
It represents the ultimate resource for producers and musicians who are looking to incorporate the iconic London drum sound in their productions, and covers a massive range of rock, pop and indie styles. The IK Multimedia London Grooves instrument collection for SampleTank brings you two of the best: Jason Cooper, drummer for The Cure and David Bowie and Jeremy Stacey, who has recorded for hundreds of artists like King Crimson, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Ryan Adams, Roger Daltrey, Sheryl Crow, Tom Jones, etc.Ĭreated by multiple GRAMMY award winning engineer/producer Cameron Craig and made in collaboration with Filippo Gaetani of Ray Recordings, London Grooves offers more than 1500 high-quality WAV files, 1200 ready-to-mix drum stems, and 300 stereo grooves, all recorded in legendary London studios The Pool and Narcissus Studios. Your drum tracks are only as good as the drummer behind the kit.

Performance is generally good, but combining large sample instruments can cause trouble.įor an all-round multitimbral software instrument, I think SampleTank 4 is a great choice. There is a lot of great sounds to discover here.Ĭrashes are rare, but can occur when switching too quickly between instruments based on large samples. Very powerful and flexible stuff.Īs for the sounds, highlights include strings, pianos, EP’s, organs, wood winds, vocals and synths. I have also bought Syntronik by IK Multimedia, as these sounds can be loaded and played in ST4. ST4 can run as a stand alone application, so there is no need for a VSTi host, which makes it even easier to run. The synth workstation-like interface, makes it very easy to set up sounds, combine them in all kinds of splits and layers and switch between them using MIDI program changes from my keyboards. That is, as a multitimbral instrument that provides additional sounds to my hardware keyboards.

I am using ST4 very much as a rack synth. For me, SampleTank 4 has been a great, simple and low risk way to incorporate many more sounds into my live rig.
