![]() ![]() The replacement is certainly bigger, adding a further 2GB of sound data to Sampletank 1's existing 2.5GB library, but that's only the start: it also adds an impressive array of new features, new effects and a thoroughly revised interface, plus support for Mac OS X. I've been a fan of IK Multimedia's Sampletank virtual sound module since I first reviewed it in SOS August 2001, and it's still my first port of call for bread-and-butter sounds, especially drum kits and electric basses but more than two years on, it's now been replaced by Sampletank 2, which IK have been heralding with much ado for a while now. Sequels are usually bigger and more expensive than the original, but as anyone who's sat though Blues Brothers 2000 will know, they aren't always better. ![]() ![]() Two years on, there are plenty of fully featured software samplers and non-sampling virtual instruments too. Sampletank was a hit - a sample-based virtual instrument with great sounds and, at the time, not much competition. IK's Sampletank 2 running under Steinberg's Cubase SX2. ![]()
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