SampleTank® 2 XL includes all the sounds you'll need to create professional music tracks: • 16 parts multitimbral plug-in sound workstation with layerable parts. • 3 synth engines: new STRETCH™, Pitch-shift/Time-stretch, Resampling. • 32 built-in DSP effects, 5 effects per part. • Loop sync and time/ pitch manipulation. • Import WAV, AIFF, SDII, AKAI®, SampleCell® plus native sounds. • 8 CDs of sounds, 4.5 GB of samples and more than 1.500 patches included. SampleTank® 2 allows you to use loops as an instrument with unlimited expression. SampleTank® 2 is the ultimate sample workstation. For the first time in a sample-based instrument, 3 synth engines can be switched on the fly to provide more sound flexibility than ever before: traditional Resampling (the conventional method of playback most samplers use), Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch and our all new STRETCH™ engine. STRETCH™ (Sampletank® Time REsynthesis TeCHnology) gives complete sonic control over the tempo, pitch and harmonics of samples. No more "chipmunk sounding" transposition, no more loops and phrases out of sync, no more limitations in musical expression.