Sampletank 2 coming soon...

[Scoot]

http://www.osxaudio.com/index.php?story=549

- SampleTank 2 XL, 8CDs of sounds with 1.500 sounds and more than 4.5 GB of samples, 8 CDs, $/€499
- SampleTank 2 L, 4CDs of sounds with 500 sounds and more than 2GB of samples, 4 CDs, $/€299

There will be 2 upgrades, all to XL (must be a registered ST1 user to be eligible):
- SampleTank 2 DJ, L, XL 1 to XL2 , 8CDs, $/€249
- SampleTank 2 SE (002 bundle), LE 1 to XL2 , 8CDs, $/€349



Was sampletank 1 this big??? (8 CDs and 4CDs)

scoot.

[Jerm]

Sampletank XL = 4 CD's

[hallhenry]

I 've been workin with the Free Sampletank, really nice stuff.

However, what are MAS, RTAS, versus VST? do those others work with mac and os x?

Thanks..hh

[Scoot]

MAS is a format that works with Performer from MOTU.
Perhaps MOTU Audiosuite = "MAS"?

RTAS is a format known as real time audio suite and is like the poor mans TDM plug-ins that run under protools.

Protools has 2 different types of rig.
The high end kind (TDM) for the pros usually has PCI cards which you install in your mac. They have a certain number of DSP chips on them and the effects run off these rather than take up your CPU.
This allows some unique features that can't be offered to the consumer market.

RTAS works with Protools LE the lite version usually found with a Digi 001 or 002 and the other consumer products.
The effects need your CPU to run and can be pretty hungry.
A 1176 compressor on a 450mhz mac takes more than 70% cpu and when you hit stop it takes a while to respond.
When you can get a similar effect in a VST and it is still responsive, you wonder why the RTAS is such a dog to use.

I would say all the formats now work on OSX as performer and pro tools are out for osx now.

Oh and RTAS is known as real time because the original audiosuite plugs were used by taking your audio and processing them with a processing dialog up on the screen.......similar to the way you could do effects in sound edit years ago. They were offline effects.

According to the MOTU website they can support the TDM hardware....so if you like the DSP power and don't like the protools software you have a choice.

So there is audiosuite, rtas, tdm, vst and audio units.
Out of them VST is probably the most common and audio units catching up.

sorry about the ramble.....

scoot.

[hallhenry]

Thanks for the rundown on that. i got some of it. As long as I know that VST is the one for me.

I'm looking to invest in the SampleTank L with over a gig of sounds. If you're interested, the best price I got was not at the Sampletank website, but at a place called esoundsz.com. Sorry if that's "improper" to mention.


see ya...hh

[Scoot]

did you try audiomidi.com?

they seem to have lower than retail prices too.


scoot.

[hallhenry]

I finally purchased the SampleTank L at Zzonds.com, not Esoundz.com

They met and bet Esoundz price and offered free shipping. My final damage was only 177.95. Pretty Good. However, I just missed the package deal that's at the Sample Tank website offer Sampletank and Sonic for around 329. I got all my wallet could handle right now.

Thanks

[hallhenry]

I meant to say "they met and beat"..., but I got a little too poetically rapzodic!!

[Scoot]

What's sonic?


scoot.