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IK Multimedia
SampleTank is designed for fast access to sounds, through both the 16 category buttons to the right of the display (piano, organ, guitar, etc.) and the built-in search command, which will retrieve any sound stored on your hard disk or CD-ROM drive. The instrument is capable of up to 128-voice polyphony. It also offers four effects generators, with 15 different algorithms, and a choice of four stereo outputs, which can be configured as eight mono outs. IK Multimedia expects to ship SampleTank in June 2000. Tentative suggested retail is $299 when bundled with a 128-MB sound library, or $499 with a 500-MB sound library. |
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The manufacturer that gave us T-Racks and GrooveMaker showed SampleTank at the Messe. This software sound module combines a sampler/synth engine with multisampled sounds in a VST instrument. The software equivalent of a sample-playback-based sound module, SampleTank gives the user limited access to sound parameters (only four "quick edit" parameters per patch) but loads quickly and allows users to load a 32-MB bank into 16Mb through a real-time compression algorithm that doubles RAM space. An Akai library conversion utility will be bundled with the program.