Total Studio Max 4 is here, and whilst it's always been massive, now it's massive, that's a word. Hi folks, I'm Mike, and I hope you're well. Total Studio Max 4 is a huge plug-in bundle from IK Multimedia which includes audio production plugins, virtual instruments, and some great things for guitarists as well. Later on, I'm going to be asking, well, should you buy it if you already own it? Should you upgrade? And also, how does it compare to Complete 14? Now, full disclosure, they did send me this product to try out, but

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at an amazing price to distribute your music. Now, I want to delve into what's included with Total Studio Max 4, as well as what's new. Starting off with the audio production plugins included with the plugins is one of the most impressive plug-in suites around. T-RackS 5 Max version 2. Honestly, this includes some of my favorite plugins which I use in many of my productions. There are EQs, compressors, reverbs, delays, tape emulators, channel strips, and some of them are modeled on absolute classics like the White 2A and Black 76. New to

this collection, we have the Farm Stone Room, a drum room sound made famous by Phil Collins in "In the Air Tonight", and now ready as a plug-in sound. Also new is Joe Chiccarelli's Vocal Strip. I've only had a quick play with this, but I'm already

impressed with the really analog sound that you get and they've also added Fame Studio Reaver for some really classic room sounds apart from T-Rex we also have Mixbox and Effects Rack which includes simplified versions of 70 effects from T-Rex AmpliTube and SampleTank we also have the Lurson Master String Console and for room correction there is the ARC 3 system now honestly I'm probably not doing the breadth and depth of the plugins included here justice but hopefully you get the idea so what about virtual instruments one of

the most exciting areas of virtual instruments is modeled instruments where instead of using samples or recordings of an instrument we actually create the sound from the ground up taking into account physical characteristics of the instrument this enables a level of customization which you simply don't get

in sampled instruments an example of this is the included Mono Drums 1.5 where not only do the drums sound great but we can customize them based on my new details such as what skins you use what sticks tuning the list goes on new to this version we have three new kits

to add to an already impressive lineup [Music] foreign much like modeled drums Moto Bass 2 is also a modeled instrument with all the flexibility that implies and to be honest for me it's one of the most authentic sounding basses out there new to this version we have eight new basses

including some cool upright basses [Music] to expand our virtual instrument collection immensely we have SampleTank 4 a massive 600 gigabytes of piano since guitars basses percussion orchestral instruments and well you get the picture we also have the Hammond B3x full of

that authentic B3 loveliness and Leslie speakers and if synth is more your thing, Syntronic 2 gives you a wonderful collection of classics including 12 new ones for this version. And for something a little bit more quirky, we have the sampletron 2, a Mellotron-type instrument

full of those perfect imperfections. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just want to give a special mention for Miroslav Philharmonik 2. This plugin has been around for some years, but I still feel that it's one of the best

most complete tools around for orchestral or soundtrack work. If you want to have all of your orchestral sounds there in one place, all with the great sound quality, I think this is a much overlooked plugin. And although there is nothing new in this version, it

is included in Total Studio Max 4. In a moment we're going to take a look at the incredible plugins included for guitars, but before we do that, I just want to remind you about how easy it is to distribute your music through our

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VIP Link in the description and you'll get an extra seven percent off Amplitude 5 Max 2 is the maxed out version of IK Multimedia's popular guitar amp simulator. This version now includes Amplitude Mesa Boogie 2 and 4 virtual

X gear pedals, bringing the total gear models up to 435. You're going to find a huge collection of much-loved amp models and pedals here with lots of customization and a really great sound. [Applause] It also now has seamless integration with something which has created quite a

buzz in the last few months. ToneX, newly included is the max version of ToneX, a guitar amp cabinet and pedal modeling system. Not only can you capture your own gear with ToneX, making it more convenient to use any time of day in any

place, but you can also choose from the 1,000 tone models included, as well as the user models on ToneNet. So the question is, should you buy Total Studio Max 4? I think if you look at the sort of general overview of what I've given you here of

what's included, you have to agree that there's a lot in there and if you try some of this stuff out, it's also really, really good quality. So when you consider that, I reckon the 799 dollars this cost is worth it if you can afford it, okay.

Now, one thing I will say is if you already own some IK Multimedia products, make sure you follow the link in the description down below and log in because I often find that people end up getting things at a much cheaper price if they already own some things from

that company let me know in the comments down below how that worked out for you A much more difficult question is should you upgrade from a previous version Well if you've got a really old version then probably the answer is yes There's a lot of new things have been added but for

versions like 3.5 which was the last major version that question's a little bit more difficult because you already have most of what's in version four However there are some new additions things like ToneX and you get the max version of that There's some new kits

for Model Drum there's new basses for Mo'o Bass and there's a few other new instruments for SampleTank etc as well which I didn't really mention here You're going to have to evaluate how important those things are going to be for you Then I would take a look at

those individually their price individually I would also recommend that you do follow the link in the description down below and make sure you log in to see how much the upgrade price is going to be for you Could you let me know in the comments down below actually

which version you'd be upgrading from and how much that would cost you Now I know a lot of you will be weighing up whether you should get this or Komplete 14 Now I'm in the fortunate position to have both and I will say I am a fan of

Komplete 14 but let's compare apples for apples because the most comparable version of Komplete 14 in terms of price is the standard edition which is around about 699 dollars The ultimate edition is like 1200 and the collector's edition I think is 800 or so so you can't really

compare those editions well let me talk about where I think Complete is really strong and I'd say it's strong in terms of virtual instruments okay they have a great range they're great quality and I just think they're designed generally very very well that's not to say that

they sort of beat Total Studio Max in all areas with this because I do think those modeled instruments bass drums etc with Total Studio Max are very very good but overall I would say that Complete is more of a thing for people who are heavily into composition it's not very

strong in terms of audio production plugins okay definitely I think Total Studio Max is a little bit stronger in that area and finally if you're a guitarist and you want to use effects for electric guitar then Total Studio Max really does beat Complete in this

area the only comparable thing is Guitar Rig and honestly I don't think it comes anywhere near closest not the same at all if you want to get more of a feel of what's so good about modeled instruments I recommend you watch this video here I

Total Studio 4 MAX? WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU BUY!

Total Studio 4 MAX? WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU BUY!