Sorry I am way down and this is the type thing I need. Maybe someone else does. I doubt it. Maybe I'll boot up Largo or something and mess with multi mode. Fck.

 

This feeling has passed. Thank you for your patience. Still. Gotta go multi mode with the various Waldorfs.

 

I too use multi-mode a lot, mainly with Waldorf and Access synths. Saves quite a bit of CPU and RAM.
Also, I find it easier to tweak sounds on one instance of some synth. Shame u-he synths don't have multi mode. Multi-mode Diva and Zebra would be so great. It would be really awesome to have more synths with multi-mode and multi-outputs.

Interesting multi-mode picture.

 

agree on all points. Seems like untapped potential, or something. I remember Largo had a few multi mode presets but not many.

 

Somehow, there's a belief that it's easier to handle many instances of mono-timbral synths. Somehow, people find it easier to click on different track instances than clicking a different MIDI channel on one synth. However, which type of handling is easier depends heavily on the DAW you use. I use Reaper and one multi-timbral instance can be easily routed however you want it, audio and MIDI. Talking of CPU and RAM resources, unless the synth is very well programmed and uses shared memory, having 8 instances of some synth will consume 8x memory and more CPU than one 8 multi-timbral instance.

 

Yeah, I totally get it ArcticStorm why you do it that way. Reaper is the most multi-mode user friendly DAW there is. I even made track templates with multi-mode setups of synths like Vavra and Osirus, so it's just a matter of loading the right track template.

As things are now, I actually have enough multi-mode synths (including all the hardware ones), but one sampler I love doesn't have it - TAL-Sampler, and it doesn't have a unified memory, either, so one instance consumes around 200MB and 10 2GB.

 

Last edited: Jun 2, 2025

Tis true. Tis true.