Sounds Good? SampleTank 3 provides a very broad selection of sounds to work with and these are, by and large, very good, from stately grand pianos through fat synths, heavy drums, rumbling basses and orchestral instruments.
The use of synthesis alongside the sampled sounds means you can sculpt and shape timbres much more than you might imagine. You can tweak a whole range of things here including sample stretching, LFOs, filters, tuning, envelopes, polyphony, transposition and more, and there’s a useful part chooser on the right for navigation. The Edit section enables you to access the three synthesis engines (STRETCH, PS/TS and resampling), which control the way the samples are processed for playback. The master channel has five effect slots, too, for processing the main outs. The Mix section provides a good selection of controls that enable you to blend the 16 channels, route their outputs individually, and manage insert slots and panning. In standalone mode it can route these outputs to physical channels on your audio interface. Its operation is broadly the same in both modes, except that when run as a plug-in it will sync to the master host tempo and integrate its 32 available outputs into your DAW’s mixer. What’s New? Re-engineered as a 64-bit app, SampleTank 3 still works in standalone mode or as a plug-in. The question then becomes, what does this new version of SampleTank bring to the party? The short answer is: quite a lot. In the ten years since version 2 was released, technology has sprinted forward and there are now countless virtual instruments that use samples to generate sound. SampleTank was one of IK Multimedia’s first products, and helped to pioneer the use of sample-based ‘real’ instruments in the music technology world.
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