multitimbral

[Innovine]

While surfing around and reading about the Virus I came across the following, and wondering if anyone would care to explain further what is meant?

"Lastly, the Virus has always been 16 parts multitimbral for multilayered patches and ensemble performances. However, up until the Virus TI, this aspect of the Virus has been severely flawed and is often considered unusable because of the polyphonic limitations of the Virus A, B and C and the lack of analogue outputs on the synth."


I am getting confused between the polyphony and number of voices and multitimbral and multilayers. I want to have, for example, a virus playing a bassline, a pad and a lead on 3 different midi channels. It can do this, right? Can it do 16 different voicings like this? I understand if this number starts to go down if i have sounds that are actually multiple layers of sounds. A couple of concrete examples with numbers for the Virus C would be A HUGE help for me!!!