SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE INSTALL
SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE UPDATE
SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE PLUS

I read in another thread that I should doenload some 'Sound Installer 1-8'.Д«ut on the IK Website 'my products' I don't find anything like that. It says 'the sound content was updated correctly'.Д«ut when I open SampleTank and try to load for example some 'Old Rock Kit' it says 'Failed to load instrument'. I don't regret the purchase.I downloaded ST3, instalation, registration, authorization everything fine.Дownloaded the 'SampleTank_3_Sound_Library_Update_3.5' and did the instalation. Those additions to my sound palette were enough to justify the expense, but just barely.

SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE PLUS

Bottom line is I spent hundreds of dollars to keep on using ST2 and Miroslav, plus picking up a handful of useful instruments. Point 2 was something of a disappointment, as sound quality varies from poor to mediocre to very good, and there aren't many instruments I didn't already have. I was satisfied on point 1, as it did import all my favorite ST2 libraries (I'm not sure all of them sound exactly the same, though). Mesh, my motivation for buying ST3 was twofold: 1) ST2 was a favorite that no longer worked in my new 64-bit DAW, and 2) I was hoping ST3's long gestation meant either more or drastically better-sounding instruments. I could not figure out keypresses for paging through the browser (PgUp, PgDn do nothing), switching views, playing the virtual keyboard or adjusting any parameters. dub, I was able to navigate the instrument browser using only the keyboard (right-arrow to expand a category, left-arrow to collapse it, Enter or right-arrow to load an instrument), if that's what you mean. I don't think I'll bother with a retry, given that the new instruments are not likely to be of interest to me anyway.

SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE INSTALL

When I got up this morning, the library files' download had completed, but the zip file was corrupt so I was unable to install them.

It's pretty clear the direction IKM is going.Minimal, Hip-hop, Trance, House, EDM, Hardcore, Techno.I feel so old. I've said before that I think this is a brilliant bit of marketing, but I was pretty disappointed by the wares on display there. Gave the Custom Shop a look (it takes a while to start up, be patient). But don't get your hopes up dub/Rain, it's the same interface, near as I can tell. In summary, the pluses are: installation was painless, no need to re-scan or re-authorize, and nothing got broken. Happy to see my imported libraries and good ol' Miroslav are still there. I do notice that it's now rather sluggish when switching between views, but it's only a 2-second delay so I'm not concerned. No other enhancements are obvious, at least at first glance.

And I have the ability to add a barely-visible grey star next to individual instruments to flag my favorites. All I see is that there is now an icon next to the top-level tree list item. Upon completion, I was relieved that it didn't make me go through online authorization again. This takes a few minutes, so I have a cup of tea.

Think we're done? Not so fast - on first load, it rebuilds the instruments database, perhaps on the presumption that I've followed instructions and added the new instruments. The installer first runs the authorization manager installer, then the custom shop installer (I was hoping there'd be an option to skip that). Windows once again complained that I was putting my computer at risk by running the installer.

SAMPLETANK 3 UPDATE UPDATE

With 3 hours remaining on the library download, I went ahead and installed the executable update anyway. The installer says you can't skip the library update 'or some instruments will not sound correct'.

Sampletank 3 update