Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces the newest version of its leading home music-making software title, Music Creator.
Music Creator 5 is everything you need to get started making music — and making it quickly — offering a host of new features and a streamlined user interface. Simple recording, editing, mixing, great-sounding instruments, and tons of effects—it’s all here in one package… all for less than the price of four CDs at your local retailer.
Music Creator 5 Highlights:
- Brand new look and feel makes it easier than ever for anyone to create music
- More effects, instruments and tools — more value — than any other competitive music production package
- Up to 160 total tracks (32 audio and 128 MIDI)
- Professional 24-bit audio quality
- Create backing tracks using the included audio and MIDI loop library — add drums, bass and other instruments easily by clicking and dragging
- Play and record using hundreds of high-quality instrument sounds that are built right into your software studio
- Ten effects to get an “in the studio” sound, including the IK Multimedia™ Amplitude® Guitar Amp Simulator, EQ, Delay, Compressor, Reverb, and more
- Realistic-looking onscreen mixer to seamlessly mix all your audio and MIDI tracks
- Add more instruments and effects with support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire
- Create and print your own sheet music
- Create online music players with your songs to share on the Internet
- Create playlists and burn CDs for fans, family, and friends
- Add sound effects and theme music to your home movies and other digital video files — in formats including QuickTime, Windows Media, and MPEG — before you upload to YouTube, MySpace or Facebook
New Features:
- New, simplified user interface
- Integrated Loop Explorer — now with support for MIDI Loops
- Cakewalk Sound Center — an easy-to-use tool that combines the best sounds from our award-winning professional instruments — exclusive to Music Creator 5
- Active Controller Technology (ACT), to make it easy to control your effects, instruments, and mix from a MIDI keyboard
- Studio Instruments’ Drums allows users to make backing tracks fast with a realistic animated interface that looks just like a drum set
- MIDI editing right in the Track View — no need to open separate views
- New Assistants help you create parts and create effects busses for mixing
- IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube X-GEAR — a built-in virtual guitar amp, plug directly in to your computer for great sounding guitar parts
- Integrated EQ with an easy-to-understand visual display of settings
- Burn CDs with Music Creator’s integrated CD Burner and share your music online with Cakewalk Publisher
Pricing and Availability: Cakewalk Music Creator 5 has an estimated street price of $39.99.