looks like there is a shopping cart in the upper right corner? I wonder what that could be for...

Move over Kontakt and sample The Tank!!!
 
Features

• Over 30GB of sound content and 2,000 instruments
• Over 800 recycled loops and 1,000 MIDI files for drums, percussion, and basses
• Complete redesigned new interface with 3 main environments
• 16 channels multi-part Play interface with quick mixer and easy layering
• Sound browser with keyword searches and integrated MIDI player/mixer
• All-in-one sound Edit page with 3 sample engines (including formant preserving pitch-shift/time-stretch)
• 14 filter types, round robin and articulations plus 8 macro per sounds for quick multi-parameters editing
• Multichannel mixer-like audio Mix interface, with up to 30 effects per channel
• Integrated multi-effects with over 50 high-quality effects
• 20 effects derived from top of the range AmpliTube and T-RackS analog modeled algorithms
• New Map interface, freely associate any Multi layered sound to any MIDI program change for immediate recall during live performances
• Accurate 3D representations of instruments for instant identification and recall
• Avaiable as standalone and as 64 bit plug-in for AAX, VST and AU platforms on MacOS and Windows

 

Mesh
Move over Kontakt and sample The Tank!!!
 

I don't think NI will be losing much sleep if they read that list. Mind you I think ST3 and Kontakt are aiming at different / complimentary markets.

Mesh
Move over Kontakt and sample The Tank!!!
 
Features

• Over 30GB of sound content and 2,000 instruments
• Over 800 recycled loops and 1,000 MIDI files for drums, percussion, and basses
• Complete redesigned new interface with 3 main environments
• 16 channels multi-part Play interface with quick mixer and easy layering
• Sound browser with keyword searches and integrated MIDI player/mixer
• All-in-one sound Edit page with 3 sample engines (including formant preserving pitch-shift/time-stretch)
• 14 filter types, round robin and articulations plus 8 macro per sounds for quick multi-parameters editing
• Multichannel mixer-like audio Mix interface, with up to 30 effects per channel
• Integrated multi-effects with over 50 high-quality effects
• 20 effects derived from top of the range AmpliTube and T-RackS analog modeled algorithms
• New Map interface, freely associate any Multi layered sound to any MIDI program change for immediate recall during live performances
• Accurate 3D representations of instruments for instant identification and recall
• Avaiable as standalone and as 64 bit plug-in for AAX, VST and AU platforms on MacOS and Windows

 

That list is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2011.

The GUI is a definite improvement over ST 2.5.

Too knobby?

HUGE Pass....
 
EWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

Yes...be sure to buy SampleTank 3 at TWICE the price of 2.5....

yorolpal
Too knobby?

cclarry
Yes...be sure to buy SampleTank 3 at TWICE the price of 2.5....

Knobs is expenzive

SmokeyJ628

bapu
Oh, I see it looks like that in only one of the views.
 

The one with all of the colors shows where different samples are mapped.  You can get the same view with by pressing the "Zone" button on Sampletank 2.
 
EDIT:  At least, that is my educated guess.  I have no inside info.

 I do! I'm staying out of most of these threads, but since info has leaked I'll clear up what I can according to what is available. (Meaning there is still more info that hasn't been leaked about SampleTank 3...)
 
The current price is 60% of what SampleTank 2 cost back in 2003 when it was first released. Some of you have mentioned the shopping cart, nothing about it currently, but most of your guesses are correct except it'll be more than just us.....
 
The FX, goodness the effects are killer. They are the exact same ones you'll find in T-Racks and AmpliTube. So, yes that is the Black 76, the White 2A and the Program EQ.
 
1 last point, I'm usually the guy handling the Twitface and it wasn't entirely iRing. :/