

The widest variety of sounds in all instrument categoriesYou're one click away from tons of Acoustic Grand Pianos, Electric Pianos, Strings, Brass, Winds, Vocals, Orchestral sounds, Organs, Percussion, Drums, Basses, Guitars, Synths, Loops, Ethnic samples and more. SampleTank 2.5 XL comes with 2 DVDs and over 1,800 sounds (for over 6.5 GB of samples) plus an extra bonus sound disk. With an exclusive combination of features and sounds, SampleTank stands apart from any other sample-based virtual instrument, as one of the most powerful and easy-to-use solutions for making fully produced songs out of the box. Probably ST is more to be blamed than Ableton, I think there's something 'obscure' involved.SampleTank is the ultimate sample workstation. But one should not be changing platform for that. Now that I own a Mac I have experienced ST on this platform and I have to say that they seem to work together better than on XP. VSTi bring in problems it seems.I'm looking to my external gear.once again. This means that they up to something but IK is not willing to collaborate. The Abes on the other side had given me some suggestion and the crash frequency lowered. Mail after mail I am sure of one thing : IK Support SUCKS!

I got the same not response style since I own both, April this year. What is very sad for me, nobody try to help me from IKM (1 month) and nobody from Ableton (16 months)

Last time (in verision 5) I promised myself I will never bye next live and change for Cubase but finaly I bought Live 6 after all and have the same troubles as before in version 5. Instead of flowless work on my projects and professional results I got 2-3 crashes per hour. Both of them support VST/VSTi but do not work together. I have bought IK Multimedia Total Effect Bundle for a lot of money and of course I own Live 6 (also Live4, 5, Operator and Sampler) for a lot of money. Not just because of this crash, but because of the absolute non-responsiveness from both company's support. I know that in the short term, I'm not going to bother upgrading to Live 6.x AND I'm never buying anything from IK Multimedia either. Then I used EMU X 'synthswipe' to sample the 2.0 format ones i needed. I used Extreme Sample convertor to convert all the 1.1 format samples from the XL library into EMU X format. The crashes also crashed the entire audio system and I would have to reboot. Dkcalifornia wrote:At this point, I just stopped trying to use SampleTank with Live.
