All user reviews of 3/5 for the IK Multimedia Sampletank 2 XL

OK, no problem

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Ragit well my triturations. Crashes from time to time, nothing mchant, but it's true that a can soon eat the prcesseur ...! (My PC config PIV2.4Ghz, 512MB, Asus motherboard)

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 1 year, and overall, as I read before, it was the right thing, I am not below average.

But I am not above not because of this quality that makes his famous default: the effects section. She is super efficient (in fact we would like to use it outside of the software, for example the audio ...) and needed to do better with the sounds of bases sometimes downright means (of both ZrO ...).

The problem for me is that I am far from being the king of fignoloage with sound effects and I ended not going crazy grind small knobs of the small interface with my mouse ...! !

Probably with a controller I have more fun ... I will change my rating if has been confirmed ...

This VST installed nicely and quickly and has worked nicely on both of my computers. I have used it on a low end computer (1.8GHZ pentium and 1gb ram) as well as my current (2.5GHZ Core2Quad & 4GB ram) and it runs decently on both. On the low end PC it does suffer some delay and latency in the sound but other than that it is pretty fine. The lbirary is easily accessable and nice to use, and is operated via folders on display on the GUI of the VST. It is nicely organised into instrument types and then the actual instruments. It works nicely in both of the DAW's that I use, Ableton and FL Studio.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

This software works well in FL Studio with no hiccups, however I have to run Ableton Live in administrator mode to get it to work, otherwise Ableton will display it as an unsupported vst. The bank of stock sounds that comes with Sampletank is very decent and is very good for acoustic instruments. The CPU load is pretty low too so there is no problems with stacking up sounds. The memory usage is also low for a VST of the nature that it is, it has hundreds upon hundreds of preset sounds in the library. There seems to be a problem with stability though, as this VST has crashed FL multiple times upon loading. I'm not sure if it is specific patches causing this or the VST itself.

OVERALL OPINION

I love some of the sounds on offer from this VST, especially the guitars and some of the strings. However the other acoustic sounds, most notably the pianos, on offer are extremely flat and dry. These sounds are designed for layering. I cannot seem to find a search function on the VST too, this makes finding patches previously used an absolute nightmare. I would still get this VST though knowing what I know now. Just a pre caution, make sure you know how to compress and EQ your sounds correctly before you purchase this VST.