IK Multimedia's Total VI MAX: a giant well-done instrument suite for $49

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If it weren’t for lack of Kontakt I’d otherwise call this a poor person’s Komplete. I bought Komplete 15 regular lately, and while it’s slated to be the main use of the MIDI outs of MG2/3, fact is one of three computers doesn’t work properly and I’ve still got to troubleshoot.

Still, Sampletank has an editor you can make basic sample patches.
Without further ado, I’m hawking someone else’s product here:

There’s so many goodies in there but for me the icing on the cake is a Hammond (by name) organ VSTi, but a rainy afternoon rendering MIDIs through Sampletron (many Mellotron’s) sounds fun.
I also learned for some reason, installing Philharmonik 2 from this suite was painless compared to having a Philharmonik 2 I’d bought lately at $29 I think. Call it Angel’s share.

I’m not a shill and this 357 GB download may take a while. I’m at a motel and using two computers to download still took a long stretch.

I haven’t used it enough to vouch for it but I’ve made 5 copies of the whole works and now it’s time to cherry pick what instruments sound ideal for a guitar-based (methodology?).

The sale goes a while too so … I love win-win situations, and this is one of them. For some.

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I bit. I already had Sampletank and Miroslav, but the Hammond, Mellotron, Modo Drum and Bass, and all the extra goodies made this a no-brainer. Silly price for good quality instruments.

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And like you said, that Hammond… another thing worth mentioning, is you know the Groove3 online tutorials have several IK Multimedia tutorials including most of this massive sound farm. I subscribe online but there’s a generous free trial you could watch all the tutorials easily.

So maybe this is a good place to mention this, but note to self: as my playing originates from a guitar, I’m wondering if any (physical, floor mounted) Expression pedal out there has any significant advantages when going from growl to roar on the Hammond?

Electro Harmonix makes a couple expression pedals that I’m considering but maybe you know something or even such thing as wireless expression pedal…

update too, it’s all installed - i see lot of good indicators with IK Multimedia stuff now, and you can merely unZip all the files telling WinRAR to Extract here and they’re basically all in the right place…