And the synth sounds in Sampletank's stock library are very usable. They sound like there wasn't much time spent on them, I dunno. The stock Kontakt strings aren't impressive to me. I hate trying to play slow attacking strings quickly to a HipHop rhythm, it never works out how I want it. The compressor took care of the attack on the strings perfectly. it's the exact string sound I envisioned for this song. I used their stock string and slapped on the LA2A compressor.

but they give you a slim version that loads in Sampletank.) I just did a recreation of a song I made 5 years ago when I wasn't nearly as good as I am now. They give you some extremely good plugins (not the VST instance unfortunately, they weren't that nice.

Kontakt's stock library isn't all that to me, I think Sampletank has it beat easily in every department. If you're talking just Sampletank 3 vs Kontakt 5. You know, I had a long response written just now, but for some reason I thought you were comparing Sampletank 3 to Komplete, so I had to delete the entire thing!

Sample tank 3 free