Found out SampleTank 2 is able to have multiple outputs but I’m not sure how one would go about setting up multiple outputs in a newer 64 bit version of Ableton or FL Studio, etc. and if it can receive notes from other midi channels? Want to try it in Ableton because it seems intuitive for multiple outputs and midi inputs but I’m not sure if Ableton lets you have multiple VST2 folders or supports x86 plugins.

if Ableton won’t work, how can I get multiple outs in Bitwig/FL?

 

What you’re seeing is basically a legacy workflow. Modern DAWs and SampleTank v4 already handle multi outs and MIDI routing more cleanly and with more flexiblty. There’s no real advantage in going back to v2 for that. For you, this is not even "nostalgia" of an old workflow, or trying to get old projects to load as they were originally.

Unless you have some Sampletank content you can't live without...

 

If your DAW's are all 64bit that can limit things a bit since many (though not all. reaper I believe can still use them) x64 DAW's have abandoned the 32bit plugin tech altogether.
There's a couple of options for getting x86 plugins to work;
- jBridge - will wrap the original 32bit plug in a 64bit wrapper so your x64 DAW will accept and use it as a x64 plugin.
- you can install an older version of Ableton (or whatever DAW) that still supports x86 plugs natively
- install a modern 64bit DAW that still supports x86 stuff like reaper. ableton apparently dropped x86 plugin support with v10.1.

The more all around smartest alternative would be to upgrade to the latest version of Sampletank 4.
You can find it on sisite - IK Multimedia SampleTank 4 v4.2.6 Incl Keygen-R2R along with a ton of content packs.

 

Last edited: Jun 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM

Not using that, I like the 2000s era interface of 2 and it keeps me from having even more gigabytes of sample libraries in my hard drive, maybe one day when I have substantially more storage available I’ll add the newest version available

 

Nope, just a fan of the interface and the smaller library, it feels like its own little standalone library bubble separate from anything that might snowball into hundreds of gigabytes! Want to see how well older plugins of the past will integrate with modern workstations… plus SampleTank barely uses cpu so these older plugins will get you more simultaneous instances than more recent ones like Kontakt 8 or Falcon