SampleTank Libraries for $5 at Esoundz

[cclarry]

Get 'em here

https://esoundz.com/news1.php?nbr=6138

[Reid Rosefelt]

The Vocal Collection and the World Instruments are steals at $5.

[Grem]

Are these the same sounds that come with ST MAX?

[cclarry]

43 minutes ago, Grem said:

Are these the same sounds that come with ST MAX?

These are from SampleTank 2.5.  They are older, but still importable into
ST3/4

[mibby]

Ummm... Are you sure these are current??  The title on that page is "2018 Black Friday Deals Start EARLY at eSoundz!"

[cclarry]

3 minutes ago, mibby said:

Ummm... Are you sure these are current??  The title on that page is "2018 Black Friday Deals Start EARLY at eSoundz!"

They're adding to the cart...I didn't even notice that...but the prices are working

Edited September 23, 2019 by cclarry

[Reid Rosefelt]

2 minutes ago, mibby said:

Ummm... Are you sure these are current??  The title on that page is "2018 Black Friday Deals Start EARLY at eSoundz!"

This is very old stuff.  I first encountered these sounds as Reason refills ages ago.   But for example, in the vocals there is a Beach Boys type sound, which I haven't heard anywhere.  Of course it has no legato.  It's not realistic by contemporary standards but still fun.

[sarine]

This "sale" seems permanent. I bought many of these months ago at the same prices. The sounds are good, they have the grit and realness to them that is absent from the more current, "higher quality" sound packs. With a little know-how you can still do much of the same stuff with these as you would with the "better" sounds.

There are imperfections, some invited (e.g. what counts as 'grit') and some uninvited (e.g. more or less severe unevenness in dynamics of different sampled pitches of the same instrument that are not attributable to physical characteristics of the instrument). They also don't come with elaborate scripted simulations of real instruments' behavior that some more current synth/rompler VI's use now (something that can be considered both good or bad), and there are not a hundred takes on each sample made using a hundred microphones from every possible angle in an acoustically engineered space. That's not to say a lot of that same processing can't be done with your third party effects. In any case you're advised to know and respect the limitations.

There is a lot of overlap between different sample sets, so a potential buyer may want to do a little research on that prior to purchase, if only to avoid the disappointment from paying for duplicates and cluttering their sample library with them.

I have HALion 6 but I find myself going back to Sonic Reality's SampleTank 2.x sounds again and again, because they often strike the best balance between real, pure and clean, and although I mostly want the "real", this baseline also gives me nice degree of freedom in processing the sound to any other direction without dedicating half of the processing chain to carving out a pragmatic base timbre and then restoring and re-restoring it by means of filtering and saturation/distortion along the way, like I often found myself doing when using "hyperrealistic" (i.e. overprocessed) sounds as the base.

YMMV of course, but in my case these "ancient" samples still beat the higher-fidelity alternatives as the working material of choice, and at these prices Sonic Reality's sound packs have been insanely good bang for buck.

 

P.s. You can use the free SampleTank 3 Custom Shop version to import these SampleTank 2 samples, and save them as SampleTank 3 packs, which you can then import into SampleTank 4. Works like a charm here.

Edited September 23, 2019 by sarine

[kitekrazy]

 If you have Reason the refills are $5.  I usually buy those instead.

[Sidney Earl Goodroe]

I have downloaded the symphony strings 2 and really having a hard time installing!!!

Anyone know the trick?

I tried dragging the folder into the instruments folder in ST3. Relisted and ST3 sees the folder but when I click on an instrument folder nothing happens!!

Went back to the drawing board and tried importing. Now it shows the instruments but says could not load sample!! Checked the ST3 samples folder and there is no symphony strings 2 sample folder.

Any ideas??

[cclarry]

44 minutes ago, Sidney Earl Goodroe said:

I have downloaded the symphony strings 2 and really having a hard time installing!!!

Anyone know the trick?

I tried dragging the folder into the instruments folder in ST3. Relisted and ST3 sees the folder but when I click on an instrument folder nothing happens!!

Went back to the drawing board and tried importing. Now it shows the instruments but says could not load sample!! Checked the ST3 samples folder and there is no symphony strings 2 sample folder.

Any ideas??

I see you did do the import.  Odd that it's not seeing the files...

Edited September 23, 2019 by cclarry

[Mánibranðr Studios]

10 hours ago, Sidney Earl Goodroe said:

I have downloaded the symphony strings 2 and really having a hard time installing!!!

Anyone know the trick?

I tried dragging the folder into the instruments folder in ST3. Relisted and ST3 sees the folder but when I click on an instrument folder nothing happens!!

Went back to the drawing board and tried importing. Now it shows the instruments but says could not load sample!! Checked the ST3 samples folder and there is no symphony strings 2 sample folder.

Any ideas??

I think you may need to start with the pack outside of the Sample Tank 3 folder, likely while installing to ST2 first, and then do the import on ST3 and select the folder from within ST2.

I did just that with the World Instruments collection with no issues.

[Sidney Earl Goodroe]

I don't have ST2. I was told that ST3 would load ST2 instruments. I imported an old version of Miroslav Orchestra way back when 3 came out and had no issues whatsoever. Symphony Strings 2 is just not happening.

[cclarry]

1 minute ago, Sidney Earl Goodroe said:

I don't have ST2. I was told that ST3 would load ST2 instruments. I imported an old version of Miroslav Orchestra way back when 3 came out and had no issues whatsoever. Symphony Strings 2 is just not happening.

I don't think he was referring to ST 2 per se, Sid, he's saying you need to install to a folder outside of 
ST3 and THEN import them, and ST3 should import them to it's own "imported Sounds" location.

[Sidney Earl Goodroe]

Thanks, Larry but that is what I did when trying to import in to 3!! The post says while installing to ST2. I was just clarifying that I don't have ver. 2.

Edited September 24, 2019 by Sidney Earl Goodroe

[Mánibranðr Studios]

*she

I'm a lass :3

Also, IIRC, you can get the free version of ST2 from your account and it's worth installing for the free library included, and to compare how it sounds in the native engine and when imported to ST3/ST4

Edited September 24, 2019 by Freyja Grimaude-Valens

[Fleer]

No (free) version of ST2 here, goddess of love, only ST3 and ST4. The way I see it, ST3 should be able to import all ST2 libs (like Sonik Synth) and that would get them into ST4. 

[Mánibranðr Studios]

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

No (free) version of ST2 here, goddess of love, only ST3 and ST4. The way I see it, ST3 should be able to import all ST2 libs (like Sonik Synth) and that would get them into ST4. 

That's unfortunate. I guess they're no longer offering it, since I registered it years ago.

[kitekrazy]

Maybe esoundz support can help. This was one of the few 3rd party ST developers.  I do believe he also goes by squid on KVR forums.

[Grem]

On 9/23/2019 at 1:53 PM, sarine said:

P.s. You can use the free SampleTank 3 Custom Shop version to import these SampleTank 2 samples, and save them as SampleTank 3 packs, which you can then import into SampleTank 4. Works like a charm here.

This is exactly what I was going to ask you!!

 

Thanks for the info.