With SampleTank 3 SE, users get a taste of the 4,000 instruments available in the full version via a fully functional selection of 400 carefully selected, meticulously sampled instruments from 20 categories that stretch across every genre, style and type imaginable. The reason SampleTank has remained an industry standard after all these years is due to the superior quality and sheer amount of sounds it offers. Featuring 64-bit compatibility, a completely redesigned user interface, 55 high-quality effects, new loop and groove management and a retooled sample engine, SampleTank 3 SE is an affordable gateway to a whole new world of sounds. Available as a standalone program or as bundled software with iRig KEYS, iRig KEYS with Lightning, iRig KEYS PRO, iRig MIDI 2, iRig Pads and iRig PRO, it gives users the freedom to experiment with a completely functional 6.5 GB library of 400 high-quality instruments, over 250 loops and 150 MIDI patterns that illustrate the broad sonic versatility of SampleTank 3. So, it's kinda like Photoshop's 'save for web' function for sound designers: reduce the quality until the source material starts to suffer, then back it off a bit.Introducing the affordable and fully functional special edition of the next generation sound workstationĪnnouncing the release of SampleTank 3 SE, an introductory special edition of IK's flagship sound and groove workstation for Mac/PC. For example, a triangle lead may be able to suffer much more compression (due to the fact that it has very little bandwidth and harmonics) when compared with a steel-string guitar, or harpsichord, both of which contain a great deal of non-static harmonics. AWM2, on the other hand, allows the programmer (sound designer) to roughly optimize the compression for a given sample.

We all know that the Big Three use data compression on their core ROM libraries (which is why their specs read, 'when converted to 16-bit linear,' rather than specifying a raw megabyte size.) The way I was told, AWM uses a constant algorithm to encode the wave information. If I haven't been misinformed by the Yamaha chap who told me, it goes like this: There are 16-bit Yamaha synths using AWM: MU100r, the aforementioned Clavinova, etc. I'd like to politely disagree with the 'AWM=12bit, AWM2=16bit' hypothesis.

Yamaha awm2 vs sampletank 3