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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Nov 2002
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    Virtual Instruments vs Plug-ins...

    ...what's the difference? For example, what's the difference between a "virtual instrument" and the samples offered on Sampletank? Thanks.

    Tom

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Location
    Fort Wayne
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    There is a relatively short answer to your question, however, in the interest of teaching to fish (rather than just giving the fish) I will direct you here, since I assume others will offer up the short answers.

    http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/vi...trument-guide/

    Read the articles from Nick Batzdorf and Craig Anderton. It won't take long, and a lot of other potential questions may get answered along the way.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Ft Wayne, IN
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    Ditto what DAS said!

    SampleTank is both a virtual instrument and a plug-in! Not all virtual instruments are plug-ins (Reason is an example of this, since it runs stand alone or rewired to another program, but never as a VSTi, RTAS, or other format plug-in...) On the flip side, not all plug-ins are virtual instruments, (obvious examples of this would be reverbs, EQs, and other such effects.)

    So vitual instruments would simply be software programs that create sound and behave in a similar fashion to what we consider instruments... this includes virtual drummers such as BFD and Groove Agent, drum samplers such as Battery, sound modules such as Sampletank2, and on and on and on...
    Jeff Hollman

    Jeff_Hollman@Sweetwater.com
    800-222-4700 x1285

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