IK MULTIMEDIA SampleTank 4 MAX €599
When the original SampleTank was released – and this is showing both its and my age – the dream was to do everything previously done in music hardware, in software, on a computer. By this time, around 2001, computers could do pretty much everything, apart from mimic those huge hardware workstations that could produce every instrument sound under the sun.
SampleTank came out and did it. It was the first of a generation, a romping ROMpler capable of emulating any instrument.
Fast-forward nearly two decades and our views on using a computer solely for music production might have changed to re-embrace hardware, but SampleTank is still here and it’s still making a very good case for your cash.
Despite everyone going modular-and-analogue mad, it seems there is still a fabulous case for an all-singing, all-dancing application
