/ADSR/PEG plus global PEG & LFO that you can model anything you want , and just imagine all those X 3 in sound combination in KBD
SETs where each Sound works as a timbre with different articulation and controllers , this is unique for any hardware sampler keyboard.
I have developed very sophisticated real instruments and Symphonic Orchestras with over 50 OSC in common in 3 upper layers of KBD Sets.
I can understand mentioned limitations but valid for Kronos HD1 with Triton program interface , where Karma & rich Combination features balance somehow
the lacking of HD1 Program interface.
I have to note that I never use factory resources , I always built all resources from scratch in any Korg product I've ever purchased since its a rule IMO
that all factory resources are too poor at any level , so I'm always talking about potentials in Korg keyboards and not factory sound development level !
I do understand why you are saying these things, for your kind of libraries these features are important on a sample level for realistic orchestral sounds. I'm more focusing on the synthesis part of things and in those cases you don't need 24 oscillators for a sound, only some velocity layers and a couple of samples per octave are for my kind of sounds more then enough, the rest is done with synthesis techniques in my case.
