Sonic Reality

midinut · Post by **midinut** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:24 am

Hate to even ask but I got myself SS2 for Christmas. As a matter of fact the mailman delivered it to me on Christmas day. Who says there's not a Santa Claus! Anyway, just curious if I got it through esounds if I can get hooked up too? I know you love it when we keep pushing the date back further and further ... but what the hell ... thought I'd ask!

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:35 am

You got SS2? We're talking about ST2. But, there has to be some cutoff point and there's room for a little bit of grace period or some excuse like let's say you are a gold or platinum esoundz customer (meaning you buy a lot of stuff there and your membership status reflects it) then you can always make a request here and there. It has to go both ways of course and in general we can't really go far giving things away. But, I think you guys know that I like to be as reasonable as possible when it comes to these things.

dgkenney · Post by **dgkenney** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:33 pm

Squids wrote: I help you guys as much as I can. You guys know that right?

We do and we appreciate it

Now...about a special discount for me....

Dan

dgkenney · Post by **dgkenney** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:34 pm

Sorry..duplicate
Dan

midinut · Post by **midinut** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:06 am

Ooops ... SS2 and ST2? I do have both from esounds but I can't remember the exact date I got ST2XL. It wasn't too long before I got SS2 though. Okay, I'll be a good boy and behave myself now! You know what they say ... when you get old the eyes are the first thing ... I'll look closer next time before sticking my foot in my mouth! Thanks again for all your hard work and great support!

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:15 am

midinut wrote:Ooops ... SS2 and ST2? I do have both from esounds but I can't remember the exact date I got ST2XL. It wasn't too long before I got SS2 though. Okay, I'll be a good boy and behave myself now! You know what they say ... when you get old the eyes are the first thing ... I'll look closer next time before sticking my foot in my mouth! Thanks again for all your hard work and great support!

You deserve special consideration for your quantity of posts recently in our company forum as well as your sig .

Don't worry. The sound update won't be that expensive anyway.

krraqk · Post by **krraqk** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:06 am

krraqk wrote:
I have some questions about the new 2.1 functions:

ST2.1 will have a main effects section (with sends from the invididual channels)? (the SS2 preview showed that).

Will be possible to assign velocity and aftertouch to control the engine parameters?

Midi learn to assign parameters to controls?

thanks
Squids wrote:
Maybe some of these things.

Weeell I hope that means YES.

Seriously, I hope IK would improve the engine as much as possible with this upgrade, it has been very quiet in this area lately.

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:23 am

krraqk wrote:
krraqk wrote:
I have some questions about the new 2.1 functions:

ST2.1 will have a main effects section (with sends from the invididual channels)? (the SS2 preview showed that).

Will be possible to assign velocity and aftertouch to control the engine parameters?

Midi learn to assign parameters to controls?

thanks
Considering the upgrade to 2.1 is free (at least for

Squids wrote:
Maybe some of these things.
Weeell I hope that means YES.

Seriously, I hope IK would improve the engine as much as possible with this upgrade, it has been very quiet in this area lately.

As much as possible within certain timeframes and other aspects of development we may not all be aware of. Considering it is a free upgrade for the engine and it already has been announced with quite a few beneficial new features I think it's a good reason to be a happy SampleTank 2 user. Added value after the purchase is a nice benefit. The more features that get added to an update the more it starts to move into a paid for update. Maybe somewhere in between will be possible. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:39 am

krraqk wrote:Seriously, I hope IK would improve the engine as much as possible with this upgrade, it has been very quiet in this area lately.

These are some significant new features. I think IK has been quite because they've been busy developing software! Have you seen the NAMM announcements?

Forever,

Kim.

EKen · Post by **EKen** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:53 pm

Hi,
As someone on the thread pointed out, most sounds do not provide adequate output levels. I have seen newsgroups that came up with workarounds such as doubling up tracks with the same instrument, but that is not right. Most sounds have extremely low levels even when cranked to full volume. Tech Support suggested I use the pre-amp, but that does not fix the problem. What needs to be done is the Sonic/IK sound developers need to load any popular VST or App(Reaktor, V-Station, Reason, EVE etc) and compare the signal strength. Really bad and really a problem, as I am sure ANYONE using this with other VSTs can attest. It is weak compared to a nicely pre-amped microphone as well. PLEASE ADD a SIGNAL DOUBLER or REDO ALL THE PATCHES TO PROPER LEVELS...

1. Open Cubase, Protools, or Tracktion (or any other recording app)
2. Add Sampletank
3. Add Reason, Reaktor, V-station, EVE or other plugin.
4. Create midi track with full velocity levels.
5. Record and compare output.
6. Put volume on 100% in Sampletank.
7. Record and compare again.

Levels are very low, guaranteed. Please, please provide some fix.

Many thanks for an otherwise great product.
Eken

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:54 pm

I know what you mean, but honestly, I prefer it that way. It means that when I layer 16 or 32 parts, I don't have to have my master fader riding at the bottom of its travel. Besides, it suits my studio gain staging that way.

Forever,

Kim.

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