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Multi-Media Audio Mega-Pack CD-ROM
There are six folders of files contained on the disk. They cover five genres, DJ Spin, Electronica, Funk, Rock, and World Pop. The folders include CD Quality Audio Clips, Audio Clips for Websites, MIDI Music Songs, Sound FX CD Quality, and Sound FX Websites. There is an abundance of quality samples, for instance, there are 47 sounds and loops in the electronica section of web music clips, with an average size of 12k in either 8 or 16 bit sampling rates. There are 51 samples in funk, and 40 in dj spin. There are sounds for button clicks, background loops, and lots of other great material to choose from. The MIDI section contains 52 great GM format MIDI files divided into 3 categories, Holiday Carols, Piano Classics, and Pop Jazz Infusion. I tried out some of the files in the Pop Jazz Infusion section , on my "soft synth" asoftware based Roland SC33 Sound Canvas, and they sounded great. highlights include the originals SI Glass Blown.mid, SI Loose End.mid, and SI Vintage Mood.mid. There is also an excellent documentation area focused on the MIDI files, and how to use them, and incorporate them into your website. The disc also has very good docs, with sections
on installing, how to use webpacks in websites, special sections for pc
and mac users, converting to other formats, reducing the size of audio
files and a great user support section, as well as an email address for
online support. Nicely laid out in an 8-page multi-media application,
this tutorial tells you how to use the music and sounds on this CD to
enhance your website. Tutorial includes definitions of the popular audio
and MIDI file formats, browser compatibility issues and chart, sample
websites, sample HTML code and access to more free music and sounds. These
samples will give you a leg up on professional-sounding audio for multi-media
presentations and website production,even if your gear setup is minimal.
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Although
I'm reviewing the Macintosh version, this pack is also available for the
PC platform. The MAC User format of the Audio WebPack, offers the audio
files in 8 bit, 8kHz, ulaw .au format as well as 126 bit.. This is a format
that allows for very small file sizes in order to make download time off
the Internet very quick. Although the sampling rate and bit rate is very
small, Sonic Implants has optimized each sample to sound as good as possible
with these restrictions. They have also been thoroughly tested on PC speakers
and will sound fine in that context. AU files are also the file format
that Java currently requires so you will be able to use these with Java
encoded objects. In addition to the great performances, I really appreciated
the variations within the tracks.