SampleTron Gets a “Big Thumbs Up” from Recording Mag
Review of IK’s “Tron” anthology synth
Mike Metlay, Editor of Recording Magazine, shares his love for the "Trons" of yesteryear in his review of SampleTron™. Here are some quotes from the review: "Over all, this is a very comprehensive, powerful, and flexible engine, and it's light on CPU load—in standalone mode on my 2 GHz MacBook with 2 GB RAM running OS X 10.4.11, a six-part Combi playing back eight notes per part barely touched 25% CPU load, and more conservative two-part Combis sat at 3–5%. IK's philosophy seems to be that once a user gets comfortable with the engine, all he or she needs to do is decide on the bundled content desired—or alternatively, buy SampleTank 2 XL itself and load these libraries in as raw material. There's no need to relearn all the instrument parameters when you load up a new set of sounds!""These sounds are lovingly recorded, impeccably presented (given their flaws), and will fire all sorts of memories in players' brains. You'll hear "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Daniel" with the flute, "Watcher of the Skies" and "Nights in White Satin" from the violins, and who knows what other magical tracks of yesteryear... not to mention many modern tracks that have revisited these sounds. Better yet, thanks to the underlying playback engine you can mix and mash and mangle them with a whole slew of modern sample manipulation processes, save and load the results easily, and carry them all around with you under your arm—and nary a tape head to clean or clutch wheel assembly to tighten in the bunch!""SampleTron comes off not so much a perfect re-creation of vintage keyboard sounds, but as a powerful and flexible sample player plug-in that happens to use a huge collection of vintage sounds as its source material.""SampleTron gives you exactly what the original keyboards sounded like, minus a few subtle quirks that aren't yet reproducible in software, so they're as "authentic" as any sampling of a vintage keyboard can be—perhaps more so, since the originals weren't velocity-sensitive, so playing a note was playing a note, period.""If you're the sort of person who goes nuts for these old Tron sounds and dreams of being able to either play them back with full authenticity or massage them into something entirely new, you'll want to take SampleTron out for a spin. For its content, its flexibility, and its lean use of processing power, it gets a big thumbs-up from this old Tron-lover."Read the entire review from Recording Magazine. Learn more about the authentic and vintage keyboard sounds of SampleTron.
2009-05-07
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