IK Multimedia offer SampleTank FREE – a 500MB Virtual Sample Instrument for Mac and Windows
SampleTank Free, Sonic Reality
(MuseWire) – IK Multimedia this week announced a new “free” edition of their venerable SampleTank virtual instrument, appropriately called “SampleTank FREE.” With a 500MB sample library on tap, this free instrument rivals many classic ROMpler keyboards of the past for its base sound set, and is an ideal addition to anyone using min-keyboards, portable keyboards, or even full-on studios who are not already using a full-power version of SampleTank and want to try it out.
The new free version includes over 200 studio quality multi-sampled instruments, and you can easily add-on a wealth of professional libraries like Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog, SampleTron, and the Xpansion Tank libraries. SampleTank also imports wav, aiff, sdII, Akai S-1000/3000, and Samplecell files. Works as a standalone instrument, or as a plug-in for VST, RTAS, and audio units (AU).
Basic features:
SampleTank FREE features:
* Over 500 MB samples for over 200 sounds included
* 16 part multitimbral with easy layerable/mixable parts
* 3 synth engines:
– STRETCH™ (formant preserving pitch-shift/time-stretch)
– Polyphonic Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch (PS/TS)
– Resampling
* The most powerful multi-effects section in a virtual instrument:
– 5 insert effects per Part
– 5 Send effects
– Master effects
* 33 built-in DSP effects derived from award winning audio processors like T-RackS and AmpliTube
* Part and Master Loop Sync
* Can be expanded with: SampleTank 2.5 L and XL sounds and any “Powered by SampleTank” sound modules including Miroslav Philharmonik, Sonik Synth 2, SampleMoog, SampleTron
* Can be expanded with any Xpansion Tank 2 sounds
* Imports WAV, AIFF, SDII, AKAI S-1000/3000, SAMPLECELL
* Available both as a standalone application as well as a plug-in
* VST, RTAS, and AU on Mac OS X/Windows.
More information:
FEATURES:
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/sampletankfree/features/ .
INCLUDED FREE SOUNDS:
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/sampletankfree/sounds/ .
To celebrate this release, the folks at Sonic Reality / eSoundz who create sound sets for top music companies like IK and Roland, Kontakt, et al, are offering up to 75% off their own sound sets compatible with the free version of SampleTank. This vast offering includes everything from studio drums, film orchestra, Oberheim OB, ARP Solo, Mellotron, bass, and rare instruments.
For example, get an 800MB sample library of the wonderful Oberheim SEM, 4-voice, 8-voice, OB1, OBX, and Matrix 12, Xpander, etc., for just $25 in lieu of the normal $99 price (http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?ProductID=3766).
More information: http://www.esoundz.com/news1.php?nbr=5980 .
As these special pricing offers are for a limited time, the above links are subject to change.
Nov 4, 2010 @ 7:24 PM PDT
what’s the deal with having to run as administrator to save anything (gets annoying after a while)? otherwise, it’s very good and well worth the download (the sampletank samples are real good).
Nov 6, 2010 @ 6:32 PM PDT
Hi, ugo-capeto … the issue you’re referring to is an issue with the operating system, NOT the program. I ended up putting my samples on a second hard drive, and then setting the user permissions for that drive so that any user can write to it. Again, look at the instructions for your computer. This will be true of ALL software, and is a security feature to not allow insecure apps to write to parts of the system drive. Generally anything outside the /user/ folder on the system drive has special write permissions, which presumably you’re running on Windows 7 or Vista. RTFM, or do Google search on setting admin/user rights to your folders to allow programs to write to the folder(s).