Sonic Reality Releases Sonic Synth VST/MAS Plug-In

Nov 23, 2001

Sound development company Sonic Reality has released their Sonic Synth multi-instrument plug in first announced at Winter Namm, 2001. Sonic Synth includes over 2 gigabytes of high quality sounds, lush synth and effects programming and an easy to use interface. From pianos, guitars, drums, orchestral and ethnic instruments to atmospheric pads, searing leads and deep bass, Sonic Synth has all the sounds you'd expect from a keyboard workstation, but because it uses your computer for storage and ram, Sonic Synth offers larger memory sounds than can be found in expensive keyboards.

Sonic Synth combines Sonic Reality's sound and programming content with IK Multimedia's Sample Tank engine so it is "ready to play" (no additional sampler required) and plugs right into VSTi and MAS compatible programs such as Cubase, Logic and Digital Performer. Sonic Synth ships with Sample Tank LE software which has most of the same features that Sample Tank XL has excluding only the Akai import feature and Sonic Synth has 4 midi channels/1 stereo output per instance with up to 8 simultaneous instances (depending on CPU power).

C.E.O and founder of Sonic Reality/eSoundz, Dave Kerzner says, "We plan to do other products under the eSoundz label that utilize IK Multimedia's Sample Tank engine, Bitheadz' Unity engine as well as other company's technological developments which might help bring our sounds to the hands and ears of more musicians." Sonic Reality is currently marketing Sonic Synth through their own eSoundz division as well as IK Multimedia. "Ilio still remains our exclusive distributor of CD ROM sample libraries in Akai, Emu and other sampler formats." says Kerzner. "We created the eSoundz label to concentrate on native software sampler and direct VST, MAS and other plug in formats."

• Over 2 gigabytes of sounds including pianos, strings, guitars, bass, drums, vocal, orchestral, ethnic, modern and vintage acoustic, electronic, electric and synthetic instruments
• Compatible with both Mac and PC
• VST and MAS sound module plug in
• Sampler/Synth synthesis engine with 32 bit floating point processing
• 128 notes polyphony (depending on CPU power)
• 4 midi channels per instance (8 instances currently available in Cubase for 32 channels)
• 1 stereo output per instance
• 4 effects per voice selectable among 20 DSP effects including Reverb, Delays, Chorus, Distortion, EQ & Compression, Wah Wah, Auto Pan, Tremolo, Rotary Speaker Simulation and more!
• Expandable with any Sample Tank format sound libraries or ST modules, including a new range of low priced value packed "Sonic Synth Expansion ROMS" soon to be released from Sonic Reality and IK Multimedia.
• Fully compatible with any other Sample Tank product including Sample Tank XL for expanding your Sample Tank system.

Price: $249.

For more information, visit their web site at www.sonicreality.com.