Some Terminology - Mutable Instruments Ambika Manual

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Some terminology...

A voice is a physical monophonic sound production device, consisting of digital oscillators,
CV sources, an analog VCF and a VCA. A voice is only capable of producing a single-note
sound. Ambika contains 6 voices, each of them being a physically different circuit board.
A part is one or many voices sharing the same synthesis settings. Ambika can manage up
to 6 parts. Each part stores its own synthesis, arpeggiator and sequencer settings. Each
part listens to a MIDI channel, and is assigned a range of keys on the keyboard.
Each of the 6 voices in Ambika needs to be linked to (assigned to) a part. This is a bit like
showing each musician (voice) in an orchestra which staff they must play on a musical
score! If you assign the 6 voices to the same part, Ambika will behave like a classic
monotimbral polysynth. If you assign each voice to a different part, Ambika will behave like
6 independent monophonic synths. If you want to play a bassline on the lower part of the
keyboard, and a brass riff on the upper part of the keyboard, you need to use two parts:
one part with 1 voice for the bass, and a second part with 5 voices for the brass sound.
A patch is a specific combination of synthesis settings stored into a part.
A program consists of a patch, and additional sequencer/arpeggiator settings.
A multi stores 6 programs (one for each part of Ambika) along with the mappings between
voices, parts, midi channels and keyboard range. This is a complete snapshot of the
Ambika configuration!