by SenecaReader2 » Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:09 pm
lovaspillando, sorry to hear that! My experience has been painless for the most part, which frankly I wasn't expecting. I always hated computers, but since I got a 2017 Imac, everything is changing for me.
I was having a strange problem with the connection too, it seemed that after a certain amounts of downloaded samples, the connection would drop, I had to force quit Download Manager and I too had to restart the computer, but it only happened a few times and everytime I would restard Download Manager, it would painlessly pick up again. The only problem I encountered was the occasional connection drop. If I resterted Download Manager without restarting the computer, DM would say that it cannot connect, but I don't remember if I tried the internet to see if it was really the connection, or a problem with DM.
My suggestion would be to use Download Manager only. Unfortunately this type of product is huge and yeah, normally I would not have attempted it, but the special offer I could not turn down.
If it can be of any comfort, I had bought Kontakt two days earlier, along with various synths, all on special offer too. But I say without shadow of a doubt that for me Sampletank blows Kontakt out of the water, as a rock, metal, pop, jazz and blues musician Sampletank is exactly what I wanted: a huge collection of sounds of all types, for all styles. Kontakt is very good but ST blows it out of the window.....acoustic pianos are rubbish compared to ST, and the latter has a much more effective search. It's a powerful, high quality, huge "meat and potato sounds" monster that cannot fail to impress. As soon as I needed a synth pad, I had hundreds at my disposal, one prettier than the other.
And this said by someone who, some years ago, spent several hundreds on Eastwest libraries. Sampletank is like the Goliath library I had, but with 4 times the sounds and 10 times better software. Goliath had a ridiculously simplistic editing. I don't do much editing but none at all is no good either. I resold all the software for a sixth of what I paid, that's how much I didn't care for it.
Man, I love Sampletank. Like Peter said elsewhere, the patience will pay off. In my view, it kills everything else out there. In a magazine review, the reviewer said that the orchestral sounds did not have keyswitches but that IK said they would be implemented in an update. I am pleased to note that many of the sounds already have keyswitches, like the Eastwest libraries I had. As a musician who has no time to waste fiddling with "building creating sounds", what I love about Sampletank is that as soon as I need a sound, I can find a great one in no time. That's exactly what I wanted in a sound module.
Hope it all works out soon for you, Sampletank is amazing, definitely I am a fan now. I'd keep trying the download manager, sorry to hear about your experience, hope you get it sorted soon. Don't know if I have just been lucky, but I immediately cloned the whole drive, I definitely don't want to reinstall 100 gb of sounds, even if things went quite smoothly for me it took a couple of days. My connection worked at about 1-3mb per second.
