IK Multimedia Sonik Synth (Macintosh and Windows)

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"Good lord!"

Feature:
It included exactly what you need, 8 gb of instruments, 5000+ patches is all the features I need!

Quality:
This thing is the best money I have spent since I started building my studio. it's hard to beat 256 note of poly. in a synth plug-in!

Value:
It isn't even expensive considering the fantom, (which I have is over a thousand bucks) and has 4 times as many sounds! I still love my fantom though, it they compliment each other well

Desirability:
This tool is one of the most inspirational I have used in a LONG time! I've had to use it on FL studio while I wait for the Intel Mac patch to be released and I have made some of the best beats I've ever made just in the few days I've had it!!

Sound:
I have to admit, I'm in love!! digging through sounds to find the right one is a very small price to pay for such a kick @ss plug in!! first off, the orchestra sound are unbelivable, the nuances areincredible in their detail. you can hear the vibrato and bow strokes!! love it!! the electronic sounds are cool, though you have to sift thru them as alot of them are quite basic and similar sounding, however you can stack 16 instruments, so if you can find a sound you want for that particular beat, you can make it!!!

Ease of Use:
plug it in a start playing, as simple as that. obviously if your buying it, you probably have plug in experience already, and thats all you need.

Support:
haven't been able to use yet.

Overall:
This product is worth every penny if not more! it's awesome, I produce hip hop beats and if you have a creative mind this thing will blow you away!

Submitted: 4/8/2007

Style of Music: Hip-hop


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* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Great when combined with SampleTank - enough stock sounds to make hot beats..."

Feature:
I'm pretty happy with the features. I have Halion as my main sampler, and I gotta be honest, I can't figure out how to make the most out of it! It's just too complex...But sampletank and sonik synth do a good job of being easy to use and create new presets/sounds.

Quality:
No complaints here

Value:
It is a bit expensive, but like I said, I can't think of too many products that give you SOO many sounds for this price range...Certainly alot will not be useful, but many are.

Sound:
The sounds are obviously geared towards the synth/electronic side, but you can still come up with some REALLY useful sounds for any genre (I produce Hip Hop). While something like this can't compete with a keyboard, it definately has so many useable sounds that I don't think any other product comes close to it.

Support:
Haven't needed.

Submitted: 10/28/2005


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Sonik Synth 2 is the ultimate synth workstation, with more synth and workstation instrument sound than any other comparable hardware or software. Over 5,000 sounds and 8.0 gigabytes make up the largest collection of modern and vintage instruments ever assembled in one product.

A synth workstation on steroids. A complete songwriting, producing and arranging super tool with the widest range of high quality vintage, modern and futuristic synth and instrument sounds ever combined into one package!

Includes an incredible workstation sound set of important compositional tools such as rich evolving motion synths, pads, leads, basses, electronic drums, percussion, and FX; as well as pianos, organs, guitars, drum kits and beats, orchestral instruments, human voices, ethnic instruments and more. Sonik Synth 2 also features an astounding 152 MB, 3 dynamics, grand piano and other first call high performance instruments.

Sampled flavors of every type of synthesis including analog, digital, FM, physical modeling, wavetable, granular, additive, resynthesis and more.

Includes a virtual museum of vintage keyboards inside, covering the widest palette of synth flavors ever assembled into one product. Experience the fat analog sound of Arps, Moogs, Obies, Jupiters, Gleeman, Voyetra, Serge, EMS Synthi, Prophets, Trons, Rhodes, Wurlies, B3s all in one mega plug-in.

Many times the sonic power of the most expensive hardware workstations on the market, all for a fraction of the price. Sonik Synth 2 has a massive selection of ready to play presets including both Combis and Single patches. Over 5,000 sounds and 8 gigabytes of samples on 2 DVDs.

Millions of sonic possibilities by combining thousands of diverse sound elements collected over many years by Sonic Reality and an incredible array of integrated DSP effects featuring IK's award-winning AmpliTube and T-RackS, vintage phasers, flangers, chorus, delays, bitcrushers, analog filters and more.

A must have tool for every style of music. Sonik Synth 2 has sounds that transcend across more styles of music than any other virtual instrument plug-in including the latest dance trends, hip hop, R&B, classic rock, jazz, soundtracks and more all with an intuitive interface that is easy to use right out of the box!

A built-in search engine with images of the instruments and an incredibly efficient design for keeping the creative flow going. Thousands of inspiring sounds are only a click away!

Top-notch synth workstation features like 16 multi-timbral and layerable parts, 3 synth engines including STRETCH, 32 built-in analog modeled DSP effects with BPM sync and more.

Works as a plug-in for every major platform on Mac and PC allowing users to integrate this powerful sound source into the sequencing environment of their choice, such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer, Sonar and more.

Can be used to expand SampleTank 2 sounds. Sonik Synth 2 sounds are also compatible with the powerful SampleTank 2 sample workstation environment.

Features
16 part multi-timbral sample-based synth workstation.

Over 5,000 sounds.

8 GB of samples on two DVDs.

Includes 32 analog modeled DSP effects - 5 per instrument.

Multiple synth engines including STRETCH and Pitch-shift/Timestretch.

A complete virtual synth museum inside.

Sounds also compatible with SampleTank 2.

Sound editing with full access to 50 Synth-Sampler engine controls.

Easy to use full MIDI control.

256 notes polyphony.

Sounds
Motion Synths & Pads. Rich, atmospheric synths, phat analog flavors, evolving soundscapes and evocative synth textures like no other synth has offered before.

Synth Bass & Leads. From the classic sounds of vintage monophonic synths such as Arps and Moogs to wild trance leads, deep basses, and much more!

Vintage Keyboards. The most comprehensive offering of vintage synth flavors ever! Including rare keyboards like Serge Modular, Steiner-Parker, Gleeman, Prophet 5, Jupiter, Ob SEM, Arp 2500 & 2600, and Modular Moog.

Acoustic & Electric Pianos. Some of the best quality acoustic and electric pianos, harpsichord and clavs ever assembled. Stunning 152 meg Grand Piano, tack pianos, Rhodes, Wurlies, RMI, Electric Grands and more.

Acoustic/Electric Guitar & Bass. Sonik Synth 2 would not be complete without a great collection of acoustic, electric, and bass guitars; all with a variety of makes and playing styles.

Acoustic Drums & Percussion. GM and I-Map acoustic drum kits with incredible playing realism and dynamic percussion maps featuring Latin, African, Indian, mallets, orchestral percussion, and more.

Electronic Drums & Percussion. An unprecedented array of electronic kits featuring signature beatboxes like 808, 909, CR78, and wacked out vocoded percussion and distorted resynthesized madness!

Ethnic Instruments. A variety of instruments from around the world such as hammered dulcimers, bazoukis, mandolins, exotic wind instruments and many others.

Brass & Winds. Pop horn sections to rich orchestral brass and winds, Sonik Synth 2 offers a great selection of solo and ensemble brass and wind instruments.

Strings & Orchestral Textures. Rich orchestral soundscapes, silky ensemble strings and expressive solo violins, violas, celli and contrabass.

Vocal Textures. An expansive range of vocal pads and choirs featuring some of the world's top singers. From pop to monk choirs to solo female operatic and more.

Special FX. Ranging from vintage synths to the far edge of avant-garde film soundtracks, the special effects in Sonik Synth 2 are out of this world!

Elements. A massive selection of partials to be used as elements in combination patches, including waves of nearly every vintage synth, noise formats, wine glasses, vocal elements, groove elements and much more.

Combi Patches. Sonik Synth 2 uses all of the single patches and elements combined together into MEGA patches called "Combis", allowing piano and orchestra stacks to complex evolving motion pads and more.

Technical Info

System Requirements
iLok compatible

Power PC based Macintosh
Minimal: 866 MHz G4 processor, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Suggested: dual 1.25 GHz G4 or G5 processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Supported Plug-in formats: AU, VST, RTAS.

Intel based Macintosh
Minimal: 1.5 GHz Intel Core Solo processor, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later.

Suggested: 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later.

Supported Plug-in formats: AU, VST, RTAS.

Windows
Minimal: Pentium 1GHz / Athlon XP 1.33 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, Windows XP / Vista or later.

Suggested: Pentium 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 1.33 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Windows XP / Vista or later.

Supported Plug-in formats: VST, RTAS.

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If you are a registered owner of at least ONE IK product (Free versions excluded), you are now eligible to crossgrade to ANY other IK product at the discounted crossgrade price and save big! Both retail and special bundled versions of IK products, such as SampleTank 2 SE, AmpliTube LE and T-RackS EQ, qualify you for the extra savings you receive from the crossgrade prices on full versions of IK products.
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