Bill, and with all due respect, what I can assure you of is that the note polyphony (as in the number of notes that can be played and NOT the number of samples being used) on a hardware based synth is DIRECTLY related to the number of oscillators which use the audio samples contained in the ROM. Its what passes these days for the older VCO's. They have just dropped the DC from the DCO. It is the same thing.

Its the software, or VSTi-DXi that can use samples with no oscillators required, which can therefore provided a theoretical unlimited amount of polypony depending on RAM and CPU.

This is also why manufacturers cannot increase poly with a software update. It is the fundamental architecure of a synth, even one that uses only samples.

Even if you sample your own sound it has to assigned, either by you or the 'board, to an oscillator to play.

If you don't believe me, just ask the engineers at Korg, Roland or Yamaha et al! ( I did!!)

Sorry to have to disagree with you, but you are either wrong, or you are misunderstanding what I was saying in my previous post, in your statement.

Dennis