Also Syntronik presets, including those I had created, loaded and played fine. I was happy to find I could load a Philharmonik 2 multi-instrument collection that I had created a couple years ago, and all the instruments, their levels and pan positions loaded into ST4 correctly. When you install ST4 it finds all your old compatible IKM sound files that it can use, including those from SampleTank 3, the Syntronik synth collection and Miroslav Philharmonik 2. Overall there is pretty much any class of sound you should ever need and all of them I auditioned are excellent. I remember a time when 2,000 sounds would not have been labeled as a ‘lite’ version! New sounds include better pianos, new keyboards, guitars, bass, drums, strings, brass, synths, vocals, and percussion. The MAX version includes about 8,000 sounds and requires 300 GB of disk space the standard version has around 6,000 sounds and requires 128 GB the “lite” SE version has about 2,000 sounds and needs 40 GB of drive space. ST4 adds 13 new effects (for a total of 70) from their AmpliTube and T-RackS software collections.Īs for the samples, there are up to 260 GB of them! There are actually three versions of ST4 that vary only in the sample content provided. But compared to earlier versions, ST4 has more comprehensive sound editing along with access to more sounds and more of IKM’s FX plug-ins, including EQs, dynamics, reverb and saturation units. As before there is a standalone version and plug-ins versions for your DAW (AAX, VST2, VST3, and Audio Units – 64 bit only). It provides multi-layer sound support, multiple articulations, and thousands of samples. Like SampleTank 3 version 4 (ST4 from now on) is a 16-part multitimbral sample-based virtual instrument. If you are still using an earlier version, read on. If you use SampleTank 4 you should update to 4.0.8 soon and get back to playing it. The first few releases of version 4 were quite buggy, but they recently released an update, the 8th minor revision since the original release of SampleTank 4, with half a dozen more fixes, an equal number of optimizations and some improved operations.

IK Multimedia introduced the fourth generation of SampleTank, their rather large sample player, back in spring of 2019, and though I had SampleTank 3, I hadn’t time over the past several months to upgrade and test the newest version.

Sample tank 4 review