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Notes: Make your creative dreams a reality and achieve polished, professional recordings from your home computer with Cakewalk's 'Music Creator 5' No previous recording experience required! Music Creator 5 guides you through initial set-up, making it easy for you to plug in your instrument or microphone and immediately start recording. Get professional sounding results using Music Creator's powerful tools, instruments, and effects. Creating music on your PC has never been this easy, fun, or affordable; all from Cakewalk, makers of the #1 selling music software in the world.

Technical Specifications:

- Up to 160 total tracks (32 audio and 128 MIDI)
- Professional 24-bit audio quality
- Create backing tracks fast using the Loop Explorer
- Play and record using hundreds of high-quality instrument sounds from the included Cakewalk Sound Center and the Roland® TTS-1
- Add drum beats to your songs with Studio Instruments Drums
- Get a studio-quality sound with 10 effects including IK Multimedia Amplitube® X-GEAR amp simulator, EQ, Delay, Compressor, Reverb, and more
- Add more instruments and effects with support for DirectX, VST, and ReWire
- Print lead sheets and notation; publish music to the internet; and burn CDs for fans, family, and friends

System Requirements:

- Minimum Recommended Operating System: Windows XP (32-bit) / Vista (32-bit)

- Processor Speed: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher
Intel® Core 2 Duo E7400 (2.8 GHz) or AMD Athlon X2 3600+ or higher

- RAM: 1 GB/2 GB or higher

- Hard Disk Space: 500 MB+ for core program
6 GB for program and content

- Video resolution: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
1280 X 960, 32-bit color

- Hard Disk Type: Any EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA

- MIDI Interface*: Windows-compatible

- Audio Interface**: Windows-compatible

- Optical Drive***: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-RW for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning

- Internet Access***: Any active internet connection Broadband or other high speed internet connection

- Web server access****: Available web server space with FTP access privileges

- Download version: The download version ships in 2 files. The main program (320 MB) and Cakewalk Sound Center (214 MB).


Features:

Boxed Version, Download Audio Loops, Over 250 loops, MIDI Groove Clips, Over 300 MIDI Groove Clips, Cakewalk Sound Center Expansion Pack, 150 instrument sounds, 50 instrument sounds, Studio Instruments, Drums Expansion Pack, 47 new programs, 65 new patterns, 17 new programs, 50 new patterns, Tutorial/Demo Projects, On disc, Available on Music Creator 5 Owners page.

Notes:

*Required to connect external MIDI devices
**Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com/PCresource for a complete list of recommended audio devices
***An internet connection is required for viewing online video tutorials and for uploading music.
****Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges.

Note: Music Creator does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or NT. QuickTime support requires QuickTime 7 or higher. Music Creator 5 is presented on DVD media. DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R or DVD+/-RW drive required for installation.

Notes: With Audio Creator's virtual toolbox, you are just a click away from recording and editing audio; burning and ripping CDs; cleaning and converting albums to CD or MP3; encoding, tagging, and organizing your sound library; backing up your files to data CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray; and even publishing music to the Internet.

If you care about your audio, there is no better choice than Audio Creator. It's from Cakewalk, makers of the world's most popular music creation software, used daily by Grammyr winning musicians and producers.

Notes: Mixcraft 4 is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program. As a multi-track audio recording program, Mixcraft allows you to record and play multiple tracks of audio and MIDI virtual instruments at the same time. You can add effect processing such as reverb, delay, guitar amp simulator, flanger or any 3rd party VST or DirectX effects. Hook up a MIDI keyboard and you can play a whole studio full of virtual synthesizers. As remix software, it supports Apple Loops, Acid Loops and our own custom loop format. Mixcraft's Song Kits allow you to create your own song in dozens of styles to sing along or rap to. Creating your own loop or extracting a loop from a well known song is a few clicks away. With Mixcraft, you can always be on the beat. When you've finished your project, mix down your music to CD or MP3 directly in Mixcraft. Even with all this power, Acoustica engineers have kept the design easy-to-use and clean.

Mixcraft 4 Features:
Clear, colourful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work.
Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles.
Works with Acid and Apple Garage Band loops.
Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3 emulator, MiniMoog emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer.
Includes 18 high quality effects.
Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
Add unlimited VSTi instruments, VST and DirectX effects.
Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types.
Burn CDs of your mix with just one click.
Main Interface
Mixcraft can be used as DJ remix loop software or as a stand alone multi track audio and MIDI recording studio for your band. It's designed to be easy to use and allows you to work fast so you can get the job done.
Mixcraft supports full undo and redo, so if you make a mistake, just undo it!

Loop & Sound Library:
Mixcraft comes includes dozens of styles and hundreds of built-in loops and sound effects. All loops automatically beat match for effortless song creation. All sounds and loops can be used royalty free!

Virtual Instruments: New!
Choose from hundreds of presets and patches made up of virtual instruments that model the sounds of classic synthesizers or General MIDI pianos, trumpets, or strings. Create powerful mega-presets that combine multiple virtual synthesizers and effects. Plug in a MIDI keyboard and start playing!

MIDI Piano Roll Editor: New!
Edit your MIDI recordings with your mouse. Trim, resize and fix notes and controller information.

Loop Editor:
Create loops from any sound or song. View detected beats and tempos for any song over 30 seconds.

Customizable Tracks:
Each track in Mixcraft is highly customizable. Include your own images or choose from stock images bundled with Mixcraft. Pick a color and name for each track and resize tracks for improved editing.

Editing Sounds:
Shape the individual volume, pan, low and high pass filters for each sound. Split, trim, time stretch, beat match, or pitch shift any sound. Copy, paste and loop your audio to your heart's content.

Effects Galore:
In addition to the 18 bundled effects, Mixcraft supports VST and DirectX effects. Mixcraft's effects include delay, guitar amp simulator, reverb, compressor, limiter, phaser, auto-filter and master limiter.

Burn Your Own Audio CD:
When you are done, burn a CD or mix it down to MP3 to pod cast it or send it to friends.

System Requirements:
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, XP, or Vista.
512 MB Ram (2 GB RAM recommended).
1.0 Ghz CPU ( 2 Ghz Dual Core recommended).
Sound card or sound device.
Display resolution @ 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 or greater recommended).
Optional MIDI keyboard.

Notes: With over four hours of information, this 2-DVD set will not only show you the basics, but also take you much further into advanced techniques for recording, editing, MIDI and more. You will see how the software and hardware work, and be shown in detail exactly how to use Pro Tools like a professional. It also goes step by step through Beat Detective, a powerful part of Pro Tools that allows you to tighten, fix, and even change the groove of drum and percussion parts. Your host Ken Walden is a former nine-year veteran Digidesign/Pro Tools Product Specialist and a seasoned engineer with credits on recordings by several top-name artists. Ken delivers all the essentials you need to set up your system and to begin recording your music without compromise. Learn the ins and outs of creating and honing Pro Tools sessions, and discover techniques that will give you a huge head start.

This DVD covers - recording, editing, mixing, beat detective, system setup, Midi and more.

Notes: Professional Audio and MIDI recording package. Powerful editing tools,
32/64Bit XP and VISTA compatible, with numerous plugins and instruments.
Now includes many performance optimisations, and additional instruments such as
Dimension PRO, Beatscape, True Pianos, and audio processing using transient
shaper and tube leveller. Plus many gigabytes of libraries and creative content.