The Browser, for example, now features tag filtering (Style, Timbre, etc), as well as details of each sound, including effects and Macro assignments and the Part Edit window is a night-and-day improvement, with graphical representation and editing of envelopes, LFOs and filter response curves, amongst other tweaks. Hard disk streaming is now supported, too, for faster loading, but ST4 is fully backward compatible with older versions, as well as IK’s other libraries: Syntronik and Miroslav Philharmonik 2. IK has had a good stab at making SampleTank feel more ‘synth-like’ with the addition of a full-on Modulation Matrix, expanding exponentially on the established hardwired mod routings. Up to 32 assignments can be made for each Instrument, drawing on all available internal sources (LFOs, envelopes and Macros), as well as external MIDI streams and CCs, and targeting all meaningful Zone and Element parameters, complete with ‘via’ modifiers. In the processing and mixing departments, 13 new effects have been added, bringing the total to 70. They’re all built on IK’s proven T-RackS and AmpliTube technology and thus sound superb, and you can now view, adjust and assign Macros to all five of an Instrument’s modules together in a gorgeous new lunchbox rack-style interface (but not the Send or Master effects, oddly, which can still only be accessed via the Mixer page). On the performance side of things, four new ‘Players’ open up various avenues of MIDI and audio manipulation, and are catered for in Live Mode by the addition of a Tempo field for each Multi.
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