LIBRARY EXPANSION. While you are given a generous selection of instruments to get you started it doesn’t stop there. Sampletank 2 takes advantage of the vast resources of IK Multimedia’s sound library and presents you with a wide selection of additional sound libraries you can purchase direct from the device. The new Xpansion Tank 2 series is a line of 30 new expansion packs for SampleTank. Each XT2 has around 1 GB of loops or sounds, in genres from folk to.
So I just picked up the IK Multimedia Studio Bundle 3 on sale for 100 bucks. I've never used any IK VI's before, so any help you could give me here would be great. In my downloads I have available Sampletank 2 XL, and Sampletank 3 Free. Also included in the bundle are 15 Xpansion Tank 2 packs. Which version of Sampletank should I use, does 3 Free have any advantage over 2 XL? Will the Xpansion Tank 2 packs open up in 3 Free?
Thanks in advance:-) IK´s VIs are pretty musically sounding stuff. Have used it for a long time myself. As you have got the full version of Sampletank 2XL+15 Expansions you probably will have enough sounds for all purposes in the future:D. Anyway there´s a problem too. You can´t use the Sampletank 2 engine/player with PT 11 as it is 32bit only. What you can use however will be all sound libraries which come with Sampletank XL 2 as well as all the Expansion Tanks. Unfortunately not with the free version of Sampletank 3.
The free Sampletank 3 can only be used with the small selection of the Sampletank 3 Free sounds. Means, if you would want to use all your sound libraries you have got with your package, you at least will have to buy Sampletank 3 SE (which is a limited version) or the full version of Sampletank 3. From my personal experience with all the Sampletank stuff I would rather recommend to go for the full version of ST3 as with this one you will be on the safe side as to all your Sampletank 2 sounds. With the full Sampletank 3 you definitely will be able to use all your libraries.
There is an upgrade from Sampletank 2 to Sampletank 3. (for US costumers it´s better to buy it from Sweetwater than from the IK Webstore because of high EU taxes-IK Webstore is Italy based actually) By buying the full version of Sampletank 3 you additionally will get tons of new sampled, freshly produced sounds too. So finally you would have enough sounds 'for life';) (together with all the ST2+Expansion Tank sounds).
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The libraries include everything from beautifully sampled Pianos, Basses, even Vocals, Strings to tons of Loops etc. Because you already have got the whole Sampletank 2 stuff+all the Expansions it will really make sense to upgrade to the full ST3. This will allow you to use it all finally. Wishing you the very of success and much fun with Sampletank, VRW Mac Mini i7Quad, 16GB Ram, MBP Mid 2012 2,5GHz i5, 16GB Ram, Mac OSX 10.10.1 Yosemite, Apogee Quartet+Duet 2 Genelec Active, Yamaha NS10, Pro Tools 11.3, Logic 10.0.7, Waves, MCDSP, Duende Native, HOFA, IK Multimedia, NI etc. Thanks for the reply VRW, much appreciated.
I opted to go for Sampletank 3 SE to test all of this out with and see what I think. Total investment for the whole lot was 200 bucks, so I feel I got my money's worth. I had wanted to get T-Racks, the stock Amplitube 3 collection, and Classik Studio Reverbs anyway, but wasn't gonna pay full price for any of those so it was a nice bargain! I got Miroslav Philharmonik loaded into Sampletank 3 SE last night and started playing around a bit, not bad! And, I was wondering why I wasn't paying tax on my purchase, as I'd heard in other threads about it being quite a bit.
It seems that IK Multimedia has an office or perhaps just a payment center setup in Sunrise, FL (USA), so there was no tax on my purchase. Thanks for the reply VRW, much appreciated. I opted to go for Sampletank 3 SE to test all of this out with and see what I think. Total investment for the whole lot was 200 bucks, so I feel I got my money's worth.
I had wanted to get T-Racks, the stock Amplitube 3 collection, and Classik Studio Reverbs anyway, but wasn't gonna pay full price for any of those so it was a nice bargain! I got Miroslav Philharmonik loaded into Sampletank 3 SE last night and started playing around a bit, not bad!
And, I was wondering why I wasn't paying tax on my purchase, as I'd heard in other threads about it being quite a bit. It seems that IK Multimedia has an office or perhaps just a payment center setup in Sunrise, FL (USA), so there was no tax on my purchase. The IK stuff is definitely nice; long time user. With Sampletank 3 you'll have to do an import to get it to see/use the libraries you just purchased. I don't know if the SE version will do that so you may end up going to the full ST3 which is worth it. Be aware that there are various levels of Amplitube 3 available that are all considered stock. If you get any add-ons for AT3 the Fender collection is one of the better ones they do; Ampeg ain't too bad either.
Sampletank 3 SE can in fact import legacy instruments, I made sure of that before I bought it so that I could load all of this stuff in. I tested it out with Miroslav last night and it worked great. The collection I bought came with Ampeg SVX, but I had already owned it anyway:p It's the only bass amp modeler I've used that I've really liked for rock/metal bass. I may end up picking up the Fender pack, or at least just the Twin Reverb head, although the stock pack I bought came with a few 'based on Fender XXX' amps. I tried a few of them out last night as well and they will get the job done.
Between that and Scuffham S-Gear, I think I have the modeling I'll need covered for now. S-Gear is amazing actually, wish I'd found it sooner. Quick question for you Sampletank 3 users. So, I installed ST 3 SE, and and can open it fine on a VI track in PT.
I'm importing the legacy instruments that came with the bundle I bought, and each time I load one in, the memory usage meter in PT goes up more and more, eventually pegging out to 100% and throwing the physical memory error. This is without actually even loading up a library at all, the memory usage grows JUST from importing the libraries. Is there some sort of database that is getting loaded that is hogging the memory? Granted, I only have 8 gigs installed right now (I have 8 more on the way), but it seems really strange that the session memory usage keeps going up without actually loading anything into the sampler. Anyone else seen this?
PT 11.3 running on OSX 10.9.5. Sampletank 3 SE version 3.3.0. Ok, this is bizarre but, whatever.
So as I was importing each legacy library, the memory usage was going up. However, I hadn't imported in the stock Sampletank 3 SE libraries yet, so I did that. I then continued importing in more legacy libraries, and the memory usage increase stopped. So, I removed the VI, and restarted PT, and voila.memory usage was back down to seemingly normal. So, if anyone in the future sees this problem, load in the stock Sampletank 3 libraries first, and then load in the legacy libraries.
If I see any more issues I'll report back. Ok, this is bizarre but, whatever. So as I was importing each legacy library, the memory usage was going up. However, I hadn't imported in the stock Sampletank 3 SE libraries yet, so I did that. I then continued importing in more legacy libraries, and the memory usage increase stopped. So, I removed the VI, and restarted PT, and voila.memory usage was back down to seemingly normal. So, if anyone in the future sees this problem, load in the stock Sampletank 3 libraries first, and then load in the legacy libraries.
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If I see any more issues I'll report back. Good you got it sorted but you shouldn't have to import in the stock ST3 library; at least I didn't.
I only had to import in the Brit Horns library I have for ST2.5 - that's the only non-stock library I have at this point.