Introducing the affordable and fully functional special edition of the next generation sound workstation Announcing the release of, an introductory special edition of IK's flagship sound and groove workstation for Mac/PC. Available as a standalone program or as bundled software with iRig KEYS, iRig KEYS with Lightning, iRig KEYS PRO, iRig MIDI 2, iRig Pads and iRig PRO, it gives users the freedom to experiment with a completely functional 6.5 GB library of 400 high-quality instruments, over 250 loops and 150 MIDI patterns that illustrate the broad sonic versatility of SampleTank 3. Featuring 64-bit compatibility, a completely redesigned user interface, 55 high-quality effects, new loop and groove management and a retooled sample engine, SampleTank 3 SE is an affordable gateway to a whole new world of sounds.
Industry standard sound The reason SampleTank has remained an industry standard after all these years is due to the superior quality and sheer amount of sounds it offers. With SampleTank 3 SE, users get a taste of the 4,000 instruments available in the full version via a fully functional selection of 400 carefully selected, meticulously sampled instruments from 20 categories that stretch across every genre, style and type imaginable. And just like in the full version, users will be able to take advantage of SampleTank 3's multiple articulations and new 'round-robin' feature to inject a lifelike expressiveness to their playing with many of the available sounds.
All this means that SampleTank 3 SE's pianos, drums, basses, guitars, synthesizers, brass, strings, vocals and other more exotic sounds shine brightly and stand out in any mix with little-to-no adjustment required. Next generation rhythm As in the full version, users get full access to SampleTank 3's new built-in MIDI engine. It's a powerful tool that makes it easy to build killer rhythm tracks thanks to SampleTank 3 SE's library of over 250 loops and 150 MIDI patterns recorded by some of the finest drummers and percussionists in the world. No matter whether a song calls for world percussion or a more standard drum kit, SampleTank 3 SE's MIDI engine produces professional sounding results every time.
Powerful processing Though SampleTank 3 SE is limited to its 6.5 GB sound library, it offers unrestricted access to every other function contained within the full version of SampleTank 3: There are 55 high-quality effects sourced from IK's pro-quality studio software T-RackS and AmpliTube, a new multitrack console-style DAW mixer, a full-featured synthesizer section, 3 advanced sampling engines and a comprehensive selection of 10 filters. When combined, these features provide for unlimited sound sculpting potential and a musical experience that's only rivaled by SampleTank 3 itself. Pricing and availability SampleTank 3 SE is available now from the IK online store for $99.99/€79.99. or as a complementary bundled software download for users of iRig KEYS, iRig KEYS with Lightning, iRig KEYS PRO, iRig MIDI 2, iRig Pads and iRig PRO.
In addition SampleTank 3 SE users will be able to purchase the full version of SampleTank 3 for an affordable upgrade price of $199.99/€159.99 (The full price is $349.99/€279.99).All prices excluding taxes To learn more about SampleTank 3 SE To buy SampleTank 3 SE To upgrade to the full version of SampleTank 3.
IK Multimedia SampleTron Instruments RETAIL-R2R D01: 589 MB D02: 492 MB D03: 358 MB SampleTron is a virtual instrument that combines the authentic recreation of “Tron” sounds such as Mellotrons, Chamberlins, and Optigans with the powerful editing and playback features of the SampleTank engine. No other product allows you to manipulate, process and stretch such gritty, emotional and quirky lo-fi sounds all from within a single powerful and easy to use interface like SampleTron. SampleTron is a virtual instrument made for many styles from hip hop to electronic to classic rock and offers some of the most unique musically useful tones you can imagine. From the nostalgic sounds used by The Beatles, Moody Blues, Genesis, Yes and other rock bands of the 60’s and 70’s to the modern production of artists like Kanye West, Smashing Pumpkins and Beck to new sonic creations now possible only with SampleTron, the sounds in this package are diverse, powerful and inspiring!
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SampleTron gives you the sound of the Mellotron and many of its more obscure cousins, not to mention some serious potential for sonic malarkey, courtesey of IK's SampleTank player. It's been a while since its initial announcement, but after a lengthy gestation period IK Multimedia's SampleTron is finally with us. Following relatively hot on the heels of SampleMoog, SampleTron is the second of IK's 'SampleXxxx' plug-in ROMplers dedicated to specific families of classic and vintage keyboard instruments. While SampleMoog was an anthology of Moog synthesizers, SampleTron is, unsurprisingly, an anthology of Mellotrons — or, more accurately, a potted history of tape replay keyboards from the Chamberlins of the 1950s through to the 1975 Mellotron Mk V and the Novatron of the late 1970s. However, the history lesson doesn't end there — SampleTron also covers other legendary and curious replay instruments from those halcyon pre-sampler days; the Mattel Optigan, Chilton Talentmaker and Vako Orchestron, all of which employed optical disks as their playback medium, and the 360 Systems Digital Keyboard, one of the earliest digital ROMpler keyboards — also known as the 'Digital Tron'. Like SampleMoog, SampleTron's core library is hosted by a customised SampleTank player, this one being adorned with suitably vintage Tron-esque graphical controls. The layout and facilities are essentially the same as SampleMoog's; the SampleMoog review in the May issue of SOS describes these features in detail, so rather than reiterate them at length here, this review will mainly pick up on any operational and feature differences between SampleMoog and SampleTron.
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For the uninitiated, here is a brief recap of what's on offer: 16 multitimbral Parts with integral Part Mixer, twinned with a library Browser with search facility. Each Part provides a full complement of synthesis parameters: low-pass, high-pass and band-pass filters in six, 12 and 24dB per octave flavours, two LFOs, two AHDSR envelopes, key range controls, velocity sensitivity controls, Macro controls appropriate to the currently loaded instrument, polyphonic and monophonic key modes, and a choice of SampleTank's Resample or Stretch synthesis engines — more on which later. Up to four effects ('wired' in series) are available to each Part, three of which are freely selectable from a total list of 32 types. SampleTron is also configurable to provide up to 16 stereo virtual outputs.
Interestingly, an early promotional PDF flyer for SampleTron from last year shows some subtle variations from the production version. One such variance shows the presence of a Global effects option, a feature subsequently abandoned for some reason, which is a shame, as this would be very useful for the processing of composite sounds spread across two or more Parts. While the mere idea of sampled Mellotrons is like a red rag to a bull for some purists, those of a less dogmatic disposition will be pleased to find that SampleTron provides the means to enable sounds to behave in ways authentic to the original instruments. Mellotron sounds typically last up to eight seconds (the tapes are finite in length, not looped) and this is their default behaviour in SampleTron. However, this behaviour can be overridden (for sounds of a continuous nature such as strings and choirs) by adjusting Envelope 1's Hold time parameter, which is conveniently calibrated in seconds.
Because these continuous sounds are looped within SampleTron, they can be made to play ad infinitum if you wish. One-shot sounds like vibes, piano or guitar are not looped and will of course decay and finish, regardless of how long the decay time is set. Looped rhythms from the Chamberlin Rhythmate, Mellotron Powerhouse, Chilton Talentmaker and Optigan all loop continuously, although curiously the Optigan and Orchestron instrument sounds default to an eight-second limit; since these were generated from optical discs, they would have played indefinitely. No problem — just crank up the Envelope 1 Hold time and they loop as they should. This is what all the fuss is about — well, some of the fuss anyway.
A Mellotron (below left), Optigan (front) and Vako Orchestron.Most instrument sounds extend (usefully) beyond the range of the lowest sample, and a few extend beyond the highest sample; however, should you wish to restrict the key range to that of the original sound, the Key Range parameter is at hand to make it so. Naturally, most sounds have no key velocity response by default, but it can be added if required to affect any combination of amplitude, pitch, filter cutoff, resonance, LFO 1 depth or Envelope 2 amount. Frustratingly, I couldn't get the latter parameter to respond in SampleMoog, and still had no joy with it here! If you want to emulate the classic 'half-speed Tron' sound, try transposing 'Classic Tron Violins' down an octave — this sounds excellent when combined with the same sound at normal speed, up the octave and on an adjacent Part. SampleTron is designed very much as a creative tool, so if you are not overly fixated on authenticity, there's bags of potential for tweaking, transforming and combining the core sounds to produce unique and personal textures. Also featured in SampleMoog, the host player's synth engine with its choice of replay algorithms really comes into its own in the context of SampleTron. Here we find the most significant operational difference to SampleMoog: SampleTron offers a fourth replay method called PSTS (Pitch Shift/Time Stretch) in addition to Resample, Note Stretch and Phrase Stretch.
Resample is the replay method employed by traditional samplers, and is suitable for all 'conventional' playback tasks. The Note Stretch algorithm is optimised for independent control of pitch, tempo and formant of instrument sounds, while Phrase Stretch is optimised for similar manipulation of phrase-based sounds. SampleTron's library contains a wealth of phrase-based material (see the 'Library' section of this article for more details) that is ideal fodder for the Stretch engines. Using these, it's possible to vary the tempo of rhythm loops without changing pitch, alter the pitch of instrument phrases without changing tempo, and even change the formant frequency of any sound for off-the-wall, alien effects. The PSTS algorithm is a variant of the Stretch ones, offering a variable Grain control, but no control over Harmonics (formant frequency). IK say that this is the best engine to use with looped material, fine-tuning the Grain control to find the best-sounding results. However, I found there to be no hard and fast rule in this matter — seemingly similar types of loops and phrases responded quite differently depending upon the chosen Stretch method, so as ever: experiment, experiment, experiment!
Gforce's M-Tron (reviewed in the December 2000 issue of SOS) is the obvious competitor to SampleTron, and close comparison with SampleTron reveals that both instruments offer individual and valuable takes on the virtual Mellotron theme. On the one hand, M-Tron is essentially a fairly 'authentic' representation of a Mellotron M400. M-Tron's key range is limited to 35 notes (as is the original instrument,) and only one additional luxury, is provided in the form of basic envelope controls for attack and release times. Unlike the original, however, it can only play one sound at a time, whereas a real M400 provided three sound selections on each tape frame, and allowed a variable mix between the A+B and B+C sounds. On the other hand, the SampleTron player pays scant regard to authenticity — unless you want it to — offering up to 16 simultaneous sounds, a raft of filters, envelopes, effects and other synthesis shenanigans capable of warping the core sounds beyond the remit of the original Trons.
Whilst that may be influential in your choice of one instrument over the other, I actually found it to be of secondary interest to the differences between their core libraries. Just as no two Mellotron tape frames sound the same — due to age, the generation of the recordings, the brand and formulation of the tapes, whether the original masters have been 'tweaked' and many other factors — M-Tron and SampleTron have their own unique personalities.
One difference between the two instruments concerns the way in which the beginnings of notes on M-Tron appear to have been 'cleaned up', exhibiting little or none of the distinctive key-on 'spit' characteristic of tapes whose start points have been poorly aligned on the tape frame. Whilst arguably undesirable, this 'spit' was instrumental in producing a powerful, aggressive edge frequently put to good use by players. In contrast, varying degrees of 'spit' are apparent in many SampleTron sounds, and with the benefit of the host player's attack time envelopes, this can be optionally softened if you prefer a cleaner, more gentle approach. The differences between M-Tron and SampleTron are even more marked when comparing representations of the 'same' sounds.
While you can hear that they are based on the same original recordings, tonally they are worlds apart, and nowhere is this more obvious than amongst the various choirs! Both instrument libraries offer sounds and tonalities that are not found in the other, and both have their subjective strengths and weaknesses. There is one other significant area in which SampleTron and M-Tron differ. IK claim that all of SampleTron's sounds have been sampled chromatically — and while this is true of some categories, such as the Optigan, Talentmaker and Rhythmate phrase and rhythm sets, it is not always the case with the instrumental sounds. Examination of the key ranges in Zone Edit mode reveals some keygroups that span two-, three- or even four-semitone intervals. Indeed, certain sets do not extend to the top of the original instrument's range — in some cases the last couple of notes are missing, or else the last few upper notes are generated from samples extended beyond their natural range. For example, the entire upper octave of 'MlTrn Choir' from the M400 & Mk V category is derived from one sample.
One can, of course, apply the Note Stretching synth engine algorithm to this keygroup to avoid the manic escalation of the Choir's formant frequency and vibrato speed, but it's a bit of a shame to have to resort to this workaround. In contrast, M-Tron's sounds have been chromatically sampled across their entire key ranges, so from this point of view it offers the most faithful Mellotron emulations of the two instruments. That said, the issue of sample frequency does not appear to detract from the overall efficacy of SampleTron — it still belches forth that essential eerie, Gothic charm that is the signature Mellotron sound. Notwithstanding SampleTron's additional flexibility, both instruments offer something unique and indispensable; owning both is not overkill, but is in fact a Rather Good Idea. With the release of the feature-enhanced M-Tron Pro now imminent — which includes an expanded library, a synthesis engine akin to Gforce's Virtual String Machine, sound layering and the ability to play samples in reverse — it will be interesting to see if the balance of power tips in Gforce's favour, or whether the two instruments will continue to complement one another. IK Multimedia SampleTron £229 pros.
Wide-ranging library of classic Tron sounds and other unusual replay instruments. The synthesis tools and effects offer great creative potential. Cons. No Global volume control.
Some sounds' multisample keygroupings don't quite tell the whole story. Summary SampleTron provides a fascinating collection of classic, unusual and quirky samples taken from Mellotrons, Chamberlins, Optigans and other rare replay instruments. Sixteen multitimbral Parts and multiple outputs offer good flexibility within DAWs, while the versatile synthesis parameters and effects provide much creative sound design potential. Prog rockers will love it, as will anyone looking for cutting-edge, retro or off-the-wall elements for their productions. You'll have a lot of fun with this.
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