Easy to use, the PC Guitar Effects Software is the first direct interface for guitar, bass or even vocals. Simply plug into your sound card guitar cable and you're ready to play. The Guitar Effects Software is designed to be a permanent fixture of your computer system and fits conveniently under your monitor. It's conservative look makes it look as if it's an original piece in your Windows 95/98 system.

The Guitar Effects Software produce clean and distortion modes, reverb, chorus, flanger, delay and an EQ features. The clean mode features a pristine clean tone with just enough compression to add punch and clarity without sounding over-squashed. The distortion features over 45dB of screaming gain and sustain with a gain control to tame it down. The distortion also features noise reduction with a variable threshold control to eliminate unwanted noise from noisy pickups and built-in speaker simulator software. The reverb software and built-in software speaker simulation helps give that REAL amp feel through any set of PC speakers. The AUX inputs of a sound card and software level control offer the ability to plug in other external software plug-ins effects and drum machines, keyboards, external mixers, etc.

Free Download: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Guitar_Effects/
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Guitar Studio 4 - Size: 3.1MB - Shareware
Tablature editor, chords, scales, modes, tuner and metronome

Guitar Studio is a powerful tool set for the musicians playing guitar, bass or banjo. It's a Windows 95, 98 or NT software in english and french. Guitar Studio allows you to:

* View and play all chords positions
* View and play more than 1300 chords, scales and modes all over the neck
* Tune an instrument
* Play with a metronome
* Play common multimedia files
* Edit and play tablatures
- MIDI importation and exportation
- ASCII importation and exportation
* Harmonize a scale

New in this version:
Improved management of effects of slide and bend at playback and MIDI exportation
Improved management of Inseriont mode (INS) with note links, texts and chords
Respect of return measure bars at playback and MIDI exportation
The G key in a staff no more overlap with a return measure bar at printing
Choice between G key and F key
Tempo changes are allowed inside a tablature
Tablatures are now multitrack, up to 7 tracks, each track corresponding to a different intrument
Access to mandoline and resonator guitar
Advanced management of measure deletion : empty the measure (one track) or shred the measure (all tracks)
Semi diminished chords available
A change of note duration or attack applies on the note below the cursor
Display problems with "Large fonts" setting of windows has been resolved
All guitars are now available in the evaluation version
Download, Reviews, System Requirements:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GuitarStudio/

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