Sonik Synth 2 is the ultimate synth workstation, with over 5,000 sounds and 8GB of sounds to work with.
strong>A synth workstation on steroids. This complete songwriting, producing, and arranging super tool has a wide range of audio samples with high quality vintage, modern, and futuristic synth and instrument sounds combined into one package. It includes an incredible audio sample 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.
Sonik Synth 2 has sampled flavors of every type of synthesis including analog, digital, FM, physical modeling, wavetable, granular, additive, resynthesis, and more. It also contains a virtual museum of vintage keyboards, covering a wide palette of synth flavors including the fat analog sound of Arps, Moogs, Obies, Jupiters, Gleeman, Voyetra, Serge, EMS Synthi, Prophets, Trons, Rhodes, Wurlies, and B3s.
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 give you millions of sonic possibilities. You can combine 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.
This must-have tool has sounds that transcend across all styles of music including the latest dance trends, hip-hop, R&B, classic rock, jazz, soundtracks, etc., all with an intuitive audio interface that is easy to use right out of the box.
Its built-in search engine has images of the instruments and an incredibly efficient design for keeping the creative flow going. Thousands of inspiring sounds are only a click away. It also has topnotch IK Multimedia synth workstation features like 16 multitimbral and layerable parts, 3 synth engines (including STRETCH), 32 built-in analog modeled DSP effects with BPM sync, and more.
Sonik Synth 2 works as a plug-in for every major platform 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.
It can be used to expand SampleTank 2 sounds and is also compatible with the powerful SampleTank 2 sample workstation environment.
IK Multimedia Sonik Synth 2 Virtual Instrument Features:
Compared to other products in this price range, this product gets 5's accross the board. If you are looking for a starter Soft Synth that won't break the bank and still deliver awesome sounds, this is it. The sounds are excellent and the interface is easy to use. I am using it in FL Studio with zero problems.
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A Good Deal
Posted by nomuse from San Francisco Bay Area on Sep 16, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Live theater sound engineer and designer.
Reviewer's Play Style: Eclectic, as the job requires
This is a basic sampler engine. On the plus side, it ran fine in Cubase SE and installed with almost no trouble. On the minus side, display is squinty with small type, and MIDI automation beyond pan and volume is either non-existent or non-intuitive to get at.
The included library is oddly eclectic. Again on the plus side, there is much bread-and-butter here (though not quite enough to make this a stand-alone source of sounds, particularly not for orchestral or jazz genres), and a nice collection of unusual sounds. On the minus, particularly in the acoustic instruments (and very much so in the vocal patches) the selections are marred by far too few samples. Here, too, the weaknesses of either the player or the programming shows in too little of the layering, tonal and inflection changes needed to properly simulate an acoustic instrument.
The most intriguing part of the included library is the incredible museum of synths featured; Arps, Mellotrons, Micro-Moogs, and so on. It's a stroll down memory lane. My major complaint here is an oft-repeated one about synth and sampler libraries. To wit, patch naming. It is very difficult to describe a sound in a name. At best, you can refer to a musician or song in the patch name ("Once Upon a Time in the Harmonica"); at worst, you leave only a meaningless play on words ("Harmonica Lewinsky"). To someone like me with a familiarity with at least some real instruments, the most descriptive name is not "Woodwind of the Marsh," it is "Cor anglais in F." I know what an English Horn should sound like, and with a patch name like that I can find it and know how to use it. With the former, one is forced to load and audition patch after patch, trying to remember strings of fanciful names in hopes of getting back to the second-best selection when the first-best never appears.
But this is not a fair criticism of this library. We have here, a thin collection of orchestral instruments, a great collection of vintage synths, a truly great collection of wonderfully inspiring and playable keyboards, from suitcase Rhodes to FM electric piano to clavinet to B3, a good basic set of guitar and bass (acoustic and electric), solid drums both traditional and electronic, a nice variety of pitched percussion, and a smattering of obscure "ethnic" instruments that are thinly constructed but still quite playable -- shakuhachi, dukduk, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, and quite a few more.
To sum up, it's a good filler-outer of your virtual instrument collection, and has just enough to solo with. More than anything, though, I'd wish for more information, more pictures and history, of those great synths that were sampled for this -- and a patch naming scheme that brought that history more to the fore.
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Posted by Jay Rhodes from Hope, Arkansas (birthplace of Bill Clinton) on May 20, 2005
Experience w/product: I have heard about it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician, home recording
Reviewer's Play Style: blues, gospel, r&b, hip hop, jazz.... anything.
On the ratings, i put average for everything because i have not played it yet. but i plan on purchasing one of these in the near future. When i first saw on the website i though, "hmmmm... thats gotta be at least $3,000 but then i saw the price. I bought the new casio wk3500 and if this board can top that its gotta be off the charts because the 3500 was the top selling board for 2003 and 2004. Like I said i'm gonna purchase one in the near future.
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