cclarry Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 now $99.99 instead of $299: https://www.jrrshop.com/ik-multimedia?dir=desc&order=special_from_date 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecode 101 Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 (edited) I just checked and compared to the IKM site pricing, it seems the MAX and MAX upgrade are same price. The upgrade should be priced lower, no? @Peter - IK Multimedia source: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/syntronik2/index.php?p=versions Edited December 7, 2022 by telecode 101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 13 hours ago, cclarry said: now $99.99 instead of $299: https://www.jrrshop.com/ik-multimedia?dir=desc&order=special_from_date Need the $200 savings for a SSD. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Neudorf Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 After vast amounts of futzing around, I've placed only the sampletank 3/4, syntronik1/2 "Samples" directories on an external HDD, with the instruments, library resources and info, and presets and multis on my main SSD. This is quite fast; I can select presets/sounds almost instantly (because they're on the SSD). Loading sounds takes a couple of seconds, but seems fine. Move Samples from "Users/Public/Public Documents/IK Multimedia/Syntronik 2 Sound Content" to my f: drive, then mklink /J "Samples" f:\ik_data\syntronik2_samples\ This way I don't need to mess with IK's fragile product manager. 20GB for Sampletank/Syntronik on my SSD, 521GB for Sampletank/Syntronik/Miroslav on my HDD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Sampletank stuff loads fine on a spinning drive. I rarely ever use any of it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecode 101 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I keep all ST stuff on a separate SSD drive. It works fine. I am quite a big ST user and will do an entire demo with just one instance on ST and multiple midi tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 17 hours ago, Jason Neudorf said: After vast amounts of futzing around, I've placed only the sampletank 3/4, syntronik1/2 "Samples" directories on an external HDD, with the instruments, library resources and info, and presets and multis on my main SSD. This is quite fast; I can select presets/sounds almost instantly (because they're on the SSD). Loading sounds takes a couple of seconds, but seems fine. For best performance I keep my samples on a secondary internal drive (SATA SSD), and only use external USB drives for backups. I realize that a 2nd internal drive is not always possible with a laptop, but I would recommend it for all desktop configurations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 5 hours ago, telecode 101 said: I keep all ST stuff on a separate SSD drive. It works fine. I am quite a big ST user and will do an entire demo with just one instance on ST and multiple midi tracks. I've posted on forums asking for favorite ST sounds and the answer is always crickets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecode 101 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: I've posted on forums asking for favorite ST sounds and the answer is always crickets. Well. everyone is different. The ones I use a lot are: - Hugh Padgham - SampleTron 2 - L.A. Confidential - Terry Bozzio Drums - Fractured Piano - Malletopia - Art Deco Piano The thing about ST is it has that sample editor that gives you a single consistent interface from which to quickly tweak and edit the sounds to what you want them to sound like. I think it's easier to use than Kontakt and Halion. But I wish IKM made a lighter interface for it. Its hard to read sometimes. Edited December 8, 2022 by telecode 101 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 8 minutes ago, telecode 101 said: Well. everyone is different. The ones I use a lot are: - Hugh Padgham - SampleTron 2 - L.A. Confidential - Terry Bozzio Drums - Fractured Piano - Malletopia - Art Deco Piano The thing about ST is it has that sample editor that gives you a single consistent interface from which to quickly tweak and edit the sounds to what you want them to sound like. I think it's easier to use than Kontakt and Halion. But I wish IKM made a lighter interface for it. Its hard to read sometimes. I was referring to the factory library of ST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecode 101 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, kitekrazy said: I was referring to the factory library of ST. Once again. Highly dependent on personal music taste. I have used the brush kits stuff a lot as I don't have many good brush kits. There was also on some other thread forum a guy who mentioned a particular nylon guitar sample who "claimed" ST was the only library on the market that had a good sample of that sound. But I have no idea. I don't use those sounds. My take on this stuff is, if you have the tool at your disposal, try to use it and see what it does for you. Edited December 8, 2022 by telecode 101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 10 minutes ago, telecode 101 said: Once again. Highly dependent on personal music taste. I have used the brush kits stuff a lot as I don't have many good brush kits. There was also on some other thread forum a guy who mentioned a particular nylon guitar sample who "claimed" ST was the only library on the market that had a good sample of that sound. But I have no idea. I don't use those sounds. My take on this stuff is, if you have the tool at your disposal, try to use it and see what it does for you. It would take me a week to audition factory stuff. I was never a fan of Mellotron stuff but IKs is very good. I can't stand the ST browser and often have to use the GUI that comes with their product addons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter - IK Multimedia Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 12/7/2022 at 7:19 AM, telecode 101 said: I just checked and compared to the IKM site pricing, it seems the MAX and MAX upgrade are same price. The upgrade should be priced lower, no? @Peter - IK Multimedia source: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/syntronik2/index.php?p=versions This is a "mono-priced" deal, part of our Black Friday MAX deal that has been running and all versions of Syntronik MAX are 99.99 (as are the other MAX versions like T-RackS 5 MAX, AmpliTube 5 MAX, and SampleTank 4 MAX). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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