SampleTank Reviews – Page 6
3/5 rating based on 55 reviews. Read all reviews for SampleTank for iPhone.
SampleTank is paid iOS app published by IK Multimedia US, LLC
Midi Problem.
U.K. an
Hi, seems no function upon changing midi channel, seems to be always in Omni. Thank you.
Make it an Audio Unit
Strizbiz
This app is getting trashed , when it actually a good app, but I’m sure if it were updated to be an Audio Unit it would get a lot better reviews. Personally I really barely use it at all anymore, even though I’ve sank a pretty decent amount of money into it buying in app purchases. I stopped buying them though because unless it becomes an Audio Unit, it’s eventually going to get deleted from my IPad.
Tragic
Macrofone
Feels kind of tragic to me. All I wanted was an iOS version of what we used to call a ROMpler—a solid collection of instrument samples in all the major categories, and this really could be a good one. I have an extensive collection of IK and third party SampleTank sounds on my computer and find they are pretty darn good. I feel the starter sound set here is a bit scant and the additional ones quite expensive for an app that does support AU—I would feel differently about the pricing in there were AU support. I knew going in that it didn’t support AU, but I thought perhaps I could use IAA or the onboard sequencer to get some work done and then export audio to my iOS DAW of choice, but this sequencer is a scratch pad at very best. Only records in 4/4, and you can only delete entire parts, not sections of a part.No MIDI editing. So it is a non-starter. Tried using it as a plugin in Beatmaker and it was a disaster. If you are going to try to lock your users into your sequencer it should be a thoughtful competitive one, I would think. IK, there is a big gaping need for a ROMpler sound collection, and yours could be it, but it is not. Until such time as this is as AU, it was a waste of my money and drive space.
Sounds great...but....
Richard onFIRE
This app has a lot of great sounds and features. I was surprised that you can do quite complicated layers and splits, which is awesome. It's so close to being great. However... The "multis" have a lot of issues which essentially make this app unusable for live shows. Reordering is wonky - it swaps the positions instead of moving the item. Also, opening multis from other phones will prevent them from being re ordered at all. And the default order isn't even alphabetical - it appears random. If the ordering of multis were fixed I would give this app a 5/5 rather than 1/5.