If you use Pro Tools you probably know Structure Free. It’s the included sample player – grudgingly castrated in the way that only AVID can grudge. Yes, you can drop some samples onto some channels in Free, save the session and pray to God that they’ll be there next time you load it up again. AVID had hoped you would pay even more for Structure, but why the fuck would you based on the few features you got to see in action? Instead you’ll get a VST to AAX adaptor and load up any free sampler, or just go straight to Kontakt.
I bought Structure 2 on sale. Whoo! I thought I might need it to make samples that students can load into their Structure Free (at least until Falcon gets fully deployed). What do you get?
It boasts a skeuomorphic interface that looked cool in 2007 but mucho weenie today. That matters more with samplers because you’re doing a lot with waveforms and key maps. Kontakt is similarly weenie but has pop-up windows for these things. Structure does all the usual things that a hardware sampler would do, not much that software has brought since apart from a decent set of effects on multiple channels. It does 7.1 surround. There’s a quite decent 37 GB sound library. I’m waving the purple AVID flag tepidly, until I stop.
If this was the only sampler you had, you could get a lot done, probably get really good at it. But it’s underwhelming in this decade, and I can’t imagine it ever being first choice for anyone at $150. It just leaves you wondering if inMusic will ever allow AIR to come up with something new?