Sampletank (IK Multimedia) group buy - $49.99 (or less with Jampoints)

[Cognition]

CURRENTLY 5 for the price of 1

For $49.99 (or down to half of that if you have IK Multimedia jam points to spend)

You get Sampletank 2.5 which is not feature limited in any way, except you only get a 1gb library of sounds with it.

You also get to choose 5 (hopefully soon 6) expansion packs with sounds from Sonic Reality.

If you get it from Esoundz you get 1 additional expansion pack (about 1gb) with "exclusive" content.

Esoundz:
http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?ProductID=4293
(if you input "cognition" as referrer we'll both get esoundz points)

IK Multimedia:
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/Main.html?xtgroupbuy/index.php


Sound sample of me improvising with some of the presets in "Cinematic Collection":
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049335/Jon Cognition - Sampletank Cinematic Demonstration.mp3


My review
Some of the sounds are a bit basic if you're used to high end stuff like East West Quantum Leap, but you can't beat the price (and it's easy on the CPU). Sampletank also comes with excellent effects using technology from T-Racks, Amplitube and CSR Reverb and such, and I find a lot of the sounds can ba made very usable by putting them through an effect treatment. My favourite pack so far is the Cinematic Collection, which has some really dynamic "orchestral meets sound design" stuff going on that will nicely complement my East West stuff.

 

[guitaristenrage]

Nobody seemed to be interested when I posted the link...

 

[updog]

I was mildly interested, but all the clips sound like shit!

The pianos sounded nice though

 

[Cognition]

The demos are not extremely impressive.

And some of the sounds are very basic.

But it's very intuitive to tweak them, and many of the more basic sounds can be made quite useful, particularly in a mix context.

Personally I think the Cinematic Collection was worth the price alone. But I agree the official demo for it sucks.

I'll see if I can put something together and post though to illustrate some of the stuff I personally like.

 

[Norris-wf]

That would be pretty cool if you could, I'd be interested in hearing what you could do with it

 

[updog]

The demos are not extremely impressive.

And some of the sounds are very basic.

But it's very intuitive to tweak them, and many of the more basic sounds can be made quite useful, particularly in a mix context.

Personally I think the Cinematic Collection was worth the price alone. But I agree the official demo for it sucks.

I'll see if I can put something together and post though to illustrate some of the stuff I personally like.

Yeah man, that would be awesome! I was actually interested in the Cinematic Collection as well, but the sound clips were terribly unimpressive. But if I were to choose 4, I'd probably take that, pianos, strings and vocals. The vocal pack had the worst example clip ever though.

 

[egan.]

I've used sampletank on every daylight dies record. Granted we aren't keyboard centric but I guess it's worth noting.

 

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

Thanks for posting this. We're approaching the 4x1 mark nicely, and I hope we hit it soon.

As far as audio examples go, this probably isn't much better but I had a mission to quickly put together something close to a particular sound (and sorry, it isn't metal at all) and chose Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part I... using sounds from Cinematik, SampleOB Xpander, and Vintage Keys ONLY from this Group Buy I put the following clip together. I used one sound from each pack for the pad and only one sound from the OB pack for the lead. Mind the few seconds of silence at the beginning - I also only took a few minutes to tweak the export http://storage.tinytoaster.com/STShine.mp3

EDIT - egan. - very nice! Thanks for letting people know, and I really like it!

 

[updog]

^ That sounded like the opening piece for some mid-80's action movie. But at that, it was actually pretty damn convincing!

 

[Cognition]

I won't be able to do record anything tonight since I'll be busy with band practice.

But here is something I put together within the first few minutes of playing with "Cinematic Collection". Musically it's not very interesting, and I was never intending to share it, but I'm sure you'll hear that there is a lot of potential in some of the sounds used. Obviously here they're used a bit over the top, but I'm thinking that some of these can sound pretty wicked in a mix together with East West Quantum Leap or something.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049335/Jon - Messing around with Sampletank Cinematic.mp3

This is with no tweaking, no producing, no effects (maybe delay/reverb within Sampletank).

 

[Cognition]

I've recorded a demonstration of Sampletank "Cinematic Collection". It's just me improvising with a bunch of the presets.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049335/Jon Cognition - Sampletank Cinematic Demonstration.mp3

 

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

Nice work! We're over 1,500 now, by the way so 4x1 is ON and 2,500 gets you all 5x1! That's lower than I expected, to be honest - so take advantage of this and maybe it will be 6x1 at a lower threshold than expected.

 

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

Over 2000 in now so we're going to 5x1 soon!

 

[Cognition]

This has reached 5 for the price of 1 now.

And if you join through Esoundz you can choose an additional bonus library on top of that.

 

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

Since the page didn't update yet - 4,000 is the goal for 6x1. Spread the word!

 

[Peter - IK Multimedia]

This is almost SIX for one now - should hit it today. I think this is a true no-brainer