![]() SampleTank 4 runs as both a stand-alone application (useful for live performance) and as a multi-format plug-in. ![]() For the SE and standard versions, those numbers are 30GB/2000 instruments and 100GB/6000 instruments respectively, reflecting their different prices. For this review, I had access to the fully-loaded MAX version which offers 250GB of samples spread across some 8000 instruments. All use the new front-end but are supplied with different sizes of sound library. SampleTank 4 is now available in three editions SE, the 'standard' and MAX. However, while IK have delivered lots of new features and refinements to the user interface, they have also done a pretty good job of retaining SampleTank's 'easy-to-use' tag. Alongside the collection of samples, therefore, it provides a sample-based virtual instrument with 16-part multitimbral capabilities, support for multi-layer, multi-articulation, sampled instruments, and playback of audio and MIDI loops (patterns). Let's start by confirming that the underlying SampleTank concept remains firmly intact. ![]() So, what does v4 bring to tempt the music producer looking for that perfect sound source workhorse? What's In The Tank? IK Multimedia have now introduced SampleTank 4 with new features and new samples. That's not a criticism simply an observation because, for certain groups of potential users, that's exactly what they are looking for. It perhaps lacked the glamour, cutting-edge quirkiness, or sample-editing depth of some more targeted, genre-specific virtual instruments, but the sounds span orchestral to EDM and it ticks the 'jack-of-all-trades' box very firmly. With its easy-to-use interface and broad, very useable sound palette, SampleTank 3.5 provided a workmanlike virtual instrument that would make a great starting point for those building a music production system. ![]() We last looked at SampleTank back in the SOS August 2015 issue. IK Multimedia's newly updated one-stop sample shop is bigger and better than ever. Parts View allows you to load up to 16 individual instruments into a single instance of SampleTank 4.
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