And since it uses the same set of built-in effects, a given patch sounds essentially identical in the two 'synths'. In the course of looking into this, I figured out that all of Syntronik's synth UIs are just a re-skinning of the Sampletank's 'Edit Instrument' UI, sometimes with different scales on a control, but with equivalent range and increments.

why isn't Syntronik seeing its own multis? I haven't yet installed any of Smapletank's sound sets, so everything it's seeing is from the Syntronik installation. Likewise, a 4-layer keyboard patch in Sampletank had only the single layer for which the patch was named in Syntronik though it's capable of layering up to 4 sounds, I believe.

I was curious what the situation would be for the same patches in Syntronik, but when I looked at the basses, I found that the browser only offered the two 6-velocity patches separately, not the two-layer 'multis'. This seems like a major patch-programming oversight.? Subsequently, I found other patches with as many as 4 layers with only the first one sounding because layers 2, 3, and 4 were on channels 2, 3, and 4. Specifically, there are several 12-velocity bass patches that consist of two 6-velocity layers using high-velocity and and low-velocity sample sets. After some head-scratching I figered out that the higher velocity samples were loaded into a second layer that was assigned to channel 2 by default. I was playing around with Syntronik 'patches' loaded in Sampletank, and found that some patches were silent above a certain velocity.

To avoid further hijacking of Joe Bradford's post about Sampletank crashing, I decided to post this separately.

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