Cakewalk® Releases Studio Instruments Collection for Mac & PC
—Fun and easy-to-use software turns your computer into an instrument; provides
a complete rhythm section including drums, electric piano, bass
guitar, & strings, for creating high quality music tracks or just having fun; just point
and click and you are making music—
Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products
for music creation and recording, today releases Cakewalk Studio
Instruments, the first easy-to-use and affordable consumer software
instrument collection for Mac and PC. Cakewalk Studio Instruments
has an estimated street price of $49.99.
Cakewalk Studio Instruments
is the first dual platform Virtual Instrument collection to be
released to the consumer electronics market. Cakewalk Studio
instruments provides a high quality Drum Kit, Bass Guitar, Electric
Piano, and String Section that can be played stand alone or can
compliment popular consumer music software titles such as Cakewalk
Music Creator, Apple Garage Band, Magix Music Maker, and SONY ACID
Music Studio.
Cakewalk has 20 years of experience in designing powerful and easy-to-use
audio and MIDI software for musicians at all levels. With Studio
Instruments, Cakewalk introduces a virtual instrument collection
that is accessible to anyone, not just musicians, through its photo-realistic,
animated, and interactive user interface. With point and click
ease and professionally recorded patterns, Studio Instruments delivers
a simple and fun way for all to make music. And best of all, Cakewalk
Studio Instruments sounds amazing because it's driven by Expression
Engine, the same industry leading technology found in Cakewalk's
professional line of instruments, including the critically acclaimed
Dimension Pro.
Everyone will be drawn to Studio Instruments' engaging animated,
photo-realistic user interfaces, and each instrument present a
true interactive music making experience: just click on a cymbal,
and see and hear it crash! Each instrument accurately replicates
the sound of its' real-world counterpart and features simple control
over the most essential functions of the instrument.
In addition,
Studio Instruments includes a comprehensive collection of pre-recorded
patterns and presets providing a creative
jump-start to making music. These patterns can be placed on multiple
pads that the user simply clicks to trigger sections of their songs.
Cakewalk Studio Instruments also allow the user to play the individual
sounds of each instrument from their computer keyboard—that means
if you can type, you can now play drums, piano, bass, or electric
piano. More advanced users can easily control Cakewalk Studio Instruments
with a MIDI keyboard or other MIDI controller. Each Studio Instrument
also features customized companion effects to enhance their sounds.
Highlights:
- An entire band all in one package: Electric
Piano, Bass, String Section, & Drum Kit
- Easy to use animated user interface with powerful controls
(cymbals crash, bows bow, bass strings vibrate, etc.)
- Play stand-alone
or use it in your favorite recording software
- Universal host compatibility
for Mac (Audio Units) and Windows XP and Vista (32- & 64-bit)
PC (VSTi).
- Enhances: ACID™, GarageBand™, Kinetic™ 2, Live™, Music
Creator™, Music Maker™, Music Studio™, SONAR Home Studio, and
many more
- Play with any USB MIDI controller, computer keyboard,
or mouse
- Professionally recorded patterns and instrument sounds,
and incredible ease-of-use make anyone sound like a pro regardless
of ability
Pricing and Availability
Cakewalk Studio Instruments has an estimated street price of $49.99 U.S. Cakewalk
Products are available at select consumer electronics and computer
retailers that include Apple, Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's, Micro Center,
J&R, and Amazon.com. Cakewalk Studio Instruments is also available direct from
Cakewalk.com as a download. For more information visit www.cakewalk.com;
or call 888-CAKEWALK (617-423-9004 outside U.S.).
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About Cakewalk
Cakewalk is the world's leading developer of powerful, yet easy to use products for music creation and recording:
Millions of musicians around the world choose Cakewalk products to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries. These customers include Grammy® and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers, and engineers. We invite you to learn more about our company and products by visiting www.cakewalk.com.
Cakewalk is a registered trademark and Studio Instruments, Music Creator, SONAR
Home Studio, and the Cakewalk logo are trademarks of Twelve Tone
Systems, Inc. Cubase and VST are registered trademarks of Steinberg
Media Technologies, GmbH. Audio Units and GarageBand, and Logic
are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned
are held by their respective owners.
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