American Heartland
Sample CD-ROM library in Akai Universal format
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American Heartland is another fine
offering from the Sonic Reality team, this time focusing on
traditional, classic instruments of North America. Here's the introduction on the CD-ROM's booklet: "American Heartland is a respectful nod to America's past. Its guitars, harmonicas, dusty keyboards and beefy drums help us recall the beginnings of what would eventually become popular Rock, Blues, Country and Folk styles. These soulful instruments have a way of grounding us and helping us relate musically. Regardless of what kind of music you do, they will add a touch of authenticity to your work, and give you a well-laid path to follow your muse. The sound quality on this CD-ROM is really good. They used some top notch recording equipment, and it shows. |
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The instruments presented in this collection include beautiful acoustic guitars (Taylor and Martin), dobro, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and other classic American instruments. They are all very expressive and with a bit of sequencer work, you could make them sound very, very authentic. Check out the following demos of individual patches from American Heartland: |
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All examples were played from Propellerhead
Reason 3's NN-XT sampler, going through the RV7000 reverb (running programs
matched to the nature of the samples), then the default Mastering
Suite.
| Sound name with audio demo | My comments |
| Partition A | |
| TAY MAJDWN | A beautiful Taylor acoustic guitar, strummed. In typical Sonic Reality fashion, there are many versions of these patches, in different chords (maj, min, 7ths, 9ths and so forth - so you can mix and match, and build your song.) |
| TAYLCAPO-4CH | Multi-sampled Taylor, very beautiful and ready to play. |
| Partition B | |
| MARTIN12F | Solid, sparkly Martin. |
| Partition C | |
| BANJO LICKS | Nice performances assigned to each key on the keyboard. |
| BANJO | Banjo, sampled very well. |
| DOBRO LICKS | Superb dobro guitar |
| MANDOLIN | Very nice, hypnotic. |
| Partition D | |
| DULCIMER | Fantastic, dreamy mountain dulcimer |
| FEND ELECT F | Standard Fender electric guitar |
| GRETCH TREM | Superb Gretch electric guitar with tremolo |
| PDLSTL LICKS | Standard pedal steel guitar |
| Partition E | |
| BLUESHARPLKS | Classic "dirty" blues harp licks |
| FIDDLE LICKS | A very important component of American music. |
| Partition F | |
| HONKYTONK | Very realistic honky-tonk piano |
| JB HARMONIUM | Nice pump harmonium |
| SRB3 RICH F | Standard Hammond B-3, with fast Leslie |
| SRB3 RICH S | Standard Hammond B-3, with slow Leslie |
| Partition G | |
| P BASS+PK-H2 | Very nice Fender Precision bass |
| UPRIGHT BASS | Very warm and full-bodied contrabass. |
| Partition H | |
| QJAZBRSHM D1 | Realistic drum kit |
| Year of release: | 2000 |
| Polyphony: | n/a |
| Sound generation method: | sample CD |
| Preset memories | n/a |
| MIDI: | n/a |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | n/a |
| Sequencer | n/a |
| Arpeggiator | n/a |
| Effects | n/a |
| SITE | Type of resource | DESCRIPTION |
| www.sonicreality.com | Home Page | Sample CDs, Virtual instruments |
Sonic Reality American Heartland review with audio demo