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ACID Music Studio

Fugazi — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:22:33 +0000

Trial – Sony – Windows

If you’re serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, live recording, and studio-quality mixing and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want – burn your own CDs, upload to the Web, or export to your MP3 player. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you’ll be composing, mixing, and mastering like a pro in no time.

ACID Music Studio software includes more than 1,700 studio-quality loops in almost every music genre to get you started. Just Pick some loops, Paint them into the tracks, and click Play.

With ACID Music Studio software you can: record and edit music from nearly any instrument or MIDI source, create royalty-free soundtracks for videos and make custom mixes and mashups of your favorite songs

ACID Music Studio software can capture from any instrument or MIDI source that can be plugged into your computer’s sound card. You can also extract audio from your own CDs and add MP3 files to your mix. Automatic key and tempo matching syncs it all up so everything plays back together and sounds great.

Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output. Customize your songs using professional-quality audio effects including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, echo, and more. Use VST and DirectX audio effects, and VST instruments. Add pan and volume envelopes, reverse audio, and change the pitch and tempo of your mix in real time.

Create your own CDs in minutes. Disc-at-once CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so you can conveniently create your music and produce professional-sounding CDs all within one application. Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for uploading to the Web, or export them to portable music devices.

Here are some key features of ACID Music Studio:
· Includes over 3,000 ACIDized music loops
· Multicore processor support
· Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
· Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
· Video scoring track
· Automatic pitch and tempo matching
· Alternate time signature support
· Real-time loop preview
· Support for multiple file formats in the same project
· Mixing and Editing
· Multitrack audio and MIDI recording
· Multiple events per track with automatic crossfades
· Studio-quality effects including EQ, reverb, delay, and more
· Chopper editing tool and loop cloning
· Beatmapper remix tool
· Track-level volume, panning, and effects editing
· Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades
· Real-time audio effects preview during playback
· Event reverse
· CD audio extraction
· Metronome
· MIDI
· Includes over 1,000 MIDI files for song creation
· Includes 90 DLS instruments and 25 DLS-based projects
· MIDI editing and sequencing
· Inline MIDI editing with drum grid
· MIDI step recording
· MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
· MIDI import and export
· MIDI input filters for tracks
· Audio Control
· 16-bit, 48kHz audio support
· DirectX audio plug-in support
· Tempo-based DirectX effects
· VST instrument support
· VST audio effect support
· ASIO driver support
· Export and Sharing
· ATRAC editing and encoding
· Gracenote MusicID CD album recognition
· Integrated disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
· Unlimited MP3 export
· Export to Sony Net MD players
· One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com

Requirements:
· MHz processor (1 GHz if using video) (800 MHz recommended)
· 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
· 256 MB RAM
· Windows-compatible sound card
· CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
· Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later
· Internet Explorer 5.1 or later

Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· nag screen on exit

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Sony Sound Forge

Fugazi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:19:07 +0000

Trial – Sony – Windows

Sound Forge is Sonic Foundry’s award-winning two-track digital audio editor. Sound Forge includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge, this one-of-a-kind application is perfect for audio recording, audio editing, effects processing and media encoding. Combine Sound Forge with any Windows-compatible sound card to create, record, and edit audio files.

The clean and familiar Windows interface makes editing a breeze. It also has built-in support for video and CD burning and can save to a number of audio and video file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3. After more than 10 years, Sound Forge 7 software remains the standard for professional audio editing and mastering on the PC platform.

Sound Forge is the professional sound editor perfect for digital audio editing, recording, effects processing, streaming content creation, forensic audio, and more. Cut, paste, mix, crossfade, and delete audio with unparalleled speed and precision. Isolate sounds, clean up audio, and restore old recordings. Sound Forge 8 software builds on its decade-long legacy by adding new features that enhance your editing workflow and increase your productivity.

Here are some key features of Sound Forge:
· General Features
· Rendered Media Path Saving
· Media rendered with Sound Forge 8 software include the project path, so you can easily return to the source Sound Forge project if you want to resume editing.
· Updated Regions List and Playlist Windows
· The Regions List and Playlist windows in Sound Forge 8 have new features for faster in-place editing and sorting. Quickly edit regions by typing new values in the Name, Start, End, or Length fields.
· Copy Statistics to Clipboard
· With Sound Forge 8 software, you can now copy the contents of the Statistics window to the clipboard for easy comparison of multiple files.
· Windows XP theme support
· New UI color preferences, icon tint saturation, and Windows XP theme support allows for complete customization of the Sound Forge 8 workspace.
· 24-Bit, 32-Bit/64-Bit Float/192 kHz Support
· Sound Forge software supports full resolution 24-bit/32-bit 192 kHz files for the ultimate in audio fidelity. Capture the subtle overtones and nuances of instruments, vocals, and effect changes that 24-bit audio provides. With Sound Forge audio software you can import, save, and even record to this resolution if your hardware supports it.
· Media Explorer with Automatic File Previewing
· Quickly and easily find, preview, and open media files using the Media Explorer window. Drag files and regions from the Explorer into the workspace or onto another open file for easy pasting, mixing, or crossfading. Explore audio files on a CD-ROM and extract automatically by dragging from the Explorer into the Sound Forge workspace.
· Recording / playback
· ASIO driver support
· Sound Forge 8 software includes low-latency ASIO driver support, providing faster, professional results, and access to support of additional soundcards.
· VU Meters for RMS Playback and Record Monitoring
· Accurately determine RMS volume levels and provide greater perceived loudness control when mastering audio projects.
· Automated time-based recording
· Set the record timer to start and stop based on your computer’s system clock. Choose start time, duration, and end time. Items may be scheduled to record on minute, daily, or weekly basis.
· Audio Threshold Record Triggering
· Configure Sound Forge software to record when a predetermined audio input level reaches a preset threshold. Recording continues as long as the level is exceeded, and stops after the threshold is no longer maintained. Perfect for unattended and offsite recording, dictation, or any time you want to record away from your computer. Also record audio when MIDI timecode is detected. Sensitivity settings are customizable with user-definable threshold and release patterns.
· Prerecord buffer
· Eliminate dropouts and missed audio at the start of a recording with the prerecord buffer.
· Editing/Workflow
· Audio Scrubbing
· Use the new scrub tool to quickly and easily find areas in your audio file. Sound Forge 8 also supports JKL keyboard commands for shuttle control to quickly find sections.
· Customizable Keyboard Mapping
· With Sound Forge 8 software it has never been easier to set custom key commands for frequently used processes.
· Real-Time Editing and Processing
· Edit files nondestructively in real-time at the sample level and hear your changes immediately.
· Waveform Volume and Pan Envelopes
· Sound Forge software has Volume and Pan Envelopes that let you visually add precise changes in your audio file over time for easier mixing.
· Graphical Fade Curves
· Perform quick and easy graphic fades, fade-ins, fade-outs, and crossfades. Fast, slow, smooth, sharp, and hold fade types are available in the Graphic Fade, Pan/Expand, Pitch-Bend, Envelope, and FM Synthesis dialogs.
· Multitask Background Rendering
· Work on one file while Sound Forge software processes another with multitask background rendering.

Requirements:
· 500 MHz processor
· 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
· 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
· 24-bit color display recommended
· Windows-compatible sound card
· CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
· Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
· Microsoft DirectX 8.0 or later
· Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
· Internet Explorer 5.1 or later

Limitations:
· 30-day trial
· Export to certain third-party formats is disabled

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Sony ACID Pro

Fugazi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:15:14 +0000

Trial – Sony – Windows

In the world of digital music creation, ACID Pro software has always stood out from the crowd. Its automatic loop time-stretching and tempo-matching technology is second-to-none, and its straightforward pick, paint, and play functionality has helped make ACID Pro software the favorite loop-based music creation tool for millions of users worldwide.

Now reformulated to add multitrack recording and full MIDI sequencing to its superior looping functionality, ACID Pro software delivers a new formula for ground-breaking music creation: loops + multitrack + MIDI. Together, these key components will add up to a full-featured professional music workstation unlike any other you’ll ever see.

Innovative Loop-Based Music Creation
ACID Pro software has been the leader in loop-based music creation for nearly ten years. Version 6 has all of the core ACID Pro features-automatic pitch and tempo matching, real-time loop previewing, unlimited tracks, and our signature pick, paint, and play interface-and new enhancements such as support for multiple media events per track, and automatic crossfades. ACID Pro 6 software also includes over 1,000 Sony Sound Series loops so you can start creating music right out of the box

Multitrack Audio and MIDI Recording
For uncompromising 24-bit, 192kHz sound quality production live or in-studio, ACID Pro software has an expanded set of features for maximum audio performance. Whether you’re on stage tracking a combo, or recording MIDI-based studio sequences, ACID Pro software is the optimal platform for reliable multitrack production: on-the-fly punch in/out, unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI, control surface support, powerful plug-in processing, and 5.1 surround mixing

Comprehensive MIDI Support
ACID Pro software has unparalleled support for MIDI sequencing, with real-time MIDI processing and precise control over MIDI events. All note and controller data can be recorded and edited on the timeline as easily as audio tracks. Use new track envelopes to automate and modify modulation, expression, or other types of MIDI controller data over time. Other new features let you record multiple tracks of MIDI, apply real-time MIDI quantization, perform filtering and processing, create and edit drum patterns.

Superior Mixing and Editing
Nondestructive editing, unlimited tracks, and real-time pitch and tempo matching-ACID Pro software has all of the essentials. ACID Pro 6 software includes our patent-pending Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization tools, real-time event reverse, freehand envelope drawing, and support for alternate time signatures. Our unique Beatmapper tool makes remixing easy, and the Chopper tool helps you create impressive drum fills, stutters, and DJ-style effects

Professional Effects and Soft Synth Support
Expand your sound palette with native support for VST instruments, as well as VST and DirectX audio plug-ins. ACID Pro 6 software includes the Native Instruments KOMPAKT Sony ACID Pro edition and over 20 DirectX effects. Create resonant sweeps, dramatic fades, EQ changes and add effects with parameter automation. Integrate ACID Pro 6 software with your existing studio: full ReWire host and device support, ASIO, and control surface automation for devices such as the Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort

Exclusive Quantization Tools
Transform loops and MIDI tracks into fresh, new sounds with our exclusive Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization tools. Change the groove of a track, apply different grooves to the same track, extract a groove from one file and apply it to another, or even create custom grooves.

Professional Workflow Features
The Media Manager is a powerful way to tag, organize, and search your collection of content. Use new project sections to quickly audition different arrangements of a project. Maximize efficiency with folder tracks and cluster editing. Use the convenient Clip Pool to easily choose and arrange the events you want to use in your compositions. Place multiple media clips on one track-automatic crossfades tie everything together. Deliver projects in nearly any format without leaving the ACID Pro 6 environment: integrated DAO CD burning, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVI, MOV, MP3, MPEG-1 & MPEG-2, OGG, PCA, RM, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV

Here are some key features of Sony ACID Pro:
Fundamentals:
· External control surface channel tracking
· Custom labels for ASIO devices and ports
· New! Interactive tutorials
· External control surface support including the Mackie Control and Frontier Design Tranzport
· Dynamic playback optimization maximizes audio performance
· Dual/multi-core processor support
· ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless support
· Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
· Real-time pitch and tempo matching
· Over 3,000 music loops in multiple genres
· Alternate time signature support
· 24-bit, 192 kHz audio support
· ASIO driver support
· Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks
· Multiple file format support
· Live audio recording
· Media Manager technology
· Customizable UI and keyboard mapping
· Flash (.swf) file format import
· Autosave crash recovery
· Dual/external monitor support
· Metronome for playback and record
· Unlimited undo/redo history
· Get Media option to download media from the Web

Mixing and Editing:
· Audio and MIDI mixing console
· Audio, MIDI, and Bus Track meters
· Input busses
· Real-time rendering
· Tempo curves
· Cross-track event drag and drop
· Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes
· Enhanced timestretch and pitch-shifting with élastique Pro
· Metronome count-off
· Switches including Normalize, Invert Phase, and Lock
· Multitrack recording for audio and MIDI
· Unlimited media clips per track
· On-the-fly punch-in recording
· Record input monitoring
· Clip Pool management
· ACID Project sections
· Envelope automation recording
· Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline
· Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects
· Nestable folder tracks
· Real-time event reverse
· Bus-to-bus routing
· Downmix monitoring
· Drop one-shots in real time
· Customizable project media folders
· Envelope changes applied to multiple selected events
· 5.1 surround mixing
· Beatmapper remixing tool
· Chopper editing tool with loop cloning
· Hotkey commands for track muting and soloing
· Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV)
· Ripple editing across multiple tracks
· Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
· Tempo, time signature, and key change markers
· Metadata command markers
· Real-time placement of markers during playback
· Volume and pan envelopes
· Tempo and key mapping

MIDI and Effects:
· MIDI track freeze
· Enhanced plug-in management
· Optimized plug-in scanning with Plug-in Manager
· Inline MIDI editing
· MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
· Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps
· MIDI filtering and processing
· VSTi parameter automation
· Program Map Editor
· MIDI file export
· MIDI piano roll snap-to-scale filtering
· MIDI event list editing and step recording
· ReWire support (mixer and device)
· VST effects support with automation and tempo sync
· Tempo-based DirectX® effects
· Groove quantization tools
· Audio Plug-in Manager
· Bypass all effects command
· Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
· Direct links to audio/MIDI editors
· DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support
· DirectX plug-in support
· Plug-in effect automation
· Over 20 real-time DirectX audio effects
· 32 assignable effect chains
· 26 effect busses
· Effects bus tracks

Automated DirectX Effects:
· Track EQ
· Resonance Filter
· Flange/Wah/Phase

Tempo Based DirectX Effects:
· Simple Delay
· Flange / Wah / Phase
· Amplitude Modulation
· Chorus

DirectX Effects:
· Compression
· Pitch Shift
· Chorus
· Delay / Echo
· Noise Gate
· Multiband Dynamics
· Graphic Dynamics
· Parametric EQ
· Paragraphic EQ
· Graphic EQ
· Amplitude Modulation
· Flange / Wah-Wah / Phase
· Smooth / Enhance
· Gapper / Snipper
· Vibrato
· Distortion

Export and CD Burning:
· Native FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio, and MPEG-2, format support
· Gracenote CD album identification
· Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
· CD audio extraction
· Export: WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RM, WAV, AIF, PCA, and AC3
· One-click music publishing to ACIDplanet.com

Requirements:
· 1.8 GHz processor (2.0 or faster recommended)
· 1 GB RAM (2.0 GB or more recommended)
· 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation (8 GB of hard-disk space for installation of all optional components)
· Windows-compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended)
· DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
· Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on DVD for use with optional Media Manager component)
· Internet connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)
· DirectX 9.0c or later (included on DVD-ROM)
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on DVD-ROM)
· Internet connection (for Gracenote MusicID)
· Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on DVD-ROM)

Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· Nag screen

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Sony DVD Architect Pro

Fugazi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:42:36 +0000

Trial – Sony – Windows

Now available on DVD: your own captivating home movies, multimedia photo albums, and music compilations-complete with dazzling menus, special features, and custom soundtracks.
With DVD Architect Pro software you can swiftly create professional-looking DVDs and even stunning widescreen productions on your home PC. Simply drag and drop to start building your next blockbuster.

Professional-Looking DVDs Made Easy:
· Your own captivating home movies, multimedia photo albums, and music compilations-complete with dazzling menus, special features, and custom soundtracks. With DVD Architect Studio software you can swiftly create professional-looking DVDs, even stunning widescreen productions, on your home computer. Simply drag and drop to start building your next blockbuster.

Choose a Theme:
· Select from 44 beautifully designed DVD backgrounds with coordinated menu buttons. You can also import your own images and graphics to create your own custom themes.

Add your Media:
· Use the explorer window to select the movies, photos, and music you want to include. Easily author a multimedia project with a movie, slideshow, and music compilation all in one.

Make Your DVD:
· Built-in DVD burning makes it easy to share your blockbuster. Produce DVDs in 4:3 fullscreen or 16:9 widescreen formats, NTSC or PAL.

DVDs made easy:
· To start building your DVD, simply drag your photos or video clips into the project window. Use the same drag-and-drop motion to place buttons, text, backgrounds, and more to create a professional-looking DVD in minutes. It’s the complete DVD experience, fast and easy!

Professional results:
· Author DVDs of your movies, slideshows, and music compilations with professional polish. You can include a wide variety of media formats, including standard-definition and high-definition video. Add behind-the-scenes features, director’s cuts, outtakes, bloopers, and more.

Menus, buttons, and subtitles:
· Create menus for your movies so viewers can jump to their favorite scenes or chapters. Design your own menus and buttons. Freely position text, graphics, and buttons anywhere on the screen. Make titles and captions stand out with effects such blur and shadow.

Perfect preview:
· With DVD Architect Studio software you control the DVD experience. Use the virtual remote control to simulate how your project will look on a television screen and how it will function in a DVD player.

Fast DVD burning:
· Burning DVDs in DVD Architect Studio software is fast and easy. With built-in support for a wide variety of DVD media formats including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL, DVD, you can quickly create a DVD that suits your needs.

Amazing Tutorials:
· Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software-just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on 25 topics. Show Me How tutorials help you spend less time learning and more time creating.

Requirements:
· 1 GHz processor
· 250 MB hard-disk space for program installation
· 1 GB RAM
· OHCI-compatible i.LINK connector/IEEE-1394DV card (for external-monitor preview)
· Windows-compatible sound card
· Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW or BD-R/-RE drive
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on application disc)
· Apple QuickTime 7.1.6 or later

Limitations:
· 30 days trial period
· Nag screen

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