On September 3, 2025 at 2:54 pm peter said
Peter, being a marketing manager, isn’t going to be authorized to share information on IK’s plans for SampleTank unless the CEO has authorized it. But there’s no harm in politely asking him. SampleTank has never been a priority for IK. They’ve gone more than 10 years in between major versions (in between…

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Upgrade path is only $24.50.

Nice one, thank you for posting!

On September 3, 2025 at 1:39 pm fretman said
I never got along with ST4 for some reason. Other than that, I find myself usually unimpressed by VIs with all-encompassing content. They have lots of instruments but they’re all shallow. No depth and only good for adding some background/nuanced texture or for sound design. Most of my mixes attempt t…

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Peter, being a marketing manager, isn’t going to be authorized to share information on IK’s plans for SampleTank unless the CEO has authorized it. But there’s no harm in politely asking him. SampleTank has never been a priority for IK. They’ve gone more than 10 years in between major versions (in between 2 and 3).

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I never got along with ST4 for some reason. Other than that, I find myself usually unimpressed by VIs with all-encompassing content. They have lots of instruments but they’re all shallow. No depth and only good for adding some background/nuanced texture or for sound design. Most of my mixes attempt to be realistic and are sparse, so everything is…Read More

On September 3, 2025 at 8:23 am Xandre said
is this the normal sale they have on Cubase around this time of the year, or one to push sales before V15? With a grace period starting the day after the sale ends?

 

You can wait to register the serial when the grace period is announced for V15

With ST hitting the sub-$20 price I wonder what its future is.  Syntronik and Sampletron 2 got the axe some time ago, so I wonder if ST4 is slated for being discontinued as well.  It makes me think IK is moving away from soft-synths and more towards a guitar-focus.  Has peter from IK got anything he could share with us about this?

I picked this up sometime ago and for $29 it’s a good deal.

As an aside, it seems like Waves, the originator of the $29 sale price, has now increased its prices to $35 and companies like Softube continue to carry the $29 banner.  Hopefully the $35 price won’t become the new norm.

Been disappointed with iZotope’s pricing ever since their acquisition. This would cost me $169 to upgrade. I don’t think I need any of the new features.

My MSP upgrade (which also updates me to Neutron 5) is $293.

These just don’t seem worth it to me.