After downloading Discovery demo last night I have a question

The specs here say there are "more than 2,500 presets in 26 banks". When running through the presets I noticed that many of them are made up with 2 or 3 layers of single presets (i.e. multi-patches).

Does that 2,500 presets include 2,500 of those single layer patches? Or does this means that there are 500 single patches (for example) with 2,500 'multilayer' variations using them?

I'd like to know how many single layer patches there are bundled with Discovery?

I may be wrong but I imagine it to work in a similar way to SR Sonic Station where they have a stock of samples/sounds that are layered to produce different patches. So, the same samples could have been used many times over to produce diferent layered sounds. Of course theres nothing wrong with this. Its a great way to make up a complex sound but I am just curious how this reflects on the patch numbers shipped with Discovery

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2,500 presets include 2,500 of those single layer patches?

Yes. There are several banks who redistribute the patches into categories, but they are not counted as new ones (from bank 26 to 37).

We are still interested in people to make a full multilayered bank. Since the addition of the gate effect per layer in v2.2 you can produce even more impressive sounds.

George wrote:

Quote: 2,500 presets include 2,500 of those single layer patches? Yes. There are several banks who redistribute the patches into categories, but they are not counted as new ones (from bank 26 to 37). We are still interested in people to make a full multilayered bank. Since the addition of the gate effect per layer in v2.2 you can produce even more impressive sounds.

So, there are 2,500 single layer patches in banks 1 to 26, plus more multilayer patches (that make use of the 2,500 single layer patches) in banks 26 to 37? Is that right?

Blimey!

When you say a 'full multilayered bank' ....I assume you mean 128 multi layered sounds, where each sound uses up to 4 single patches?

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So, there are 2,500 single layer patches in banks 1 to 26, plus more multilayer patches (that make use of the 2,500 single layer patches) in banks 26 to 37? Is that right?

Bank 00 (Discofactory) multilayer, new features showcase, 01-25 single layer, 26 percussion and 27-37 resorted with some extra multis.

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When you say a 'full multilayered bank' ....

To be more precise: 128 patches where each sound uses from 2 to 4 layers each. A bank using 4 layers in all the patches should be called "The CPU Pig", thought.

George wrote:

Quote: So, there are 2,500 single layer patches in banks 1 to 26, plus more multilayer patches (that make use of the 2,500 single layer patches) in banks 26 to 37? Is that right? Bank 00 (Discofactory) multilayer, new features showcase, 01-25 single layer, 26 percussion and 27-37 resorted with some extra multis.

Wow, that's quite a factory bank!!

George wrote:

Quote: When you say a 'full multilayered bank' .... To be more precise: 128 patches where each sound uses from 2 to 4 layers each. A bank using 4 layers in all the patches should be called "The CPU Pig", thought.

Yes, I think we meant the same, just different terminology

Thanks for the help George!