Virus powercore has 16 voices of polyphony and like you said, the polyphony reduces if you use the 3rd oscillator. This happens with every virus. Also unison uses your voices. If you set it to twin, you have max. 8 voices. So altough you had a powercore pci mk2 with 150MHz dsp's, virus uses just 100MHz and the 16 voice polyphony is the max you can get. You can use all the fx in the virus, turning them on/off don't reduce or give any more polyphony. So, it works like Virus B but has less polyphony. Anyway, you should always get 16 voices, if you don't use unison or the 3rd oscillator.
If you want to play big pads or leads with unison, you can expect to get note dropouts.
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