I would only begrudgingly use the old instruments by firing up Cubase 8.5 and then bouncing down to audio, but it is kind of a downer after investing so many days in downloading (slow internet here) all the sounds and maybe getting excited at finding playable instruments quickly. It seems IK Multimedia is currently only interested in selling (apple based) hardware and doesn't put any effort whatsoever in development / improving their plugins? If there is no active development on Virtual Instruments then I would really like to know and rather move on and cut my losses to future prove my projects. There is a reason why the GUIs of programs like SampleTron looked different and lived as separate VSTis in a given song.

Reasons: The import into ST3 is a very unfriendly and convoluted process. The current option of using ST3 for these is not an acceptablee solution.

PraiseTracks.Now that Cubase 9 has landed and finally blacklisted all my IK Multimedia instruments (including SampleMook, SampleTron, Sonik Synth, Philharmonik), I think it is about time for IK Multimedia of seriously considering porting their instruments to 64 bits. As I mention in the video I believe SampleTank 4 has so much potential and as we progress in finding the outlying performance and crash issues I think it will mature into an even more amazing instrument. Using the standalone version I put a short demonstration together to share my preliminary results. So now when I try loading consecutive patches in and out (especially the large piano presets) I am no longer getting the crashes and vanishing plugin as before. I tried different combinations of the settings and found my best experience happened when both were set to LARGE. With the introduction of the 4.03 update there is a new STREAMING tab in settings that allow you to adjust some memory and performance parameters. So I have been doing some more experimenting with SampleTank 4.03 trying to narrow down what might be the source of the crashing I have been experiencing.

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