IK Multimedia iRig Pads MIDI Groove Controller

SampleTank CS

***NEW AVAILABLE INSTRUMENT COLLECTIONS: ART DECO PIANO, NANOTUBE AND ELEKTRONIKA – MINIMAL***

SampleTank 2 for iOS is a professional, fully featured mobile sound and groove workstation that brings the sound, power and features of desktop virtual instruments to your iPad and iPhone — without compromise. It is designed for professional live performance, song composition and puts a comprehe nsive array of world-class instruments, sounds and patterns right at your fingertips.

SampleTank 2 for iOS is 64-bit compatible and works with the latest iPad and iPhone models while supporting older 32-bit* iOS devices as well.

SampleTank 2 gives you 8 multitimbral instrument slots that you can easily layer or split. Choose from a comprehensive, expandable sound collection that covers virtually every acoustic and electronic sound imaginable. Plus, each instrument category includes instrument riffs and grooves so you can start composing and playing in no time.

The included instruments and the new sound engine are derived from the desktop version of SampleTank, IK's flagship workstation, offering you unmatched realism, variety of sound and audio performance. For the first time on iOS, thousands of professional sample-based sounds and patterns can be easily accessed, layered and used for playing live or in the studio. Now you can make music anywhere and anytime inspiration hits you.

SampleTank 2 comes with over 140 instruments and 1,000 patterns including pianos, electric pianos, synths, organs, drums, basses, guitars, strings, brass, woodwinds, voices, ethnic instruments, percussion and sound FX.

What’s more, three new instrument collections have been added to the ever growing library of sounds and are available via in-app purchase:

• Art Deco Piano — One of the most visually and sonically striking pianos of all time.

• NanoTube — Astounding glitched-out loops, trippy and intricate patterns, howling organic growls and gritty percussion

• Elektronica Chillout — Chunky house beats, spacious atmospherics, funky bass grooves and twisted synth lines.

This brings the total universe of SampleTank 2 for iOS sounds to over 2,300 instruments and over 1,200 MIDI patterns — the largest collection of sounds available for any virtual instrument for iOS.

Features:
• 8-part multitimbral professional quality sound and groove module
• Expandable sound library with 2300+ instrument
• Over 1,200 melodic and rhythmic patterns
• 8-track MIDI recorder with audio export
• Totally redesigned intuitive interface
• New sound engine derived from SampleTank 3 for Mac/PC
• Zones feature lets you easily create splits & layers on your controller
• Song and Live environments for composing and playing
• Built-in insert effects and master reverb
• MIDI learn feature makes programming external controllers easy
• Plug-and-play compatibility with iRig interfaces and controller
• Polyphony: up to 64 voices on new Apple devices
• Compatible with iPad and iPhone with iOS 8 and late

*SampleTank 2 for iOS remains compatible with older iOS devices, offering the 8-part and Live mode features (excluding iPhone 4S which only supports 4 instrument parts). iPad 4, iPad Mini2, iPhone 5 and iPod touch 6th gen and later are all compatible with the newer instrument libraries. … More(Read full review)