IK Multimedia Sampletank XL

Easy to install, but complicated by the system of protection by password
Indeed, it is essential to register with a code included with the software.

Then everything is ok

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

ATHLON 600
512 MB of RAM
2 * 20 go
Audigy ex

the app works fine with this config, but saturation there are many instruments jous by SampleTank and especially when the tracks are playing with a polyphony HIGH: no problem up to 6 instruments beyond, the risk of saturation .

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months and I particularly appreciate its simplicity.

the sounds are nice, better than my alesis nanosynth.

brass: yuck except low brass
Battery: nice, really good
guitars: electric: ok but do not deceive; Acoustic: ok, but can go right
the synths: nice
choirs: nice
Bass: I do not know, there are many sounds, but I have no benchmarks to compare
folk instruments: nice, especially the Indian flute and Okarina
conventional instruments: are ok but not solo
In short: ok but you have to improve the library with akai samples cd is much better.

As I'm not playing an instrument, I use SampleTank for playing midi files RALIS by other instruments and I change the way I want.

I chose this solution because I know I can use this software to 90% while an expander twice as expensive I use it only 50%: edition wave and the whole shebang ... blah not for me

Easy installation with an unnecessary over-protection ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Absolutely unstable software, I mexplique
c the only software that has managed to plant my g4 has three sounds from the violin, for it is software that is struggling to manage the sounds that last a little
j I was really disappointed ...

OVERALL OPINION

The sounds are not to fall backwards with respect to what is the
expanders can be found in the same current price ...
and I can swear that I have listened to a bunch ...
a d jv1010 OCCAZ it cost 450 euros c is cheaper / better / and it does not crash ...
j hope it has permetra buyers of such product not to be fooled ...

Installation without problem, but actually, overprotection, trs embtante (for the few ladies who were lost in this view).

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

On a PIVB with 512 MB and an RME in normal use (2, 3 instances with 4, 5 instruments each), Sampletank I have no problem except some sounds that puff abnormally CPU without provided the saturation of Manir basis. If the problem is too rcurant, I do a mixdown of the track, to relieve the CPU.
Put out this weird, everything is sporadic, this configuration works perfectly under Windows XP.

OVERALL OPINION

Sampletank is part of my virtual world for about 6 months. And I think is a good virtual expendeur in its price range, although the diversity of the quality of instruments is thunder. Some are mdiocres, other really well.
The possibility rcente can use standalone is also one more that I appreciate.