Long time user of IK hardware and software. One thing I am really curious about, what does the future hold for Sampletank and IK Instruments? Will we get a v5 and beyond of Sampletank? Because I was really hoping to get Syntronik 3 and Sampletron 3, but those have been discontinued which is really terrible news as both instruments are really awesome.
The only reason I can see those getting sidelined is because Sampletank is gonna be the main instrument moving forward for samples? However…now comes Pianoverse (which is also great) so confused with IKs direction of Instruments to be honest. Will sampletank be the main focus? Or will we get successors to Syntronik and Sampletron as well? Will Pianoverse be discontinued in a few years as well?
Love IK stuff just hope for better long term support! Devs if you read this please bring back Sampletron and Syntronik and keep developing Pianoverse as it sounds amazing!
i have no idea. but syntronic and sampletron are dead. the mysterious killing of the syntronic product line i still can’t get over. my only guess is there were too many bugs and IKM gave up on it.
Care to elaborate (if you can) why Syntronik and Sampletron received the discontinue option vs continued development? Both instruments are actually really really good and Sampletron 2 doesn’t really have competition to be honest outside of GForce Mtron which is way older but still updated and supported (and doesn’t sound as good as Sampletron 2).
From a user perspective 4-6 years is way too short of a life cycle for instruments in my opinion. Constant OS and DAW upgrades, too many variables for bugs. So I’m hesitant to dig into Pianoverse more because of this. What if that becomes a big part of my workflow (the pianos are phenomenal) and it also gets discontinued in a couple of years?
So just curious what the instrument side of IK will look like in the coming years! Sampletank 5? Syntronik 3? Sampletron 3?!