You have solo and mute too.Ĭhanging settings is as easy as clicking on the value and moving your mouse up or down. You get three types of sample playback, re sample, pitch shift/tempo shift, and stretch. The re sample is the basic playback of most samplers, pitch shift and tempo shift are also pretty self explanatory. The stretch engine is pretty unique, you can manipulate the pitch, tempo, and timbre of a sample or instrument independent of each other…it can get pretty freaky. There’s also the standard filter, envelope and lfo settings.

If there is one thing I don’t really care for, it’s the sound browser. Being the first to do something usually means you get piggybacked by a lot of others, and SampleTank 2.5 XL set the standard for software workstations. Unfortunately they haven’t updated that standard the browser shows it, it’s very cumbersome in my opinion. However, some of the instruments have a default sound, as well as a tree beneath them which holds other presets! You have a basic top level folder for each sound category, which then opens a tree for the instruments in that category.

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