A modulation matrix lets you get into some serious parameter manipulation. Inside you have control over envelopes, oscillators, portamento, polyphony and chose from 16 modelled filters. The GUI is now resizable which is great because the controls and parameters have often been a bit tiny. The sound editing was never the focus of SampleTank but there’s a decent amount there if you want to tweak your sounds. There’s an awful lot of sounds in here and I hope IK has beefed up the browser and filter options to make navigating this vast list comprehensible. There’s a huge acoustic piano, a range of electric pianos, a massive collection of synthesizer sounds, new brass and string sections and drum kits galore. Acoustic instruments have been captured with multiple articulations and round-robins for as authentic a performance as they can manage. The new content comes from record sessions in cities across the world and also in their new custom-built studio in Italy. You’ll probably need to buy a new hard disk just for this. I think that’s 5 times the size of the previous version. Not sure what your needs are and how much you care about various articulations etc.This new version now comes with 250GB of sound library filling the needs of 8,000 presets. Kontakt is the industry standard, but its factory library is meh in my opinion, and the super high quality stuff costs a lot. More expensive alternatives would be Kontakt and Halion. Not sure what is included in the Reason Rack VST plugin. If the SE version meets your needs, keep in mind that they were including it with their MIDI controllers, not sure if they still do, so if you're in the market for one, it may make sense to go that route.Īlso, I think they they recently released a free version of SampleTank, so check that out first.Ī cheap alternative could be Sforzando VST + Soundfonts (free, check out Timbres of Heaven or something like that), Air Structure or Xpand (both go on deep discounts, demos may be available on PluginBoutique). The list of instruments included in various versions is provided on their website. If you're eligible for the crossgrade you may want to go for the Max version right away. I use SampleTank Max with Reaper and it works fine.

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