![]() ![]() So, with v3.5, have IK Multimedia bought SampleTank right up to date so it can slug it out against the obvious sample-based virtual instrument competition? What’s In The Tank? By modern music technology standards, that’s a pretty lengthy upgrade cycle. A little over 10 years later, SampleTank 3 has now appeared (and, indeed, during the course of writing this review, v3.5 was released, so it’s this incarnation of the software that I’ve looked at here). If you were a SampleTank fan back then, you’ll have had to wait quite some time for the next major update. The last time SOS looked at SampleTank was quite some time ago when we reviewed SampleTank 2 back in February 2004. This catalogue includes SampleTank, a sample-based virtual instrument that is 16-part multitimbral, provides support for multi-layer, multi-articulation sampled instruments, can play back both audio and MIDI loops (patterns) and is supplied with a broad palette of sounds that cover all the major instrument groups. The company make competitively priced hardware add-ons for music production and also have a line of software that includes the popular virtual guitar rig AmpliTube, a number of virtual instruments and the T-Racks range of audio effects/processors. IK Multimedia will be well known to many SOS readers. Learn how to make tight, radio-ready mixes with the STOCK plugins in your DAW.Eleven years is a long time in software, so the new version of SampleTank ought to be pretty impressive. I'll try it out fairly often just hoping for the chance to JUSTIFY downloading it, but something else ALWAYS works better no matter what the genre or the application is. I'm probably gonna get rid of Syntronik and reclaim some precious space(40 GIGS!) because it doesn't ever make the cut. But they haven't seemed very inspired lately other than to worry about making music solutions for amateurs on mobile phones and iPads. ![]() ![]() Back in the day, T-RackS, Miroslav Philharmonik, Sonik Synth 2, and AmpliTube were some of my most-used plugins(along with AAS Lounge Lizard and EastWest Bosendorfer 290). In fact, IK Multimedia has become rather "unnecessary" to me for the last decade or so. If I can't get this to properly work with Band-In-A-Box as "Hi-Q instruments", then I don't need it as I've never been impressed with "SampleStank" when compared to Kontakt as a sampler solution. ![]()
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