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  • Sonic Implants Amps Pickups SoundFonts
  • Eric S. Strother
Sonic Implants Amps Pickups SoundFonts US$ 149.95; available from Sonic Implants; telephone (+1) 888-769-3788; electronic mail studio@sonicimplants.com;Web www.SonicImplants.com/.

Sonic Implants Amps + Pickups is a collection of Guitar and Bass SoundFonts for use with Creative Labs and other SoundFont-compatible sound cards (for PC platforms). The collection features 21 guitar fonts and 9 bass fonts with demo songs in MIDI and Cakewalk formats. Sonic Implants also includes instructions for maximizing the aural effect of the SoundFonts by adjusting the chorus and reverb settings on the sound card. I tested the fonts on a Windows 2000 PC with a Sound Blaster Live! card, standard PC speakers, and Cakewalk Sonar 1.0 software, and they sounded very authentic.

The guitar SoundFonts include fonts for Les Paul, Rickenbacker, PRS, and Vintage Guild guitars as well as generic acoustic and jazz guitars, and specific fonts for harmonics and chords. The bass SoundFonts include three varieties of Alembic finger, pick, and slap basses; a Dynamic Acoustic bass; Fender Fretless and Jazz basses; a Heavy Pick bass; Hofner bass; and Spector Slap bass. Each SoundFont contains several patches to provide more specific sounds. For example, the Fender Fretless Bass SoundFont contains patches for Dry Fretless Bass, Chorus Fretless Bass, TouchFilter Fretless Bass, and combinations of these. The average MIDI user could easily get by without this collection by using the standard 8 MB General MIDI SoundFont, but someone wanting more authentic classic sounds should definitely look into this collection.

The Amps + Pickups CD-ROM is available directly from Sonic Implants (www.sonicimplants.com) for US$ 149.95.

Eric S. Strother
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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