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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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.

Here’s a short YT review if anybody’s interested.

I really hadn’t paid a lot of attention to this plugin, but after watching the video I’m pretty astonished.  $39 seems an unbelievable price for what it does.