


Delightfully unpredictable, Circuit Damage is the perfect collection for creating edgy, vibey synthesizer tracks where grit and chaos adds weight and drama. Circuit Damage contains a beautifully flawed collection of carefully curated hardware synthesizers in dire need of repair and calibration.100 Instrument Presets, 4 GB of sound content. Also included are bonus leads and bass presets ready to add further depth and breadth to your music. Alien Harbours delivers a cinematic collection of atmospheres, pads and sweeps created using elaborate full patch samples from the Oberheim Matrix12, Sequential Prophet-VS and Prophet-5, Waldorf Microwave I Rev A, Korg DW-8000 and Alesis Andromeda.The sound libraries work with all versions of SampleTank 4, including free SampleTank 4 CS. The collection features five libraries – Alien Harbours, Circuit Damage, Ring of Doom, Swarm and Vector Vision – that offer over 10 GB of deeply sampled original instruments and 533 presets. SampleTank 4 CS is available now for MacOS or Windows and runs standalone or as a VST/AU plugin.IK Multimedia have introduced Mojo Synthesis, a collection of SampleTank sound libraries, created by synthesist and sound designer Erik Norlander using his large collection of vintage analog instruments, that are based on advanced and experimental techniques. It also supports library from Miroslav and Syntronik. You can buy expansions individually or upgrade to bigger versions of SampleTank 4. They currently have over 260GB of sounds you can add to your Custom Shop. Most surprisingly is that you get the full mixer including 70 effects which I’d have expected to be an optional upgrade. The interface has the full power of SampleTank 4 with the new browser, disk streaming and the “Groove Players” that help animate you sounds. For grooves and percussion it also comes with 200 MIDI grooves ready to go. The content covers 16 different categories of sound covering all the usual basics and so there’s bound to be something useful in there. And it’s also new content that’s not been available in the retail version. On the one hand it’s genius marketing but on the other you get 50 instruments and 4GB of sound content for nothing. You get a decent selection of content for free and then they tempt you into buying expansions which you can do directly within the interface. It works in the same way as the Amplitude and T-Racks Custom Shop editions.
