with 4 parts per bank you could have 4x16 per project. (so that’s 64 “parts” per project.)
if you were just doing 8 different drum hits per part (like T1 = kick, T2=snare, etc…) you could have 64 kits per project. here each part can be a “KIT”
BUT… (and this is a big ol’ booty!!):
You could do sample chains on a per track basis, too. So, 8x sample chains per part. (and slice them)
Now you’re getting into exponential kits.
If you had only 10 kicks, 10 snares, etc, per sample chain, multiplied by 8 tracks, you could have up to 800 variations of kits per part to choose from and use the patterns within each bank to create KITS via slices. Pattern one, for instance, plays SLICE 1 from each chain, pattern 2 plays slice 2, and so on… So you could have 16 kits stored per part. A hybrid pattern-kit could play T1 slice 1, T2 slice 9, T3 slice 4 or whatever.
i believe what i just said is all true. im going to wrap my head around what i just typed for a second. I got sweaty thinking that through.
edit: i suppose this is totally beyond the ‘how to turn OT into a TR-8’ scope. this was more of a ‘how-to-create-a-giant-drum-kit-monster’
…and am i right on the 800? oh jeez. i’m not deleting this until i try and fail to create this beast.