Not sure that update number is currently correct, but that's what is on the OP.Squids wrote:http://www.esoundz.com/news1.php?nbr=5999
CURENTLY THE NUMBER FOR THE GROUP BUY IS: 329
THE THIRD TIER ON THE GROUP BUY IS HIT!!! THREE FREE additional SampleTank libraries of your choice for those that purchased any of the VI in this Hot Buy from www.esoundz.com this month. PLUS as a special bonus and thank you we're giving everyone who joins the group buy a FREE exclusive Miroslav Outtakes collection for SampleTank available for download soon!
IK/SR VI HOT BUY - GROUP BUY on eSoundz!!! SampleTank Instruments for $99 + more!
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- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
East Coast of US Morning Bump:
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
332 now. Some days are better than others. But we're sending another newsletter out today so that should give it a boost!
Btw we're doing Sonic Refills for Reason for $10 each just this weekend. That's our Memorial Day sale. Also other refills at drastic discounts for anyone who owns Reason.
The EZ10 coupon has expired.
Btw we're doing Sonic Refills for Reason for $10 each just this weekend. That's our Memorial Day sale. Also other refills at drastic discounts for anyone who owns Reason.
The EZ10 coupon has expired.
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
That's 332...
We'd need roughly 12 per day the rest of the way to hit 400. Not easy, but certainly possible.
Hopefully the newsletter will have an impact. For those who are established on other forums as well, an update might be a good idea.
The deal is now an IK instrument of your choice (typically $150 or more), three ReTank libraries of your choice (each typically $41.67+), and the extra Miroslav Outtakes (not available otherwise - exclusive to this promotion) for $99.
Also extra epointz for those upgrading from Miroslav CE to the full package through this offer, not to mention the regular epointz for listing someone as a referral when you order.
It's an opportunity to land over $300 of bounty for $99 - and $5 of that ends up going to Japan earthquake recovery efforts.
We'd need roughly 12 per day the rest of the way to hit 400. Not easy, but certainly possible.
Hopefully the newsletter will have an impact. For those who are established on other forums as well, an update might be a good idea.
The deal is now an IK instrument of your choice (typically $150 or more), three ReTank libraries of your choice (each typically $41.67+), and the extra Miroslav Outtakes (not available otherwise - exclusive to this promotion) for $99.
Also extra epointz for those upgrading from Miroslav CE to the full package through this offer, not to mention the regular epointz for listing someone as a referral when you order.
It's an opportunity to land over $300 of bounty for $99 - and $5 of that ends up going to Japan earthquake recovery efforts.
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- KVRer
- 25 posts since 6 Jun, 2009
Observations from a total nOOb (if you're looking for expert opinion, move along, nothing to be seen here):
I've always spent too much time reading about what people think about software, instead of just digging in and messing around with it. I'm finally spending some time messing around with the free Sampletank 2. Now I understand why people talk about workflow and CPU efficiency. All the songs I've recorded so far have been just the basics: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, sampled drum pattern, voice, some simple orchestration, and occasional piano or organ. So I haven't really done anything with synths, but I'm looking to expand my horizons. I'm quickly realizing synths work great with tweaking and layering sounds. I don't like the size of the ST GUI, but it is so quick and easy to layer sounds with just a few clicks. Load a few sounds, a few quick drags to put them on Ch. 1. Use the mute or solo to test things. Say you want to change the panning, click on "synth", adjust, click another track, and you're ready to change it's pan, click, repeat, and so on. Quick and easy with all the other parameters, and effects that can be inserted. If I want to do the same thing using Logic's instruments, I have to create a new track for each one, and would have so many windows open for each instrument and effect that you quickly lose track of what is connected to what. I'm guessing the veterans around here have known this for so long, it's become subconscious knowledge, but if you're a total nOOb like me, try the free Sampletank for yourself, and experience how easy it is to layer and tweak. Compare it to your other sound options. And notice how low the CPU level is while you're at it. Then, if you want to take care of your sound needs for years to come at a great price (cuz if you're at the hobbyist level I'm at, we really don't need a $1000 library), this could be your golden ticket.
(Xenobt: I finally tried your advice to put on the "smile" eq and some compression, which then led me to further exploration. It's amazing how much variation you get from the Harmonics button with stretch. So many options: should I tweak, or layer, or add effects, or all three!)
osidenick (here and at esoundz)
I've always spent too much time reading about what people think about software, instead of just digging in and messing around with it. I'm finally spending some time messing around with the free Sampletank 2. Now I understand why people talk about workflow and CPU efficiency. All the songs I've recorded so far have been just the basics: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, sampled drum pattern, voice, some simple orchestration, and occasional piano or organ. So I haven't really done anything with synths, but I'm looking to expand my horizons. I'm quickly realizing synths work great with tweaking and layering sounds. I don't like the size of the ST GUI, but it is so quick and easy to layer sounds with just a few clicks. Load a few sounds, a few quick drags to put them on Ch. 1. Use the mute or solo to test things. Say you want to change the panning, click on "synth", adjust, click another track, and you're ready to change it's pan, click, repeat, and so on. Quick and easy with all the other parameters, and effects that can be inserted. If I want to do the same thing using Logic's instruments, I have to create a new track for each one, and would have so many windows open for each instrument and effect that you quickly lose track of what is connected to what. I'm guessing the veterans around here have known this for so long, it's become subconscious knowledge, but if you're a total nOOb like me, try the free Sampletank for yourself, and experience how easy it is to layer and tweak. Compare it to your other sound options. And notice how low the CPU level is while you're at it. Then, if you want to take care of your sound needs for years to come at a great price (cuz if you're at the hobbyist level I'm at, we really don't need a $1000 library), this could be your golden ticket.
(Xenobt: I finally tried your advice to put on the "smile" eq and some compression, which then led me to further exploration. It's amazing how much variation you get from the Harmonics button with stretch. So many options: should I tweak, or layer, or add effects, or all three!)
osidenick (here and at esoundz)
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- KVRAF
- 1612 posts since 18 Feb, 2011 from Salt Lake City, Utah
Another good tip is to try putting "Tone Control" on the master FX slot.osidenick wrote:Observations from a total nOOb (if you're looking for expert opinion, move along, nothing to be seen here):
I've always spent too much time reading about what people think about software, instead of just digging in and messing around with it. I'm finally spending some time messing around with the free Sampletank 2. Now I understand why people talk about workflow and CPU efficiency. All the songs I've recorded so far have been just the basics: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, sampled drum pattern, voice, some simple orchestration, and occasional piano or organ. So I haven't really done anything with synths, but I'm looking to expand my horizons. I'm quickly realizing synths work great with tweaking and layering sounds. I don't like the size of the ST GUI, but it is so quick and easy to layer sounds with just a few clicks. Load a few sounds, a few quick drags to put them on Ch. 1. Use the mute or solo to test things. Say you want to change the panning, click on "synth", adjust, click another track, and you're ready to change it's pan, click, repeat, and so on. Quick and easy with all the other parameters, and effects that can be inserted. If I want to do the same thing using Logic's instruments, I have to create a new track for each one, and would have so many windows open for each instrument and effect that you quickly lose track of what is connected to what. I'm guessing the veterans around here have known this for so long, it's become subconscious knowledge, but if you're a total nOOb like me, try the free Sampletank for yourself, and experience how easy it is to layer and tweak. Compare it to your other sound options. And notice how low the CPU level is while you're at it. Then, if you want to take care of your sound needs for years to come at a great price (cuz if you're at the hobbyist level I'm at, we really don't need a $1000 library), this could be your golden ticket.
(Xenobt: I finally tried your advice to put on the "smile" eq and some compression, which then led me to further exploration. It's amazing how much variation you get from the Harmonics button with stretch. So many options: should I tweak, or layer, or add effects, or all three!)
osidenick (here and at esoundz)
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
After fooling around a little more with the Clean Piano from the Hip Hop Instruments set, I think I've tracked it down.
It's a slightly lower resolution version of the Antique Grand Piano from the Squids Rare Instruments vol 2 (Acoustic) collection. The sound is "softened" a bit from the SRIv2(a) version - which in some ways makes it sound even better. But I think it's the same piano.
It's a slightly lower resolution version of the Antique Grand Piano from the Squids Rare Instruments vol 2 (Acoustic) collection. The sound is "softened" a bit from the SRIv2(a) version - which in some ways makes it sound even better. But I think it's the same piano.
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- KVRian
- 921 posts since 14 May, 2010 from Atlanta, GA
Well done, torgo!
I saw your post about playing it the other day, and find that it's one of the most lyrical of the ST pianos, maybe because of the "softening" you mention.
It was a real surprise to find it in Hip Hop Instruments, maybe it should be called Hip Pop Instruments instead! I've found LOTS of stuff in it (synths, basses, guitars) that are useful in other contexts AND it all sounds big and produced right out of the box.
And yeah, ObiK, that's a great way to get that "mastered" EQ curve too! And saw your post in the other thread, but I'm more partial to the STXL pianos than Sonik Synth's, but torgo would agree with you! C'est la vie...
About that... a helpful reminder (again from torgo) that if you buy or own Sonik Synth, it contains nearly all of the Piano Collection 2 library, so get something else cool with your free choices! (I've mentioned Electronic Drums so much, I need ED treatment. See Alice, anyone?)
And osidenick, +1.
"I've got a golden ticket, I've got a golden chance to make my way..."
Even with the sync/mode/legato controls, effects, layers and master section, you can work solely inside Sampletank and never bump your head on the CPU limit, and have so much tweakability that I sometimes have to remind myself I'm on a deadline!
I'm putting out the VI GB word on other KVR threads, (as you know ObiK) but that may be preaching to the choir! (Shout out to fellow GA boy Reverend Rhythm!)
torgo's idea of a gift VI if you already own everything is a great one too, with graduations and father's day upon us. Imagine dad's face when you give him an orchestra!
And if you DON'T have everything, and have a birthday or sobriety milestone coming up, I'm SURE your significant other would LOVE a clue as to what to buy you!
KVR/eSoundz: Xenobt
I saw your post about playing it the other day, and find that it's one of the most lyrical of the ST pianos, maybe because of the "softening" you mention.
It was a real surprise to find it in Hip Hop Instruments, maybe it should be called Hip Pop Instruments instead! I've found LOTS of stuff in it (synths, basses, guitars) that are useful in other contexts AND it all sounds big and produced right out of the box.
And yeah, ObiK, that's a great way to get that "mastered" EQ curve too! And saw your post in the other thread, but I'm more partial to the STXL pianos than Sonik Synth's, but torgo would agree with you! C'est la vie...
About that... a helpful reminder (again from torgo) that if you buy or own Sonik Synth, it contains nearly all of the Piano Collection 2 library, so get something else cool with your free choices! (I've mentioned Electronic Drums so much, I need ED treatment. See Alice, anyone?)
And osidenick, +1.
"I've got a golden ticket, I've got a golden chance to make my way..." Even with the sync/mode/legato controls, effects, layers and master section, you can work solely inside Sampletank and never bump your head on the CPU limit, and have so much tweakability that I sometimes have to remind myself I'm on a deadline!
I'm putting out the VI GB word on other KVR threads, (as you know ObiK) but that may be preaching to the choir! (Shout out to fellow GA boy Reverend Rhythm!)
torgo's idea of a gift VI if you already own everything is a great one too, with graduations and father's day upon us. Imagine dad's face when you give him an orchestra!
And if you DON'T have everything, and have a birthday or sobriety milestone coming up, I'm SURE your significant other would LOVE a clue as to what to buy you!
KVR/eSoundz: Xenobt
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
If anyone else decides to do the gift VI thing, keep in mind that once the serial number is registered with IK, they charge a fee to transfer the license to the recipient.
The best way to do it is to help your recipient set up an IK user ID and then register the serial in their name. That way they'll have immediate access to any future patches/upgrades to the program, and they'll also be eligible for crossgrade or upgrade pricing on any future promotions.
(Of course, whether you keep or give the bonus libraries is still entirely up to you. Registering the serial number takes place on the IK site. Your group buy bonuses are on the esoundz site.)
The best way to do it is to help your recipient set up an IK user ID and then register the serial in their name. That way they'll have immediate access to any future patches/upgrades to the program, and they'll also be eligible for crossgrade or upgrade pricing on any future promotions.
(Of course, whether you keep or give the bonus libraries is still entirely up to you. Registering the serial number takes place on the IK site. Your group buy bonuses are on the esoundz site.)
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
On the Electronic Drums Collection:
Short version: there's a noticeable overlap between Sonik Synth and that collection too, though it's nowhere near as big as the overlap between SS and the Piano Collection. Electronic Drums also has a bit of overlap with Hip Hop Instruments.
But there's still plenty of new material. If you're after electronic percussion, there's enough cool stuff here to be well worth one of your selection options.
More detail:
Electronic Drums certainly isn't the largest collection by file size - it weighs in at about 570 meg - but that's definitely not a problem with the set. It's simply the nature of electronic drums. They're typically short, staccato hits, and the "classics" are based on extremely simple waveforms. They simply don't take up much space.
The set has plenty to offer: Electronic Drums has 70 kits plus other elements: 39 synth drums, 45 synthetic percussion sounds, 22 electronic drum maps and 5 misc drums. So even though it's a smaller file, there are lots of different sounds in this set. You can be quite creative with these sounds, and many of them work well when layered with acoustic drums for extra punch or general trippiness.
The drum maps are probably my favorite parts of this set. Many of them are different hits from a single type of drum - for example, there are several maps of nothing but toms.
For those of you wanting randomized or round robin hits out of SampleTank, you can achieve that effect using these maps. Load a regular kit into one Part, then load a tom mapping into another Part and transpose it to a different area of the keyboard. From there, you play the kick and snare off the regular kits, and mix up the toms using the drum map. There are also maps for snares and other percussion, so you could throw in even more varied elements.
If you already have Sonik Synth, 25 of the kits (out of 70) in Electronic Drums are based on identical parent samples as the Sonik Synth kits. Likewise, 10 of the 39 synth drums and 12 of the 45 synthetic percussion sounds have identical parent samples as what's available in Sonik Synth. I haven't gone through each one to see if the effects settings are the same, but the .stw parent sample files are exact byte-for-byte matches.
There's also a bit of overlap with the electronic drums in the Hip Hop Instruments collection. 11 kits in Electronic Drums have parent samples that also appear in Hip Hop Instruments (9 of them are also in Sonik Synth, with 2 others in Hip Hop but not Sonik Synth). Three synth drums and one synth percussion sound match samples found in HHI - and all of these are also in Sonik Synth. Additionally, four of the electronic drum mappings appear in HHI. These four are percussion mappings from classic Roland drum machines: the TR-606, TR-808, TR-909, and CR-78.
But there's still a whole lot of unrepeated material - including 43 electronic drum kits plus the other 18 drum maps. If electronic percussion is important to you, there might be enough new material here to make it worthwhile even if you already own Sonik Synth.
-torgo (esoundz = bhall1968)
Short version: there's a noticeable overlap between Sonik Synth and that collection too, though it's nowhere near as big as the overlap between SS and the Piano Collection. Electronic Drums also has a bit of overlap with Hip Hop Instruments.
But there's still plenty of new material. If you're after electronic percussion, there's enough cool stuff here to be well worth one of your selection options.
More detail:
Electronic Drums certainly isn't the largest collection by file size - it weighs in at about 570 meg - but that's definitely not a problem with the set. It's simply the nature of electronic drums. They're typically short, staccato hits, and the "classics" are based on extremely simple waveforms. They simply don't take up much space.
The set has plenty to offer: Electronic Drums has 70 kits plus other elements: 39 synth drums, 45 synthetic percussion sounds, 22 electronic drum maps and 5 misc drums. So even though it's a smaller file, there are lots of different sounds in this set. You can be quite creative with these sounds, and many of them work well when layered with acoustic drums for extra punch or general trippiness.
The drum maps are probably my favorite parts of this set. Many of them are different hits from a single type of drum - for example, there are several maps of nothing but toms.
For those of you wanting randomized or round robin hits out of SampleTank, you can achieve that effect using these maps. Load a regular kit into one Part, then load a tom mapping into another Part and transpose it to a different area of the keyboard. From there, you play the kick and snare off the regular kits, and mix up the toms using the drum map. There are also maps for snares and other percussion, so you could throw in even more varied elements.
If you already have Sonik Synth, 25 of the kits (out of 70) in Electronic Drums are based on identical parent samples as the Sonik Synth kits. Likewise, 10 of the 39 synth drums and 12 of the 45 synthetic percussion sounds have identical parent samples as what's available in Sonik Synth. I haven't gone through each one to see if the effects settings are the same, but the .stw parent sample files are exact byte-for-byte matches.
There's also a bit of overlap with the electronic drums in the Hip Hop Instruments collection. 11 kits in Electronic Drums have parent samples that also appear in Hip Hop Instruments (9 of them are also in Sonik Synth, with 2 others in Hip Hop but not Sonik Synth). Three synth drums and one synth percussion sound match samples found in HHI - and all of these are also in Sonik Synth. Additionally, four of the electronic drum mappings appear in HHI. These four are percussion mappings from classic Roland drum machines: the TR-606, TR-808, TR-909, and CR-78.
But there's still a whole lot of unrepeated material - including 43 electronic drum kits plus the other 18 drum maps. If electronic percussion is important to you, there might be enough new material here to make it worthwhile even if you already own Sonik Synth.
-torgo (esoundz = bhall1968)
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- KVRer
- 4 posts since 25 Apr, 2011
I posted this elsewhere, but should have posted it here:
I was in on the Sampletank group buy (last year?) that gave eight sound libraries from the Sonic Reality line and a free copy of Sampletank 2.5, all for only $50 (!!!!) I would like to get in the current group buy but I'm not sure which VI to choose. If I pick Sampletank 2 XL, will I be getting a lot of the same sounds I already have with the free version of ST and the Sonic Reality libraries? (I chose acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, pianos, cinematik, omnisynth 2, symphony strings and world instruments.) I don't use synths in my music, but maybe the bread and butter sounds of Sonik Synth 2 would give me more variety than choosing ST2 XL. The easiest thing would be if I could see a list of the sounds in SS2 and ST2 XL, but I haven't been able to locate those if they exist. Thanks for any help, I'm still new to computer music but I will vouch for ST2 being EASY TO USE, which was very important to me.
I was in on the Sampletank group buy (last year?) that gave eight sound libraries from the Sonic Reality line and a free copy of Sampletank 2.5, all for only $50 (!!!!) I would like to get in the current group buy but I'm not sure which VI to choose. If I pick Sampletank 2 XL, will I be getting a lot of the same sounds I already have with the free version of ST and the Sonic Reality libraries? (I chose acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, pianos, cinematik, omnisynth 2, symphony strings and world instruments.) I don't use synths in my music, but maybe the bread and butter sounds of Sonik Synth 2 would give me more variety than choosing ST2 XL. The easiest thing would be if I could see a list of the sounds in SS2 and ST2 XL, but I haven't been able to locate those if they exist. Thanks for any help, I'm still new to computer music but I will vouch for ST2 being EASY TO USE, which was very important to me.
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- KVRist
- 380 posts since 22 Jun, 2007
Could someone post lists of sounds in Sampletron extras and Squids tron extras?
I have all the xpansion tanks I'm interested of from previous gb and thought I could make a nice tron collection by picking both "gap filler" tron libs.
I have all the xpansion tanks I'm interested of from previous gb and thought I could make a nice tron collection by picking both "gap filler" tron libs.
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- KVRist
- 79 posts since 14 Nov, 2005 from berlin,germany
I posted the soundlist for Sampletron Extras earlier in the thread:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... t=#4518615
unfortunately, I can't help you with the Squids Tron extras... anyone else?
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... t=#4518615
unfortunately, I can't help you with the Squids Tron extras... anyone else?
tobias tinker
sonic adventures and experiments at:
tobiastinker.com
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music is easy; just start with complete silence and take away the parts you don't like!
sonic adventures and experiments at:
tobiastinker.com
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music is easy; just start with complete silence and take away the parts you don't like!
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
Beelzebob - From what you've said, Sonik Synth vs SampleTank XL will be a very tough call. I really don't think you could go wrong either way.
I don't know of sound listings posted anywhere for either set. They're both huge libraries, so the lists would be absurdly long - and I suspect they wouldn't help that much anyway.
Here's a quick rundown:
Sonik Synth has a significantly larger library (over 8.5 gig) than ST XL (4.8 gig base library plus about 1.6 gig of "bonus" sounds from Miroslav, Sonik Synth, and various Expansion Tanks). But a lot of that will be centered around keyboard and synth sounds.
The Piano Collection 2 will be mostly repeats of what's in Sonik Synth. The other XpansionTank libraries you picked up last year will also have some repeats in Sonik Synth, but not too bad - three sounds from Symphony Strings, ten (all small ones) from Cinematik, etc. The Piano Collection is the only one that really gets ripped to shreds with repeats.
SampleTank XL's library is still pretty big - and there will be no repeats at all from your other libraries. ST's library was created by/for IK. Sonik Synth and your other libraries were all created by Sonic Reality. Different companies = no exact duplicates.
In fact, all those XpansionTank libraries were created specifically to expand what you would have in SampleTank XL. So with those eight libraries plus the three more you'll add with the group buy, you've already expanded your favorite areas very nicely.
(With that in mind, you might even consider a specialty set like Miroslav Philharmonik rather than either of ST or SS.)
I'm not sure what your personal tiebreaker would be. The one edge for SampleTank might be the acoustic piano, since you already have the Piano Collection 2. For synth sounds, Sonik Synth 2 is hands down the winner. It has well over 2 gig of synth and other vintage keyboards. SampleTank XL only has about 250 meg of that stuff. For most other instruments, it's pretty close to dead even.
-torgo (esoundz = bhall1968)
I don't know of sound listings posted anywhere for either set. They're both huge libraries, so the lists would be absurdly long - and I suspect they wouldn't help that much anyway.
Here's a quick rundown:
Sonik Synth has a significantly larger library (over 8.5 gig) than ST XL (4.8 gig base library plus about 1.6 gig of "bonus" sounds from Miroslav, Sonik Synth, and various Expansion Tanks). But a lot of that will be centered around keyboard and synth sounds.
The Piano Collection 2 will be mostly repeats of what's in Sonik Synth. The other XpansionTank libraries you picked up last year will also have some repeats in Sonik Synth, but not too bad - three sounds from Symphony Strings, ten (all small ones) from Cinematik, etc. The Piano Collection is the only one that really gets ripped to shreds with repeats.
SampleTank XL's library is still pretty big - and there will be no repeats at all from your other libraries. ST's library was created by/for IK. Sonik Synth and your other libraries were all created by Sonic Reality. Different companies = no exact duplicates.
In fact, all those XpansionTank libraries were created specifically to expand what you would have in SampleTank XL. So with those eight libraries plus the three more you'll add with the group buy, you've already expanded your favorite areas very nicely.
(With that in mind, you might even consider a specialty set like Miroslav Philharmonik rather than either of ST or SS.)
I'm not sure what your personal tiebreaker would be. The one edge for SampleTank might be the acoustic piano, since you already have the Piano Collection 2. For synth sounds, Sonik Synth 2 is hands down the winner. It has well over 2 gig of synth and other vintage keyboards. SampleTank XL only has about 250 meg of that stuff. For most other instruments, it's pretty close to dead even.
-torgo (esoundz = bhall1968)
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- KVRAF
- 9885 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
It's getting close to the end of the sale.. any idea if it might be extended?
I asked about this before, but thought "maybe" they'd change the ending date so it goes on into June, if there were enough sales.
I asked about this before, but thought "maybe" they'd change the ending date so it goes on into June, if there were enough sales.
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- KVRian
- 505 posts since 30 Jan, 2007
I can't guarantee I have this exactly as it is in Squids Tron Exclusive Extras. I have both Squids Tron and SampleTron (the full sets), so the potential Exclusive Extras list is just from comparing what doesn't match.sauli wrote:Could someone post lists of sounds in Sampletron extras and Squids tron extras?
I have all the xpansion tanks I'm interested of from previous gb and thought I could make a nice tron collection by picking both "gap filler" tron libs.
I show Squids Tron Exclusive Extras as potentially having 47 parent samples totaling almost 900 meg:
AmpexTronNL: 8 vc choir, boys choir, brass, flute, guitar, string section, trumpet, vibes, viola
Chamberlins Q (Q = extra quirky = even more warbles, flutter, clicks, wow and other tape problems than the other Mellotrons): Far Out 1 (airy voice-like thing - like in the final segment of 2001), M4 Att Mrmbs MP (marimbas), clarinet, male voices, sax, wah trombone, acoustic guitar, brass, pizzicato violin, squeezebox, string section, trombone, trumpet, piano, string bass plucked, Trombone D, muted trumpet, vibes.
Jaymar Toy Piano: toy piano.
JB Harmonium: Harmonium #2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, Pumping, Pump2.
Optrons: Record noise, violin, V6.
Q Trons (again - Q for quirky): 3 Violins B, Cello, Cello 2, Cello MX, Flute, Strings 2, Strings 5, Vibe.
The two fill-in libraries combined would make an interesting 'Tron collection. But note that the "best" sounds of the set were included in both instruments - so you won't get them in either of the exclusive extras.
If by chance you have Sonik Synth, you'll have at least a decent representation of the staples in high quality (at least high quality for a Mellotron) in its Tron folder. The two Exclusive Extras sets would then give you the weird and wonderful.