Sonik Synth

I think Sonic Synth is an amazing set of "tweaked" samples that uses the current SampleTank engine very effectively. I own Sonic Reality sample disks from a time when I had hardware samplers and those samples are great. However, SR has taken the time to tweak those and other samples so they jump out of the speakers yet sit in the mix nicely. The acoustic guitar patches are awesome and the B3 patches are great. Even after three months I have barely scratched the surface of this masssive set of sounds. The EROM disks add even more sounds to your palette. For bread and butter sounds and for more exotic ones, SS seems to have all the bases covered.

Customer support on the SR forum is almost immediate and there is a real community growing at the forum.

The only downside is the ST red interface, which is troublesome for me due to an red-green vision problem. However, that will go away with version 2 of ST.

I have ST L and run it in Sonar 2.0 using the FXpansion adapter 4.0. I get multiple audio outputs now, which makes it a breeze to assign instruments to their own tracks for mixing. ST is stable in Sonar and does not crash.

I had let ST L gather dust for almost a year because I didn't feel inspired by the packaged sounds. I was at first skeptical that SR could really pull off what it claimed but I am now a confirmed believer. These sounds work for me better than those in my Roland XV-88 and have made it fun to compose and arrange again. And for the skeptics on the Cubase VST Forum, I am not Italian and I don't work for SR.

I also own Halion, Battery and Kontakt, so I am not saying SS satisfies all my needs; yet I find myself loading SS more and more when I start working. With new sounds on the horizon from SR I suspect SS will become an even larger part of my studio in a box.Read Review