As things progressed SampleTank introduced the ability to play and manipulate audio drum loops and grooves further enhancing the existing performance capabilities. Included in the library were pianos,acoustic and electric guitars, drum kits, world instruments and special effects. SampleTank allowed you to have a virtual workstation of sorts that provided a large instrument library covering numerous musical styles. What the Korg M1 did to change the hardware landscape, IK Multimedia accomplished in the virtual instrument arena with the original SampleTank. Until that time the concept of having a workstation was relegated to hardware instruments. The promise of high quality sounds with the ability to use them in new and innovative ways inside your computer were the dreams of most musicians of the day.
The concepts of virtual instruments was just catching on. Obviously they want you to buy more library and this is a good approach tempting you into their product range.In 2001 IK Multimedia introduced the world to the first SampleTank. After a reinstall and general messing about some of the sounds will now load but most still fail so there does seem to be some sort of glitch going on – ho hum.Īnyway, we always like free stuff and IK have been pretty generous here. Other sound packs seem to work fine though. If you have SampleTank Free already installed then you’ll also have to run a library updater to sort that out although I’ve found that after the update the sounds appear but they all fail to load. You have to have an IK account which is where you’ll find the authorisation serial number. There’s a bit of shenanigans required to get it to work. The Custom Shop is the same shop as that used for Amplitude and T-Racks, they’ve simply bolted on a SampleTank tab so you have all your IK product options on one place. You can also import existing libraries from older IK instruments such as SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2 and SampleTron so you can get all your IK sounds into the one 64bit interface and take full advantage of the editing and processing. The expansions available in the Custom Shop come from the whole range of IK material including American Acoustic, Neil Peart Drums, Cinematic Percussion, Miroslav Philharmonik 2, Future Synths – there’s currently 24 expansions starting from $29.99. So in a nutshell rather than being a cut down and limited player of a handful of sounds this is the full-on real version of SampleTank 3 with two handfuls of sounds with the potential to add a whole lot more. This includes a full selection of filters, modulators, LFOs and envelopes along with an arsenal of 55 studio-quality effects. It’s been unlocked so that it has the complete editing functionality of the full version. SampleTank 3 Custom Shop comes loaded with 30 free instruments, 1.8GB of sounds, 81 MIDI patterns and 2 loop kits.
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