Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3, AAX. Windows® (64-bits) Minimal: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2, 4 GB of RAM (8 GB suggested), Windows® 7, Windows® 8 or Windows® 10. 34 GB of hard drive space. SampleTank 3 SE by IK Multimedia is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin and a Standalone Application for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin, a VST 3 Plugin, an AAX Plugin and a Standalone Application.
A professional grade sound workstation that enables the sound of multiple instruments to be added and edited to create unique audio projects
What's new in SampleTank 3.7.3:
- Added support for London Grooves available as a new Custom Shop instrument collections for SampleTank 3
- General reliability improvements
SampleTank is an advanced software utility that enables professionals to compose and mix music. It can be used as a standalone tool or plugin, and it contains an extensive library with high-quality sound samples, three synthesizing engines, many built-in DSP effects, and so on.
Setup and initial configuration
The complete package includes three SampleTank plug-ins: AAX, VST, and Audio Units. Any of these components can be excluded from the installation. At the first program startup, it is necessary to configure settings related to the instrument when it comes to the path and mode (high quality or high performance).
This panel can be hidden from future runs. Also, you can set audio midi options regarding audio device and driver, routing, sample rate, and buffer size. There are ample customizing options, as you can add effects and a lot of outputs. The range of features makes it a professional grade tool.
Advanced audio mixer with many samples and effects
The interface looks professional and provides buttons for all effects and settings directly in the main frame. When it comes to mixing audio, it is possible to adjust the pitch, low and high gain, mid frequency, range, tempo, and many others. The previous session can be set to reload on startup.
You can import audio files with the WAV, AIFF, and SDII extensions, as well as take advantage of the three synth engines available: STRETCH, polyphonic pitch-shift, and resampling.
Evaluation and conclusion
We have not come across any stability issues in our tests since the application did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It has a good response time, yet it requires a decent amount of CPU and RAM, and it will put a strain on computer performance. SampleTank comes loaded with numerous sound samples and effects to help users put together high-quality musical compositions.
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SampleTank was reviewed by Elena OprisSampletank Free Vst
LIMITATIONS IN THE UNREGISTERED VERSION- 10 days trial
- Various features disabled.
- Nag screen
- CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
- RAM: 4 GB
- HDD: 34 GB free space
- ASIO compatible sound card
- Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 2, VST 3, AAX
SampleTank 3.7.3
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- Windows 10 64 bit
Windows 8 64 bit
Windows 7 64 bit - file size:
- 428 MB
- filename:
- SampleTank_Custom_Shop_3.7.3.zip
- main category:
- Multimedia
- developer:
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Hi forum,so I just bought sampleTank3 and installed. After 2 days of hard work and trouble shooting I can now see SampleTank 3 in the GUI (before I saw SampleTank FREE) and all the instruments and all the categories (before I could not). There's a link in the 'my products' section that says 'click here to download sound library update 3.5' I downloaded and installed. This is where I got all of the instrument.st3i files. But I've read in other places that I also need instrument.pak files in order for it to work. Right now, ST3 says it failed to load instruments when I try to load them, supposedly because I don't have the .pak files. I do, however, have a single SamplteTank 3.pak file, but idk where it needs to be or wether it is the issue
I have also contacted support 2 days ago and got 1 response (I think they take the weekend off) that said I need to download sound installers 1-8. What is he talking about? Where can I get these installers?
Or does anyone know how to solve this 'failed to load instrument' issue?