SampleTank 4 adds 13 new effects – for a total of 70 – which have all been derived from the company’s AmpliTube and T-RackS software. It lets you access all the available effects, and you can mix an entire track in one window, keeping you focused on the music. While I never got around to mixing with SampleTank 3, because the interface looked confounding, I must say SampleTank 4’s mixer is an example of how a good interface can make a difference. SampleTank’s layering and mixing capabilities are further made more efficient by a new Parts interface, which offers visual indications of each loaded sample, and easy access to volume, pan, mute, and solo controls. In one word: SampleTank’s sound browser is extremely efficient and a joy to work with.

And detailed descriptions of each sound, effects and macro provide all the information you need at a glance. The redesigned sound browser has an advantage over the older one: it not only allows you to select samples based on sub-library – SampleTank 4 only, SampleTank 3, Syntronik… etc – but also to filter them by timbre, style, genre, mood, and more. The other half seems to have been recorded on later dates.įar from sounding inferior, those older samples do sometimes seem less efficient CPU-wise with the new ones seemingly having been recorded specifically with processing optimisation in mind.

IK Multimedia says that: “SampleTank 4’s new library is the product of dozens of carefully conducted recording sessions in multiple cities across Europe and the United States as well as in our new, custom-built recording facility in Modena, Italy.” I went through every sub-library in SampleTank 4’s hugely improved sound browser and found that about half of the sounds have been available from SampleTank 3. It costs an extra 30 Euros, which is worth the money in my opinion.

Ed.: IK Multimedia informed me they do have a drive with all the sounds preloaded, which, apparently, I overlooked on their website. I think IK Multimedia could successfully charge a little extra for a pre-loaded hard disk drive or an SSD containing all those samples in my opinion, people would gladly pay a small premium for not having to spend hours and hours downloading this much data. It took me the better part of two whole days to get the over 260 GB and 8,000 instrument presets on my local hard disk. I first downloaded the whole SampleTank MAX sound library.

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