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harmony gardens · Post by **harmony gardens** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:10 pm

Yes, the engines are the same. Since you have LE, you can get the upgrade price. There has been an upgrade path from the L to XL soundsets. The extra sounds are worth getting, and if money is tight, you could probably do it in stages, that way. Contact eSoundz and talk to Andy,,,

krank · Post by **krank** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:16 pm

I seem to have encoutered a bug with the 'crusher' effect: when all controls are set to effect the signal least possible (ie. 16 bit), it still produces very noticeable grain. This is not the case in the old version.

vic_france · Post by **vic_france** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:00 pm

Can somebody please lend me a guide dog?

.... I cannot see the octave transpose dropdown menu anywhere in ST2.5.

StrangeCat · Post by **StrangeCat** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:31 am

just wanted to say that after upgrading to 2.5 the sounds sound way more pro! More useful right out of sampletank2. I haven't used this vst in a while and I am going through sounds for some pads, they sound great, must be the reverb that is included in Sampletank2.5
Great Job
See ya!

harmony gardens · Post by **harmony gardens** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:28 am

vic_france wrote:Can somebody please lend me a guide dog? .... I cannot see the octave transpose dropdown menu anywhere in ST2.5.

I haven't found that either, but under the range tab, there's a knob that controls part transpose.

harmony gardens · Post by **harmony gardens** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:49 am

StrangeCat wrote:just wanted to say that after upgrading to 2.5 the sounds sound way more pro! More useful right out of sampletank2. I haven't used this vst in a while and I am going through sounds for some pads, they sound great, must be the reverb that is included in Sampletank2.5
Great Job
See ya!

I agree with you here, StangeCat. I'm totally happy with this update,,, kind of pinching myself, and Sampletank has been my go to vst all along.

One of my favorite new features is the master volume control. It is kind of a simple thing, but I find that really useful.

Sampletank is truely command central for my Sampletank library again. I was disappointed at the fact that Philharmonik's sounds couldn't be added to Sampletank. I know it was addressed in 2.2, so it's not exactly new with 2.5, but I like being able to blend Philharmonik sounds with my other sounds. Having the CSR reverb from Philharmonik available for all of the sounds is great, too!! Kudos to IK,,, it's like falling in love all over again.

Looking forward to SampleMoog and Sampletron, too.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:25 am

telebunke wrote:
morelia wrote:L to XL is just extra sounds right?
plus the potential additional creatitivity coming from using these sounds.

I've been playing around with 2.5 now for a few days and really like it a lot. The really cool thing is the new set of Combi's. I don't know how I lived without some of these--the acoustic guitar combi and the piano pad combi really made my day.

But I'm curious: if you only have the "L" version, do the Combi patches work? Or is there a different set of combi's for that version?

-B

beergeek · Post by **beergeek** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:06 am

harmony gardens wrote:
vic_france wrote:Can somebody please lend me a guide dog? .... I cannot see the octave transpose dropdown menu anywhere in ST2.5.
I haven't found that either, but under the range tab, there's a knob that controls part transpose.

And under synth, there's a part pitch knob.

All in all, I like the interface much more and it's way more flexible. I have to agree with Squids...this was a hella free update

vic_france · Post by **vic_france** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:56 pm

beergeek wrote:
harmony gardens wrote:
vic_france wrote:Can somebody please lend me a guide dog? .... I cannot see the octave transpose dropdown menu anywhere in ST2.5.
I haven't found that either, but under the range tab, there's a knob that controls part transpose.
And under synth, there's a part pitch knob.

Thanks fellas

I must have seen both of them about ten times before posting, but didn't register as far as my brain! It was in fact the Range>Part Transpose that I was looking for

krank · Post by **krank** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:59 pm

krank wrote:I seem to have encoutered a bug with the 'crusher' effect: when all controls are set to effect the signal least possible (ie. 16 bit), it still produces very noticeable grain. This is not the case in the old version.

Can anyone confirm this? Apparently IK tech support is only reached by tediously filling out an extensive form, so I'd like to make sure.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:07 am

peppy197 · Post by **peppy197** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:04 am

vic_france wrote:Can somebody please lend me a guide dog? .... I cannot see the octave transpose dropdown menu anywhere in ST2.5.

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It has moved to the RANGE section, first knob will do the pitch adjust in semitones... so you use 12, 24 etc..

allen

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:55 pm

Squids wrote: We've just beefed up our sales, support, shipping and web development department quite a bit. You'll be seeing a lot of downloadable sound products happen starting next week (including this bonus disc) and there will be other cool things happening on www.esoundz.com over the coming days.

janka · Post by **janka** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:46 pm

Saving a preset in ST2.5 takes a couple of minutes (!). I've had the same problem in previuos versions. I have ca 25 Gb of ST-sounds. Anyone else having this problem?

/Anders

nexussynth · Post by **nexussynth** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:12 pm

this is a nice update, i'm glad it is a free one. however...

i would have been willing to pay for an upgrade that would have allowed the kind of editing that only seems to be open to developers like sonic reality.

sampletank seems to have something of an identity problem. is it a sample playback vsti or more like something like kontakt? this has been discussed here before. i'm well aware of that.

i noticed that there are suddenly appearing 'knobs' when you load Miro sounds that are 'greyed-out' or just plain absent when you want to program your sounds you've loaded yourself or even the sampletank native library.

case in point: the v-start knob. why can't i incorporate this into other sounds or those i've imported so they can take advantage of the programming in the Miro?

yes this isn't the IK forum, i know, and i am not venting here. i am hoping that somebody at IK reads this and that many of the forum members here might contact IK and maybe we can get squids to 'inspire' them to provide the editing tools to make sampltank the top vsti sample engine it deserves to be. give us the editing program the developers use as an additional subset to sampletank. i will pay gladly for such a program! free updates are very nice but this was somewhat dissapointing to me..

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