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Roxio Toast 9 Titanium

from Roxio

Burn your discs easier than before with Roxio Toast 9 Titanium for Macintosh. Toast is the standard for burning your data, music, photos, or video to multiple disc types including HD DVD and Blu-ray media.

Fit-to-DVD compression fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc (Does not copy encrypted or copy protected content) Choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want to maximize available disc space Preview content of movies before copying - Requires Apple DVD Player software Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet Audio fingerprinting technology identifies untagged music files and adds name, artist, album, etc - no more Track_01 Edit audio tracks with the CD Spin Doctor Graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions Adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply filters Restore music from LPs and tapes Print labels directly to disc using LightScribe or Labelflash-enabled burners and media Video cropping and trimming Create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs (Requires purchase of the HD/BD plug-in) Watch your recorded TiVo or EyeTV shows via the Internet - Stream video from your Mac to your iPhone or Internet-connected PC or Mac Easy TiVoToGo transfers (Does not work with DirecTV provided TiVo DVRs) Watch on your Mac, burn to a DVD, BD or HD DVD disc or export to your iPod or PSP

Get the most from your digital media and Mac OS X, with Toast 9. Extending your options to Blu-ray and HD DVD media, it sets the standard yet again for burning on the Mac and includes a host of new features. Compress, copy and convert video to watch on popular mobile devices. Trim unwanted segments. Capture streaming audio from any source, even automatically add title, artist and other tags--then enjoy it on your iPod. Burn or play your favorite TV shows--even those captured from your TiVo--on your iPhone or PSP. It's everything you need to Toast your digital life!

Take your favorite TV shows--including HD recordings--to go, with easy TiVoToGo transfers.

Fit-to-DVD compression technology fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc.

Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray Disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.

Enjoy Your Life in Hi-Def
For the first time, create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs of your AVCHD camcorder footage, TV shows recorded by TiVo or EyeTV. You can even burn all your high-def photos and slideshows!

The Road Warrior Entertainment System
Stream your recorded TiVo shows, home movies and more from your Mac to your WiFi connected iPhone, iPod Touch, or internet-connected Mac or PC. Quickly browse through all your available shows, click and enjoy!

Create Your Own Director's Cut
Enjoy up to 4 hours of DVD-Video on a single DVD compilation of your favorite movies or TV shows. Choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.

Mac & PC Data Spanning
Span files of any size across multiple discs--including Blu-ray and HD DVD discs--and then restore and read them on either a Mac or a PC. And now Toast 9 puts you in the driver's seat enabling you to save and backup selected files without splitting them across multiple discs.

Capture music from the Internet or any audio source playing through your Mac and use Toast 9's new audio fingerprinting technology to identify song title, artist, genre and more.

Stream your recorded TiVo shows, home movies and more from your Mac to your WiFi connected iPhone, iPod Touch, or internet-connected Mac or PC.

Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions.

Identify Songs for Your Music
Build a huge music library by capturing music from the Internet or any audio source playing through your Mac and use Toast 9's new audio fingerprinting technology to identify song title, artist, genre and more!

Blu-ray and HD DVD Support
Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.

Perfect Audio CDs & DVDs
Creating your best music mix has never been easier with the new CD Spin Doctor! Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions. Adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply sound enhancing filters, set pauses between tracks, and more. Then burn audio CDs that are 100% true to the official Redbook specification.

Save and catalog your data and discs

• Improved--Burn up to 30 GB on a single HD DVD disc or up to 50 GB on a single Blu-ray Disc--archive up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or hours of HD video.
• Improved--Span files of any size across multiple discs--now including HD DVD--and then restore and read them on either a Mac or a PC.
• Automatically catalog and track the contents of your discs--easily locate any file, even when the discs aren't in the drive.
• Create hybrid discs with content unique to the Mac or PC--including custom icons, background images, and discs that "autorun" on PCs.
• Improved--Schedule backups to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD, network volumes, and removable storage devices like a USB flash drive or hard disk.

Create and enjoy the best-sounding audio CDs and DVDs

• New--Capture streaming audio from any source, including the Internet, to build a library of audio tracks.
• New--Unique audio fingerprinting technology identifies untagged music files and adds name, artist, album and other file info--no more "Track_01"!
• Improved--Easily edit audio tracks within the new CD Spin Doctor.
• Create perfect mixes with smooth graphical DJ-style crossfades and transitions.
• Control your audio--adjust output levels, trim unwanted sections, apply sound enhancing filters, and more.
• Restore music from LPs and tapes, using the CD Spin Doctor Recording Assistant featuring guided recording, automatic track definition, noise reduction, and sound filtering.
• Improved--Print labels directly to disc using LightScribe

Compress and copy your discs

• New--Batch DVD-Video saves you time by letting you use multiple DVD-Video folders for Fit-to-DVD compression or conversion.
• Improved--With DVD compilation you can now enjoy up to 4 hours of DVD-Video on a single disc.
• Create backup copies of an audio CD with a single click.
• Fit-to-DVD compression technology fits an entire 9 GB dual-layer DVD video to a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc.
• Create your own Director's Cut--choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.
• Preview the video and audio of movies and extras before copying.

Watch your TV shows, videos and photos any way you want

• New--Video cropping and trimming features let you easily remove unwanted video segments before you burn to disc or move to your portable player.
• New--Create High Definition Blu-ray, HD DVD or standard DVD discs of your HD camcorder footage, high resolution slide shows or other HD video content.
• New--Watch your recorded TiVo or EyeTV shows via the Internet--stream video from your Mac to your iPhone or Internet-connected PC or Mac!
• Improved--Take your favorite TV shows--including HD recordings--to go, with easy TiVoToGo transfers. Watch on your Mac, burn to a DVD, BD or HD DVD disc or export to your iPod or PSP.
• Improved--Set your own custom background images, or choose from an extended set of DVD menus for HD and standard definition discs.

Apple Logic Express 8

from Apple

Logic Express 8 delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8?including a redesigned interface that allows musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease. Logic Express includes all the functionality of Logic Pro 8 except for four high-end professional features?surround, TDM/DAE support, distributed audio processing (DAP), and support for high-end control surfaces. Logic Express 8 comes with an expanded collection of professional instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Studio, as well as channel strip settings and plug-in settings that allow you to begin making music immediately with professionally designed sounds. Logic Express is the ideal application for professional musicians and producers who want to get into the world of Logic for $199, as well as GarageBand users whoare ready to take their music to the next level. Network-based save and share, to use your settings and key commands on any Mac More than 100 instruments and effects from Logic Studio New instruments and effects from Logic Studio, including Ultrabeat and Guitar Amp Pro New channel strip settings and plug-in settings created for Logic Express, for a wide range of high-quality sounds System Requirements - Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later

Logic Express 8 gives musicians everything they need to write, record, edit, and mix. It delivers the same innovative production tools as Logic Pro 8, including full notation, 24-bit/192kHz resolution, and Quick Swipe comping. A beautifully redesigned interface consolidates all windows into a single, efficient workspace made for musicians. Make music right out of the box with 36 instrument plug-ins from Logic Studio, including Ultrabeat drum machine, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2 synth. Shape music productions with 70 effect plug-ins from Logic Studio, including Guitar Amp Pro, Ringshifter, and full-featured Pitch Correction.

Logic Express 8 offers the same innovative production tools and redesigned interface as Logic Pro 8, along with more than 100 instruments and effects from Logic Studio. Download the product overview

Logic Express 8. Powerful music creation.
Logic Express 8 delivers the power, precision, and professional toolset of Logic Pro 8--including a redesigned interface that allows musicians to write, record, edit, and mix with unparalleled speed and ease. Logic Express includes all the functionality of Logic Pro 8 except for four high-end professional features--surround, TDM/DAE support, distributed audio processing (DAP), and support for high-end control surfaces.

Logic Express 8 comes with an expanded collection of professional instrument and effect plug-ins from Logic Studio, as well as channel strip settings and plug-in settings that allow you to begin making music immediately with professionally designed sounds. Logic Express is the ideal application for professional musicians and producers who want to get into the world of Logic for $199, as well as GarageBand users who are ready to take their music to the next level.

A World of Options
Logic Express puts a world of creative options at your fingertips, thanks to an open architecture that lets you use a wide range of audio interfaces and many different control surfaces. You can also explore hundreds of third-party Audio Units instruments and effects and incorporate sounds from third-party applications such as Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason. Logic Express lets you work anywhere at any time, without proprietary hardware. When inspiration strikes, all you need is Logic Express and a Mac to capture your ideas and turn them into music—at home, on the road, or in the studio.

New in Logic Express 8
Logic Express 8, Apple's professional music production application, provides musicians with the powerful, easy-to-use tools they need to write, record, edit, and mix. It features an interface that has been redesigned for fast, intuitive control, with all the key functions organized in a unified workspace. Time-saving recording and editing tools make Logic Express 8 perfectly suited for everything from a scratch recording to a symphonic 24-channel recording.

Includes 36 instruments and 70 effects from Logic Studio.

New features in Logic Express 8 include:

• Next-Generation Interface
  A new workspace features a single-window design with retractable panes, customizable toolbar, shortcut menus, built-in browsers, and dual channel strips. This streamlined layout eliminates clutter and lets you focus on your music.
  
  
• Simplified Setup
  Logic Express 8 lets you start making music right away, with production-ready templates, one-step track setup, dynamic channel strip creation, and seamless integration of ReWire-compatible applications such as Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason.
  
  
• Effortless Multitake Recording
  Logic Express 8 offers a simple, flexible approach to multitake recording. When you record over existing material, your takes are automatically stored in a take folder. Expand your take folder at any time to see a graphical display of all your takes for easy auditioning and editing. You can move a take folder anywhere in your arrangement and edit it just as you would any other region.
  
  
• Revolutionary Quick Swipe Comping
  Quick Swipe comping dramatically streamlines the process of comping tracks. Rather than cutting, moving, and muting regions, all you have to do is click and drag to select the best sections of each take. This creates a perfectly seamless comp, complete with transition-smoothing crossfades.
  
  
• Powerful Audio Editing Features
  New editing features in the Arrange window allow you to work with greater speed and precision, without opening separate windows.
  
  
• Network-Based Save and ShareBack up personal channel strip settings, plug-in settings, and key commands to your .Mac account for easy access from any computer connected to the Internet.2 You can also select favorite settings to share across a local or Internet-based network or through your .Mac Public folder.
  
  
• New Instruments from Logic Studio
  Logic Express 8 features 36 high-quality software instruments—including Ultrabeat, ES1, ES2, EXS24 Sampler, and more than a dozen GarageBand instruments.
  
  
• New Effects from Logic Studio
  With more than 70 professional effects, Logic Express gives you a rich palette of options for creating unique sounds—including a number of high-quality effect plug-ins from Logic Studio.

Built-in media browsers give you intuitive, rapid access to your content without opening additional windows or leaving the workspace.

Logic Pro 8 offers a simple, flexible approach to multitake recording.

Logic Express represents the gold standard for creating and editing MIDI-based music.

Additional Features in Logic Express 8
Logic Express 8 is a sophisticated, full-featured audio and MIDI application that provides all the tools you need to create professional-quality music productions. It allows you to record and edit audio and MIDI, add high-quality effects, and mix your music. The final mix can be exported to one or more standard audio files or burned to an audio CD. Logic Express 8 offers a broad and deep feature set in a redesigned single-window workspace.

Key features include:

• Ultimate Writing Studio
  A professional collection of music creation and writing tools makes it easy to capture and develop your musical inspirations. Record multiple takes, quickly assemble the perfect comp, establish a groove with a selection of Apple Loops, and fill out the remaining parts in your composition with Studio Instruments.
  
  
• Multitrack Recording
  You can use Logic Express 8 to record anything from a quick demo to a large-scale commercial project. One-step track setup lets you create and record-enable multiple tracks with ease.
  
  
• Precision Editing
  Audio editing features in Logic Express 8 let you work with power and precision, using sample-accurate tools in the Sample Editor or directly in the Arrange window.
  
  
• Professional Mixing
  Complete your project with powerful mixing and automation tools that meet the demands of any size production.
  
  
• Broad Compatibility
  The open architecture of Logic Express 8 offers enormous creative freedom to musicians by supporting a wide range of professional hardware and software options.

Choose from a wide range of EXS instruments and quickly build sampled instruments and sample libraries using the integrated, redesigned EXS Editor.

Additional Instruments from Logic Studio
Logic Express 8 includes 36 professional instrument plug-ins. In addition to new instruments from Logic Studio—such as Ultrabeat, EXS24 Sampler, and ES2—Logic Express features more than a dozen instruments from GarageBand '08 and a set of powerful synth instruments from Logic Studio.

Synth Instruments
Produce beautiful synth beds and driving bass lines with an array of FM, subtractive, and analog-modeled synthesizers. An impressive range of synthesizer sounds offers even more richness, thanks to new modulation effects.

• ES1
  The ES1, a classic analog-style synthesizer, lets you create earthshaking basses, rich pads, textures, screaming leads, ultrasharp percussion, and exotic effects. The plug-in offers up to 16-voice polyphony; each voice features a main and sub oscillator to deliver the raw sounds that are shaped by the analog ES1 filter.
  
  
• EFM1
  The EFM1 uses FM synthesis to re-create the classic synthesizer sounds of the 1980s. A simple interface provides accessible controls that make tweaking sounds a pleasure, or you can let the EFM1 create its own sounds randomly.
  
  
• ES E
  The eight-voice polyphonic synthesizer lets you mix sawtooth or rectangular waves in a huge variety of tones, with additional controls for frequency and impulse width modulation.
  
  
• ES M
  The ES M lets you design powerful basses and expressive lead sounds straight from the 1970s. Variable selection between sawtooth and rectangular waves and a biting slope characteristic of 24 dB give the ES M its distinctive analog sound.
  
  
• ES P
  Create the characteristic polysynth sounds of 1980s pop music with the polyphonic ES P. In addition to an oscillator, sub oscillator, and filter, the ES P offers an LFO for creating dynamic effects and an ADSR envelope generator for precise level control.
  
  

Guitar Amp Pro lets you play your guitar through faithful re-creations of classic amplifiers and speaker cabinets.

Additional Effects from Logic Studio
More than 70 professional effect plug-ins are included in Logic Express 8—most of which are the same powerful versions included in Logic Studio. In addition to new effects from Logic Studio, Logic Express 8 offers a range of production effects and creative effects designed to meet the requirements of professional musicians.

Production Effects
A range of superb-sounding effect plug-ins makes it easy to add the final polish to your music productions.

• EQ
  Fine-tune your audio production with professional EQ plug-ins like the eight-band Channel EQ, which features a graphical signal analyzer.
• Dynamics
  Compressor includes a linked limiter and five independent circuit types that capture the feel of vintage and modern studio hardware. Professional dynamics plug-ins--such as Limiter, Noise Gate, and Enveloper--further expand your ability to polish your mix or tweak your recordings.
• Voice processing
  Using the Pitch Correction plug-in, you can accurately and quickly tune vocals while preserving articulation and tonal color. Adjust the pitch of drums, speech, and vocal audio using the optimized settings in Pitch Shifter II.

Creative Effects
Transform audio and create shifting fields of sound using advanced reverb, modulation, vintage, warped, and delay plug-ins. Logic Express 8 includes creative effects suitable for a wide range of genres and performance styles.

• Reverb
  Add texture to instruments and vocals using synthesized reverb plug-ins such as AVerb, EnVerb, SilverVerb, GoldVerb, and PlatinumVerb.
• Modulation
  Fatten, twist, and modify audio with Chorus, Ensemble, Flanger, Microphaser, Modulation Delay, Phaser, Ringshifter, Scanner Vibrato, Spreader, and Tremolo.
• Vintage processing
  Get classic sounds like analog warmth or thick fuzz with distortion effects modeled after legendary tube stomp boxes. Vintage Leslie speakers are modeled in the Rotor Cabinet effect emulation, which lets you adjust cabinet type and microphone positioning. Five carefully modulated circuits for Compressor simulate the world's most respected vintage hardware, and Fuzz-Wah combines distortion, compression, and auto-wah effects in a single plug-in.
• Warped processing
  Build classic 1970s sounds with Ringshifter, a combined ring modulation and frequency shifting plug-in. Transpose, robotize, and manipulate the character of monophonic audio with Vocal Transformer. Apply dramatic filter effects with the EVOC20 Filterbank, and twist vocals and instruments with the EVOC20 Track Oscillator.
• Delay
  Use Tape Delay to create the special character and feedback behavior of classic tape-based delay effects boxes. Your creative delay options are rounded out by Echo, Sample Delay, and Stereo Delay.

Channel Strip Settings and Plug-in Settings
The built-in library in Logic Express 8 offers a wide selection of professional channel strip settings and plug-in settings. You can use the settings as is or modify them and save them as your own. You can also create settings from scratch and save them for easy reuse in any project.

• Channel Strip Settings
  Logic Express 8 offers a remarkable selection of more than 790 professionally designed channel strip settings, each combining Logic Express instruments and effects in a powerful plug-in chain. You can find channel strip settings in the library included in Logic Express.
• Plug-in Settings
  With more than 1600 plug-in settings for Logic Express instruments and effects, it's easy to start making music right away with high-quality sounds.

Electric Guitar Pack For Dummies

from Guitar For Dummies

Music Ace Deluxe

from Harmonic Vision

Music Ace Deluxe teaches beginning music lovers the ins and outs of music theory in a fun, interactive manner! Compatible with General MIDI keyboards

Sound Forge Audio Studio 9

from Sony Creative Software

Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 software is an easy-to-use home version of Sony's Sound Forge professional software ? the industry standard for audio editing and mastering on the PC platform. Built on award-winning technology used by recording studios and musicians worldwide, Sound Forge Audio Studio software brings the editing power of the pros to your home computer. Enjoy pro-level control over audio editing, EQ, volume, and effects processing. Mix audio tracks, balance sound levels, and create custom fades. Perform precise, real-time editing of audio files with simple drag-and-drop operations. Expertly balance sound levels, trim unwanted sections, and synchronize audio with video. Plug a microphone or instrument into your computer's sound card and start recording directly into Sound Forge Audio Studio software ? capture instruments, vocals, keyboards, and more. You can also import music from your own CDs and MP3s for immediate mixing and editing. Powerful encoding tools let you save audio in popular formats including .mp3, .wav, and .wma. Burn your own CDs, export to your MP3 player, or upload songs to the Web. Real-time nondestructive editing Windows VISTA Ready Multitask background rendering Media Explorer with automatic file previewing Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge Fully customizable toolbars Mix, paste, and crossfade Automatic file mixing and conversion Unlimited Undo/Redo Over 30 built-in effects & processes System and user-defined function presets Enhanced Preset Manager Crash recovery Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time Embed URL flips within audio and video stream Mono and stereo sound files Real-time play and record meters Full support for 4GB and larger files Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution Create your own loops for use in ACID software Loop-editing t

ACID Music Studio 7

from Sony Creative Software

If you're serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, multitrack audio and MIDI recording, studio-quality mixing and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want - burn your own CDs, upload to the web, prepare audio for podcasts, 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. Even if you've never written a song or played an instrument, you can use ACID Music Studio software to create original music, produce DJ-style remixes, add soundtracks to videos, and burn professional-quality CDs. 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. Use ACID Music Studio Software for complete MIDI editing and sequencing. Record and edit MIDI note and controller data on the timeline, and assign to any MIDI instrument. ACID Music Studio software supports VSTi and includes over 1,000 MIDI files and 90 instruments for song creation.

Apple Logic Studio

from Apple

Introducing Logic Studio, Apple's comprehensive suite of professional tools that provides musicians with everything they need to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio includes Logic Pro 8, Apple's professional music application; MainStage, an innovative new application for music performance; and Soundtrack Pro 2 for audio post-production. It also includes acclaimed instruments, professional effects, an expanded sound library, and new production utilities like Compressor 3 and Waveburner ? all in a single box. System Requirements - Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later

Logic Studio, Apple's comprehensive suite of professional music and audio tools, provides musicians with everything they need to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio includes Logic Pro 8, Apple's legendary professional music production application featuring a new, intuitive interface; MainStage, an innovative new application for music performance; and Soundtrack Pro 2 for audio post-production and sound design. It also includes Studio Instruments and Studio Effects, with 40 acclaimed instruments and 80 professional effect plug-ins; an expanded Studio Sound Library; and new production utilities--all in a single box at an incredible price.

Take your music from initial concept through final production and all the way to live performance using an innovative suite of products created specifically for musicians. Download the product overview

Logic Studio. Music production, live performance, sound for picture.
With its acclaimed power and flexibility for writing, recording, and producing music, Logic Pro 8 is the heart of Logic Studio. New features in Logic Pro 8 include:

• Next-generation interface, with a streamlined, single-window workspace
• Simplified setup, with professional templates for common activities and projects
• Effortless multitake recording, including automatically generated take folders
• Revolutionary Quick Swipe comping, for quickly building the perfect track
• Powerful audio editing, including sample-accurate editing in the Arrange window
• Comprehensive surround, with multichannel tracks and busses up to 7.1
• XSKey-free operation, with a simple serial number replacing the USB dongle

Built-in media browsers give you intuitive, rapid access to your content without opening additional windows or leaving the workspace.

Logic Pro 8 offers a simple, flexible approach to multitake recording.

For Creative Musicians Everywhere
With Logic Studio, you have everything you need to capture an initial idea and take it all the way through to final mastering or live performance--no matter what kind of music you make and no matter where you work.

• In the studio
  Logic Studio gives you the freedom to focus on your music rather than the mechanics of the software. All the high-quality sounds you need are at your fingertips, with a wide range of presets for instrument and effect plug-ins. Use familiar tools to quickly shape your own unique sound. Arrange your song with drag-and-drop ease and audition your arrangements as you swap out different sections. Experiment freely and intuitively to get just the sound you want, then refine your production all the way through final mastering.
  
  
• On the stage
  MainStage transforms your Mac into a streamlined live rig that offers unparalleled possibilities for producing exciting, original sound--whether you're at home, in a rehearsal space, or performing in front of an audience. Dynamically shape your sound as you perform, using the knobs, faders, pedals, and other controls on your favorite gear.
  
  
• For the screen
  Soundtrack Pro 2 and Logic Pro 8 provide everything you need to work in the world of audio post-production for film, video, and games. Compose your score in Logic Pro 8; use Soundtrack Pro 2 to edit dialogue, design sound effects, and complete the mix in cinematic surround.
  
  
• On the road
  Whether you're out on tour, collaborating far from home, or just traveling for a change of scene, you can continue to make music on the Mac. Whenever and wherever inspiration strikes, all you need is Logic Studio and a MacBook Pro to capture your ideas and turn them into music--it's like having a portable studio in your backpack. Quickly feel at home in any studio by using your own channel strip settings, plug-in settings, and key commands; just save them to your .Mac account from Logic Studio and access them in real time over the Internet.
  
  
• In your style
  Logic Studio puts a world of creative options at your fingertips, thanks to an open architecture that lets you use a wide range of audio interfaces, control surfaces, and performance hardware. You can also explore hundreds of third-party Audio Units instruments and effects and incorporate sounds from third-party applications such as Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason. Because Logic Studio offers TDM/DAE support, you can use Logic Pro 8 as the front end to Digidesign hardware, instruments, and effects.
  
  

MainStage makes it easy to use your favorite software instruments and effects in live performance.

MainStage. Introducing your new live rig.
Musicians are accustomed to using a rich palette of software instruments and effects as they write, record, edit, and mix their music, but it has been difficult to take the same sound to the stage. Artists have been forced to re-create their sounds using traditional hardware rigs or adapt software that is not designed for use in live performance.

Introducing MainStage, an application that makes it easy to use your favorite software instruments and effects in live performance. MainStage turns your Mac into a flexible live rig that includes a rich array of software instruments, powerful effects processing, and easy integration with standard hardware controllers.

Create new music in your studio or rehearsal space and use the same sounds on stage. Organize the sounds for your show with drag-and-drop ease. Dynamically shape your music as you perform, using the knobs, pedals, and faders on your favorite gear, with large-scale 3D graphics designed to show you just the information you need on stage.

MainStage dramatically expands the range of sounds you can use in your live music, with a breakthrough streamlined interface that lets you focus on performing.

MainStage features:

• Simplified user interface, with a high-contrast view for use in live performance
• Amazing sound for the stage, with world-class Studio Instruments and Studio Effects
• Flexible hardware setups, using keyboards, knobs, faders, and pedals to control sounds
• Flawless performance, with seamless patch switching and an interactive display
• Powerful templates, offering a quick and easy way to set up your live rig

With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro opens the world of audio post-production to musicians.

Soundtrack Pro 2. The next wave in audio post.
Soundtrack Pro 2 offers unprecedented convenience and power for advanced audio editing as well as creating soundtracks for film and video. Fly through editing and mixing with an intuitive interface that combines the multitrack Timeline and Waveform Editor in a single view. Create immersive soundtracks with flexible surround tools. Easily move projects between Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro, using simple round-trip collaboration features and the industry's first automatic conform process. With its familiar interface and intuitive tools, Soundtrack Pro opens the world of audio post-production to musicians.

Soundtrack Pro 2 features:

• Advanced Audio Editing
  Soundtrack Pro 2 makes it easy to edit anything—from individual audio files to large multitrack projects for film and video. The intuitive interface lets you work efficiently on common tasks and progressively disclose additional features when you need precise control. Sample-accurate, nondestructive audio processing allows you to freely experiment to get the sound you need and stay flexible until the final mix.
  
  
• Innovative Sound Design
  Using the Studio Effects plug-ins and any of the 5000 Foley, sound effects, and music beds included in the Studio Sound Library, Soundtrack Pro gives you everything you need to create anything from a quick stinger to the comprehensive sound design that sets the mood for an entire film.
  
  
• Dialogue and Restoration Tools
  Most recorded speech requires improvement, whether it consists of dialogue spoken by actors, a spontaneous interview included in a documentary, or voiceover narration recorded in the studio. Soundtrack Pro includes a range of tools that allow you to improve dialogue quickly, easily, and with precision.
  
  
• Mixing for Picture
  Soundtrack Pro 2 includes a powerful toolset for creating mixes for film and video projects, in both stereo and cinematic 5.1 surround. Save time and effort by creating simultaneous surround and stereo mixes in the same project.
  
  
• Broad Compatibility
  Soundtrack Pro 2 allows you to share files with other applications and choose from a wide variety of audio interfaces, as well as control surfaces that use Mackie Control or Logic Control protocols. It is also seamlessly integrated with Final Cut Studio for easy round-trip collaboration with film and video editors.

Studio Instruments provides the largest set of instrument plug-ins available in a single box.

Studio Instruments. Incredible-sounding instruments for Logic Studio.
Featuring 40 powerful, updated instrument plug-ins seamlessly integrated into Logic Pro 8 and MainStage, Studio Instruments provides the largest set of instrument plug-ins available in a single box. Updated instruments include an enhanced version of Ultrabeat, an improved EXS24 Sampler, and Sculpture and ES2 synths, both updated for True Surround.

Virtual mapping lets you quickly reassign controllers when your equipment changes.

Instruments in Logic Studio include:

• Ultrabeat
  Use the tone-shaping features in Ultrabeat to sculpt unique sounds from 25 drum voices, with new drum kits featuring more than 1000 new sounds. Full View drum grid editing and step automation give you more power than ever.
  
  
• EXS24 Sampler
  Choose from more than 1300 EXS instruments included in the Studio Sound Library and quickly build sampled instruments and sample libraries using the integrated, redesigned EXS Editor. The EXS24 Sampler lets you quickly incorporate sample-based sounds into your productions. Featuring sample-accurate timing, a robust synthesizer section, and support for sampled instruments of near-limitless size, the EXS24 Sampler also includes 16 individual outputs for discrete voice processing. Wide-ranging sample library support includes Akai, GigaSampler, SampleCell II, SoundFont2, and REX2.
  
  
• Vintage Instruments
  Play fully modeled simulations of vintage keyboards, including classic organs, clavs, and electric pianos. Logic Studio offers amazingly real simulations of the Hammond B3, various Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer pianos, and the Hohner Clavinet D6. All three instrument plug-ins rely on finely tuned modeling engines, so the quirks and character of the real instruments come through.
  
  
• Synth Instruments
  Produce beautiful synth beds and driving bass lines with an array of FM, subtractive, and analog-modeled synthesizers. Sculpture now includes True Surround features; the flagship ES2 synth now features surround panning and modulation effects as well as a simplified Macro view. An impressive range of synthesizer sounds offers even more richness, thanks to new surround capabilities and modulation effects.
  
  

Use Delay Designer for everything from a basic echo effect to an audio pattern sequencer.

Studio Effects. Audio processing for Logic Studio.
Enhance music productions, live performances, and post-production projects with 80 professional effect plug-ins. Studio Effects now feature 16 True Surround effect plug-ins, including the new Delay Designer, a new surround version of Space Designer, and Surround Compressor. Highlights of Studio Effects include:

Guitar Amp Pro features 11 amp models, 15 speaker cabinets, microphone controls, and an effects section for constructing the perfect guitar tone.

• New Delay Designer
  Delay Designer allows you to build creative delay effects in stereo or True Surround. Create up to 26 separate delay taps to use the power of 26 delay processors in a single plug-in.
  
  
• Space Designer, Now in Surround
  Reproduce the reverberant qualities of some of the world's most distinctive locations in stereo or full surround—with over 130 new surround impulse responses. Space Designer is a state-of-the-art convolution reverb featuring built-in EQ controls and adjustable volume, filter, and density envelopes.
  
  
• Surround Compressor
  The new Surround Compressor plug-in allows you to compress multichannel audio using a variety of vintage and modern circuit models, including Opto and FET. Linked compression ensures consistent, smooth compression of surround signals.
  
  
• Guitar Amp Pro
  Guitar Amp Pro lets you play your guitar through faithful re-creations of classic amplifiers and speaker cabinets.
  
  
• Production Effects
  Fine-tune your audio production with a range of superb-sounding plug-ins. A new Surround Compressor lets you compress multichannel surround sources, and a redesigned Multipressor displays all controls for all bands in a single window. A wide range of plug-ins provides valuable everyday tools for adding the final polish to your music productions.
  
  
• Creative Effects
  Transform audio and create shifting fields of sound using advanced reverb, modulation, vintage, warped, and delay plug-ins.
  
  
• True Surround Effects
  Process multichannel audio using 16 True Surround effect plug-ins, including Chorus, Flanger, Microphaser, Modulation Delay, Phaser, and Tremolo. All of the other Studio Effects plug-ins work with Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack Pro 2 in multi-mono, so you can use them in surround mixes.
  
  

Studio Sound Library incorporates content from five Jam Pack collections and Final Cut Studio 2 to provide a total of 18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 EXS sampled instruments.

Studio Sound Library. The ultimate sound library for Logic Studio.
Thousands of channel strip settings, royalty-free Apple Loops, sound effects, and EXS sampled instruments provide creative fuel for music creation, production, and performance. New surround content allows you to build beautiful, immersive productions.

The Studio Sound Library comes with the complete content from five Jam Pack collections, featuring redesigned material that incorporates the professional sound quality of Studio Instruments and Studio Effects. Move your productions into surround using 600 surround channel strip settings and more than 1000 multichannel sound effects and music beds. The entire Studio Sound Library is optimized for efficient browsing, with updated names and tags to help you quickly find just the right Apple Loop, channel strip setting, or sound effect.

Jam Pack collections All of the content in the five Jam Pack collections included with the Studio Sound Library has been professionally redesigned for Logic Studio. The five Jam Pack collections include: Jam Pack 1. An eclectic mix of sounds to complement any style or music project, Jam Pack 1 includes a variety of percussion, string, and synth instruments. Remix Tools. Designed for electronic music producers who work in hip-hop, techno, trance, and R&B, Remix Tools offers beats, sound effects, synth sounds, bass lines, and the rhythms of classic Roland drum machines. Rhythm Section. Assemble a solid foundation of drums with sets of fills, grooves, and groove variations. Rhythm Section also provides dozens of playable instruments: 10 strings, 10 basses, and 10 drum kits. Symphony Orchestra. Arrange music with a full orchestra, from brass and percussion to strings and woodwinds. Create classical compositions or soundtracks, or add the power of a symphony to your pop, rock, and hip-hop songs. World Music. Recorded over the course of a worldwide expedition and featuring an unprecedented collection of world loops, ethnic percussion, exotic strings, and regional wood instruments, World Music captures the most authentic performances in dozens of countries, genres, and playing styles.

The Studio Sound Library consists of:

• Apple Loops
  Build a rhythm, grab a melodic phrase, or sketch out an arrangement by choosing from 18,000 royalty-free Apple Loops; or create your own loops from any audio file by using the Apple Loops Utility included in Logic Studio. Apple Loops automatically change key and tempo to match your project, making it easy to create a groove or embellish your music.
  
  
• Sound Effects and Music Beds
  The Studio Sound Library includes 5000 sound effects and music beds taken directly from Final Cut Studio 2. Design immersive music and cinematic soundtracks with 1000 multichannel sound effects and music beds in surround.
  
  
• EXS Instruments
  The Studio Sound Library includes 1300 pristine-sounding EXS sampled instruments that you can play and process with the EXS24 Sampler or with third-party software samplers.
  
  
• Channel Strip Settings
  The Studio Sound Library offers a remarkable selection of 2400 professionally designed channel strip settings, each combining Studio Instruments and Studio Effects in a powerful plug-in chain. Of these channel strip settings, 600 are in surround, combining new True Surround Studio Instruments and Studio Effects plug-ins.
  
  
• Plug-in Settings
  Hundreds of new, professionally designed plug-in settings for Studio Instruments offer beautiful, expressive instrument sounds right out of the box. Every setting, or preset, changes the parameters of an instrument plug-in to produce one-of-a-kind sounds. The Studio Sound Library also includes more than 700 settings designed for a wide range of Studio Effects, from amp modeling to dynamics and modulation.
  
  
• Surround Impulse Responses
  Apply reverb in full surround using one of 138 new multichannel impulse responses for Space Designer. Choose from a wide variety of unusual locations, ranging from an underground cave to the 69,000-seat Allianz Arena in Munich.
  
  

Production Utilities. Convenient tools for music, effects, and mastering.
Logic Studio includes convenient production utilities for mastering and authoring CDs, encoding AC-3 surround files, and creating impulse response files and Apple Loops. Logic Studio production utilities include:

• WaveBurner
  WaveBurner, a CD mastering and authoring environment, is simple enough for quick turnaround demo discs yet sophisticated enough to deliver professional premasters and Red Book-standard CDs.
  
  
• Compressor 3
  Use Compressor 3 to encode and preview surround mixes in the industry-standard Dolby Digital AC-3 format. It outputs files to MP3 as well as to any QuickTime-compatible format, including AAC, AIFF, and QuickTime Surround.
  
  
• Impulse Response Utility
  An impulse response is a sample that captures the acoustic characteristics of a given physical space. Use the Impulse Response Utility to create a profile of your favorite recording space--from a tiny wine cellar to Notre Dame Cathedral--in mono, stereo, B-Format surround, or discrete surround. Then use the sample in Space Designer to place your music "inside" the acoustic space.
  
  
• Apple Loops Utility
  The Apple Loops Utility lets you convert any audio file to an Apple Loop. It analyzes the sound file and generates the metadata used by Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro to match the audio file's tempo and key to the project tempo and key, without changing pitch.

Sibelius 5 Educational Edition

from Sibelius Software Ltd.

Sibelius 5 music notation software helps teachers with preparing teaching materials and arrangements. It lets students hear how their work sounds, makes it easy to find and correct mistakes, and is much more fun to use than pen and paper! Sibelius 5 is suitable for all educational levels-it?s easy for beginners, yet sophisticated enough for all university requirements. At university level, Sibelius 5 software satisfies the most advanced requirements, from avant-garde and early music notation to Schenkerian analysis. If you?re an instrumental teacher, Sibelius makes it quick to create exercises, scan in, transpose pieces, and produce accompaniments and arrangements-you?ll never need to write out parts again.

eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac

from eMedia

eMedia's Guitar Pro 5.1 is the most powerful and intuitive tablature editor on the market. This multitrack tablature editor/player for guitar, banjo and bass. The advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation and tablature support for any stringed instruments with four to seven strings! You can create complete scores for a band in minutes. Improved ASCII import/export and the newly enhanced speed trainer will show you why eMedia Guitar Pro 5.1 is the dominant force in guitar music on the web. Use the Chord Generator as a reference, or to easily add chord diagrams to the score Create a chord diagram by clicking on the grid -- eMedia Guitar Pro 5 will give you all the corresponding names

Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 6 XL

from Cakewalk

Sonar Home Studio 6 XL makes it easy to produce professional music, without being in a studio. The 64-bit double precision engine gives you pristine sound quality, for unmatched music creation. Active Controller Technology (ACT) dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instruments to hardware controllers, for easier music creation. The AudioSnap suite lets you take complete control of your track, while the Synth Rack makes automating instruments a snap. At every step of your production -- from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond -- you'll fast forward your music production. SONAR Home Studio XL adds value and more power with a selection of over one gigabyte of instrument sounds, Boost 11 peak limiter, Session Drummer 2 drum instrument, and more. 10 new professional audio effects. Active Controller Technology (ACT) lets users easily control and automate effects, instruments, and their mix from MIDI controllers by automatically remapping controls to whatever has the focus Rip from and burn to CD directly from SONAR Home Studio Automate tracks, effects, and instruments easily with enhanced automation tools. MIDI Input Quantize corrects the timing of MIDI performances in real-time. Freeze tracks, effects, and virtual instruments to conserve CPU power. Native and fully integrated support for VST plug-ins, no wrapper required. DropZone sampler with extended library of instrument sounds including a Drum Pack and Bass Pack. Cakewalk Publisher lets users present and stream their music on the Internet SONAR Home Studio XL Exclusives - Boost 11 Peak Limiter - Get more volume and punch from your final mix with this easy to use peak limiter/maximizer. Boost 11 gives you professional results with a simple to use interface / Dimension LE - A special version of the synth from Cakewalk. Features over 400 sound programs, ranging from real bass, organ and electric piano samples t