Eminem. Genesis. Shakira. Black Eyed Peas. Outkast. Nine Inch Nails. Herbie Hancock. That's a pretty diverse group of Grammy winning artists. However besides the award they share another thing in common. They've all used SampleTank samples for their album and/or soundtrack work. And that's just a small sample of the thousands of professional pop and specialized musicians who have found SampleTank to be their go-to sample software.

This incarnation the SampleTank 2.5 XL Sample Workstation will surely continue this trend as it still provides you with one of the most wide-ranging collection of sounds available-more than 1800 samples of acoustic grand pianos electric pianos strings brass winds vocals orchestral sounds drums guitars synths loops ethnic instruments and more. It also has the ability to read all "Powered by SampleTank" instrument sounds including Miroslav Philharmonik Sonik Synth the upcoming SampleMoog Studiophonik and SampleTron. You can also import your own WAV AIFF AKAI SDII and SampleCell files for an unlimited range of sounds.

But it's not just the variety of high-quality sounding instruments it's compatible with that makes this such a sought after sampler. It's what you can do with them as well. After your initial quick install you'll be up and running within seconds. The speed at which sounds load is amazing keeping you in the creative flow as opposed to the hurry-up and wait of other virtual instrument samplers.

SampleTank 2.5 Sample Software offers more than 50 sampler controls that are accessible from an uncomplicated intelligible single interface. Three advanced sample engines-traditional resampling STRETCH and PS/TS-allow unrivaled sound manipulation. The STRETCH engine delivers amazing realism and expression over multi-sampled instruments with options like true glide bending staccato and vibrato control all with an incredibly sumptuous yet real sound quality. If your song requires loops the PSTS engine (Pitch-shift/Time-stretch) lets you synchronize loops with a single click. You can also control tempo and pitch independently of each other making this the ideal beat maker.

SampleTank 2.5 virtual instrument also provides some of the most powerful multi-effects to come in a virtual instrument. Every sound in SampleTank was programmed with fully editable built-in effects-drums load up with reverb and compression guitars with amp-sim electric organs with rotary speaker etc. It's unique system of 5 insert effects per part with 5 send and 5 master effects gives you up to 90 effects options available in one powerful production package. You can also work with the algorithms from IK Multimedia's award-winning T-RackS Classik Studio Reverb and AmpliTube emulator.

For over 6.5GB of sounds including a bonus disc you can't do much better than SampleTank 2.5. The last version was a big hit with the hitmakers of all genres.

IK Multimedia SampleTank 2.5 XL Sample Workstation Virtual Instrument Specifications:

• System Requirements
• (Power PC-based Macintosh)
• Minimal: 866MHz G4 processor 512MB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
• Suggested: dual 1.25GHz G4 or G5 processor 1GB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: AU VST RTAS
  
  (Intel-based Macintosh)
• Minimal: 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor 512MB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
• Suggested: 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor 1GB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: AU VST RTAS
  
  (Windows)
• Minimal: Pentium 1GHz / Athlon XP 1.33GHz 512MB of RAM Windows XP / Vista or later.
• Suggested: Pentium 2.4GHz / Athlon XP 1.33GHz 1GB of RAM Windows XP / Vista or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: VST RTAS
  
  Note: SampleTank 2 RTAS requires Pro Tools 7.0 or later

IK Multimedia SampleTank 2.5 XL Sample Workstation Virtual Instrument Features:

• Works as a standalone application as well as a plug-in in Mac OS (Universal Binary) and Windows (XP/Vista)
• Supported plug-in formats: VST RTAS and AU
• Imports WAV AIFF SDII AKAI S-1000/3000 and SampleCell directly from the plug-in.
• 16 part multitimbral sound module with layerable parts.
• 3 synth engines: newly enhanced STRETCH and Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch (PS/TS) plus traditional Resampling.
• 33 built-in DSP effects.
• Part and Master Loop Sync.
• Independent Part and Master Volume/Pan controls.
• 2 DVDs of sounds 6.5 GB of samples and more than 1800 patches included.
• Reads any instruments from "Powered by SampleTank" sound modules such as Miroslav Philharmonik Sonik Synth and more
• 16 individual stereo outputs
• Mix view and full mix parameter control
• Powerful Effects section that includes 5 effects per part 5 Send and 5 Master effects with up to 90 effects available at once in any one module
• Send Effects includes Send and Return controls and Pre-Post options
• Range Controls allows for creating complex splits and layers
• Instrument browsing
• Total sound editing with full access to 50 Synth-Sampler engine controls
• BPM syncable LFOs
• Portamento Time and Curve controls with multiple selectable curves
• Zone feature for single sample accurate editing
• Expanded easy-to-use full MIDI control
• Responds to MIDI Program change
• User preset and module save features
• Convenient back-up function
• Customizable keywords and sound search function with integrated sounds database
• 256 notes polyphony
• Customizable display colors

Get XL with your productions-order today!