IK Multimedia Xpansion Tank 2 Group Buy

[Squids]

Going by the Sounds list, the Cinematik tank is an exact replica of Film Orchestra Vols I and II which were part of the Miro GB. I almost dove on that one when I read that it was derived from the new Cinema Sessions but am glad I didn't once I checked the patch list. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome, I just have it already.
I guess Cinema Sessions may use these same sounds just in IP format (or the IK page contains a typo)..

Interesting! Thanks for clarifying Maybe Squids and co. will explain....

It does come from the Film Orchestra 1 and 2. But keep in mind most people have no idea what that is! It was never officially released by IK. So when we created this we pooled from other libraries to make these new ones. I could have sworn that I listed which ones somewhere in one of the threads. I can do it again if you want... although the patch lists should help.

[Xenobt]

Hey Squids, Welcome back!

Any good word for the faithful? Maybe I should be asking the Reverend for that!

[Xenobt]

And my 64k Commodore did MIDI pretty well too, even with a 5 1/4" floppy disc that took forty five seconds to load a song!

Hey, those old C-64s actually had some decent musical potential. There are people now making soft synths just to emulate the SID chip in the Commodore machines.

Odosynths made one, but their web site is currently unavailable.

Here's another: http://www.delamancha.co.uk/basic.htm

Thanks for the heads up, torgo! I've still got two of 'em with some AWFUL sound editing programs!

Yeah, the SID chip sound is STILL big in the "glitch/circuit bent" programming community...
The old SIDstation was a hardware version of the c64 sound engine, NOT hi-fi!
I don't need more help making things sound bad!

And I'm with you, as long as they're okay with giving more authorizations as needed, I'm okay too. Just seems easier for their support team to treat them like all the other products with their own 5, but I'm sure there MUST be a good reason... Anyone know what it is?

[torgo]

Thanks for the heads up, torgo! I've still got two of 'em with some AWFUL sound editing programs!

WOW!!! And I thought I had some museum material with my old MPU-401 MIDI interface!

[SaganTech]

Here's a simple piece, Eight for one I created with one instance of Sampletank and every sound used is from this group buy.
It uses 2 sounds from the OB library. 2 Vintage rock grooves. A bass from the bass collection. 3 guitars from the electic guitar collection and one sound from the vontage keys collection.

[oiramo]

Though I bought into this group buy as an afterthought and due to the extremely affordable price, these sounds have turned out to be a blessing. My motherboard on my music computer just went out a few days ago and I had to send it out for a replacement.So in the meantime I'm stuck with my old Dell Dimensions 3000 and I can't use any of my other more demanding sound libraries. Thankfully the sound in this group buy are not only small and less demanding they also sound pretty damn good considering the lack of samples.

[kiezum]

The best kind of marketing is the kind where everyone (on both sides of the deal) ends up feeling like a winner

When marketing is done well and ethically, I think of it as being a lot like match-making

I think all of this is completely fair and reasonable and good for the consumer and the business.

I'm a composer and musicteacher. So I'm no marketing professional. I find it very interesting how companies sell their stuff. I understand the match-making metaphor. But when there are many of the same kind of product sold by different companies. What do they do to get the consumer to buy their product? They can say that their product is better or cheaper. But they can also get the consumer involved, even to the point that customer believes in the company and/or product.

There has been written a lot about Imogen Heap. By making use of the internet and meetings in real life she build a big fanbase. She was no stranger in the music business, but her approach is interesting. Getting the fans involved.

I'm not taking about ethnics and fairness. That's a different subject entirely. I wanted to observe what is going on. Why do so many people buy during these groupbuys? Why are the treads of the T-Racks and this one so huge?!

Will there be a point when the market for music software will be saturated? When everyone has enough tools to make great music? Maybe I should do some marketresearch if there's a need for online composition-courses. Now I know who I should pm for questions about marketing

[barbecutie]

IK Multimedia Xpansion Tank 2 Group Buy

Now 7X1! Currently at 5346 users. Need 654 more users for 8X1!

Group buy ends June 6th!

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/xtgroupbuy

and

http://www.esoundz.com/details.php?ProductID=4293

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If you are purchasing from eSoundz - be sure to refer someone. You and your referral will earn ePointz which can be used to purchase downloadable items from esoundz.com and downloadablesoundz.com.

esoundz user: BarBeCutie or see epointz referral thread below for other users:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... ht=epointz

[zedd]

Here's a simple piece, Eight for one I created with one instance of Sampletank and every sound used is from this group buy.

At first I thought it was a demo of "every sound" from this group buy. That would be a long demo!

It uses 2 sounds from the OB library. 2 Vintage rock grooves. A bass from the bass collection. 3 guitars from the electic guitar collection and one sound from the vontage keys collection.

Fantastic work! I am really enjoying this one very much, and have downloaded it for future enjoyment.

Any chance you'd be willing to either share a screen capture of the instruments you loaded into SampleTank... or EVEN BETTER the COMBI for the loaded instruments. If you'd prefer not to, I do completely understand. I would guess that you did a fair bit of customization to some of those sounds, probably. You really made them work well together!

[androidlove]

i'm sure someone from ik or sr will come by and tell us what the excess is for

[Reverend Rhythm]

User Demos (edited)

I added SaganTech's demo and edited pheeleep's link. For some reason, the forum sometimes adds a space to url addresses.

Many thanks to DarkStar for starting this, and Peter for bumping it. I used their posts mainly... yes, I stole it! I know. How could a Reverend do that?

If you need me to add any demos, or edit your demo info, just pm me... or you can have this job or posting the demos! Hey, someone may give you epointz for doing this.

Peter - IK Multimedia
SampleTank really is a very quick workstation. With a little bit of research/knowledge of the tools used on the original recording and some ingenuity I was able to do a Floydesque take on the "Shine on You" Part I sounds in just a few minutes only using instruments from these Xpansion Tanks with no external processing of any kind (limited myself on purpose).

I used sounds from Vintage Keys, Cinematik, and SampleOB Xpander (and only one from each for the pad, one from SampleOB Xpander for lead). Mind the few seconds of silence at the beginning - I also only took a few minutes to tweak the export Smile
http://storage.tinytoaster.com/STShine.mp3

Cognition
The reason the demos you've heard are focusing on unusual effects is because that is (in my opinion) the Cinematic Collection's strong point. You might want to check out Symphonic Strings, which seems to have a bigger emphasis on strings rather than effects. I don't have that one, so can't comment.
Here's something I improvised real quick using the Cinematic Collection strings;
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049335/Cinematic_strings.mp3

For me this doesn't cut it for strings, and neither does Garritan (for me). I'd recommend East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra, even if you can only afford the Silver Edition. You can always upgrade later. However, this might not be within your budget. (Note: I'm an EWQLSO Gold Plus user, which is in a completely different price class from SampleTank).

For new readers, here is my demo of the aspects of the Cinematic Collection that are more exciting to me personally:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3049335/Jon%20C ... ration.mp3

Edit: It is definitely possible to get better results with the Cinematic Collection strings than my improvisation. I was just improvising for a few min on my MIDI controller using presets (sometimes with a reverb or a delay added)

Peter - IK Multimedia

I'd very much appreciate it if somebody could post some samples with more traditional symphonic / orchestral sounds.

I tried and succeeded at only picking traditional orchestral sounds only from Cinematik and within a few minutes had a decent combi and multi-out setup to do this small piece. Forgive the crashes in the wrong place and other nits here and there. There's layered strings, brass, and winds with a lame percussion track - all from Cinematik only:
http://storage.tinytoaster.com/STCinematikOrch.mp3

Peter - IK Multimedia
Some of the Beach Boy vocals done up quickly, starts "in the manner of the church" (a capella - I have to try to brush up on the true Italian meanings seeing that our HQ is in Italy) then in a mix then back to a cappella. I've added bass from the Bass tank, organ from the Vintage Keys, and a drum loop from the Vintage Rock loops for the midsection "mix":
http://storage.tinytoaster.com/STVoxBoys.mp3

androidlove
Here's a little dry Cinematik demo. there's a player embedded in the page
www.4shared.com/audio/ISV9uMiH/cinematik.html

2ndStringer
Here is a quick jam with several libraries involved:
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/jre ... padjam.mp3
The pad is from Cinematik, layered with some stuff from World music. The hand drum is from World, as is the psaltery. The bowed bass is from Symphony Strings 2. The guitar is my Strat through a non-IK product (sorry). It is just a two-chord ambient sort of thing, and I am no pro, but a lot of people might do this sort of thing with SampleTank.

androidlove
Here's a dry run on the Hip Hop instrument pack. It's only the tip. You could ride out a career with just this set.
www.4shared.com/audio/mH09rixa/hip_it.html
Someone requested a pop demo using the Hip Hop set because that person wasn't a fan of hip hop. I made an old sounding piece because the Hip Hop sounds are old. Hip Hop likes to recycle. if you're looking for hip hop... btw, which GM set recreates old analogue like that?

androidlove
I filled up all 16 slots for this retro pop piece using the hip hop set. Uses just the effects that loaded with the parents. If you have a cheese allergy, you may want to avoid this.
www.4shared.com/audio/0XYJQ4Tg/hip_pop.html
Whereas the bass break in hip it was garbage, this one is the bomb (please, someone get that).

Siedler
Thought, I want to share my work with you guys. Maybe it would help people to decide, if they want to join the GB. And also it's a "thank you" for IKMM and SR for it. So they know what people do with their sets Wink
http://swift-assistance.de/joomla/image ... _Dream.mp3
It's done with a few freebies for the electronic-sounds and mastering, the rest is done with these packs of the GB:

• Cinematik Collection
• Piano Collection 2
• Symphony Strings 2
• World Grooves

Have fun with it, and pm me if you like it. If not, don't say it - I'm a cry-baby! Crying or Very sad HiHi

Jesse J
Here's a little loop I made after I downloaded the Acoustic Drums today:
http://rapidshare.com/files/384715164/J ... emo_01.mp3
I'm using a Kit from Acoustic Drums 2 that I edited to be a bit tighter, keys are from the Piano Collection 2 and a little spice from the Cinematic Collection. Just 3 channels used, bass comes from my Roland Fantom G as I haven't got the Bass xpansion (yet).
Here's a little screen-shot of ST while playing this:
http://img.skitch.com/20100507-1m137a62 ... t3j13r.jpg

Jesse J
Here's another little demo:
http://rapidshare.com/files/384720448/J ... emo_02.mp3
Just 3 channels, a mandolin patch I created using the World Instruments Collection + Tremble Strings from the Cinematic Collection.
http://img.skitch.com/20100507-nns7313y ... p1tkbe.jpg
I used Toraverb for the big reverb. The built-in ST reverb would probably have done the trick just as well, but I happened to have Toraverb in my Aux so I just used it...

androidlove
Here's an arp only demo. It's the default sounds. Run it through a chorus and a delay or a flanger and a reverb if it sounds too plain
www.4shared.com/audio/DgwomIXE/arp_pack.html

abi

Hi, do somebody have the Vintage Keys Collection.
I have the Piano Collection and like to know if in the Vintage Keys are new Rhodes patches in. Can anybody make a demo? Just play around on different patches....

Here's a quick demo (sorry for the playing):
www.zshare.net/audio/762517413df6c525/

JavaJ
Definitely need more demos. I did the Vocal Collection one on Youtube.


Baard

To celebrate 7x1 I share what I have been doing with ST the last days. All sounds are from the GB, the title celebrates us reaching 7 at this very moment!

That would be the ARP Prosoloist flute with some pitch modulation. I posted my patch list here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/965632/sampletank.JPG (I never got around to use the congas tho)

Its from the Sampletank XT pack. So is the organ and the flute. The "salsa" piano in the first part of the song is "Upright" from piano collection tho. Really like that one, but it didnt cut through towards the end, so I kept HQ Free Piano there, I wrote with that one. Thats what amazes me with what I got from this deal. You are writing from the second you load a sound and press a key.
Baard - Seven for the Price of One

pheeleep
I made a short Dark Hip Hop Instrumental demo last night using DeepSouth, World Instruments, World grooves, Cinematik, DownTempo and Vocal Collection. This can give you an idea of the sounds included. I wish I had the time to add more sounds to it, but alas..
http://www.burakg.com/pheeleep/IK_Group ... eeleep.mp3

SaganTech
Here's a simple piece, Eight for one, I created with one instance of Sampletank and every sound used is from this group buy. It uses 2 sounds from the OB library, 2 Vintage rock grooves, a bass from the bass collection, 3 guitars from the electric guitar collection, and one sound from the vintage keys collection.

[zedd]

i'm sure someone from ik or sr will come by and tell us what the excess is for

Are you being serious? I think can answer the question. Firstly, this is entirely a SR library, so IK will have nothing to say. My guess is exactly as I mentioned previously... each version was saved as a parent because they were worthy starting points and Squids didn't want the preset to be buried as a child when it could stand on it's own. The other reason, is probably that doing this with some of the presets made the collection seem bigger and more well-rounded.

There are some examples where one of the versions of the same instrument is a clean upright and the other version of is a full-fledged honky tonk, created through chorus and detuning of the same samples. It wouldn't be smart to bury the honky tonk as a child of the clean piano when it sounds so great as a honky tonk piano in the modified version. Only YOU can decide if the modified versions of the same instruments are worthy of being their own parents.

But WAIT... you can't decide... because you already deleted them!!!!

Of course, I'm just teasing the Android.
But I think that's the skinny, my friend.

[Ceej]

Just had to share this. After buying in the second time using the remainder of my Jampoints:



Wow, what will I do with those kinds of riches?!

[zedd]

Wow, what will I do with those kinds of riches?!

Ha! You've hit the jackpot!

Although... there does seem to be a suspicious decimal point in there.

[oiramo]

If you plug 7.105427357601(e-12)into acalculator you get -65.9505742 which means you owe IK money Or if you put (7.105427357601 * e) - 15 you get 4.31455407.