Multitimbral

An electronic musical instrument may be multitimbral, which means it can produce two or more timbres (also called sounds or patches) at the same time. Instruments which may be multitimbral include synthesizers, samplers, and music workstations. A multitimbral instrument might be configurable in a variety of ways:Splitting the keyboard at a given point allows a musician to play, for example, a bass sound with the left hand and a piano sound with the right hand.Layering timbres allows a musician to play, for example, a pipe organ sound and a string ensemble sound together.Combinations of keyboard splits and layers may be possible.An external sequencer might play an accompaniment of bass and drum sounds on the instrument (actuated through MIDI) while the musician plays a piano part on the keyboard of the same instrument.
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