In this video review Pro Tools Expert team member Dan Cooper takes a look at Stacker By SampleMagic - thanks to our friends at Plugin Boutique for forwarding a copy for review.

Stacker is a drum sample/hit layering tool that enables users to blend up to 3 drum samples together alongside a synth track. Stacker includes versatile delay & reverb units with deep envelope and filtering control.

Stacker is a straight forward drum VI with powerful sampling features presented in a flexible GUI. One instance of Stacker will only serve one designed hit - such as kick. I feel this is a bit of a shame as I usually work with a number of drum hits in a production such as snare, kick and claps, to flick between a number of windows feels slightly long winded.

Stacker is well worth checking out if you are into drum hit sampling.

Main Features

• Three Powerful Samplers: The Core of Stacker
• Desginer Drum Synth: Old-School Analogue Power
• Quick to Master – Devil in the Detail
• Scatter: Intelligent Time Displacement
• Shape the Details: Multi-Stage Envelopes
• Fully Fledged FX: From MPC-Style Downsampling to Analogue Filters
• Macros & Mod Matrix: Supreme Tweakability
• Delay & Ambience: Give Sounds Life
• 1000'S of Presets & Xpansions: Inspiration Assured

System Requirements

Windows

Windows Vista or higher (tested up to Windows 10)
SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or later)
Minimum 2GB RAM.
Any VST / Audio Unit (32/64-bit) / AAX-compatible host software.

Mac OS X

Mac OS X 10.7 or higher (tested up to 10.10 El Capitan)
Intel processor Mac
Minimum 2GB RAM.
Any VST / Audio Unit (32/64-bit) / AAX-compatible host software.