Cakewalk Releases Club Tracks, the Remix Studio for Windows.

Technology Editors & Entertainment Writers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000

Turns Dance Music Fans into Music Producers; Allows Anyone to Create

multitrack remixes and original loop-based music

Cakewalk(R), makers of the best-selling music and sound software for Windows, has released the Cakewalk Club Tracks(TM) multitrack remix studio ($49 estimated retail price). Club Tracks allows anyone with a PC to produce original loop-based music projects and remixes that can be saved as stereo WAV files, MP3s, or burned to audio CD.

Turns Music Fans into Producers

Club Tracks requires no prior musical experience, allowing club music fans to create their own remixes. With its drag-and-drop audio editor, multitrack mixing console, complete PowerFX audio loop library and Fruity Loops Express loop generator, Club Tracks provides everything needed to produce professional-quality remix music in Hip Hop, House, Drum `n' Bass, Techno, and other dance music styles.

Beyond creating music with the included PowerFX loop library and Belgium-based

Image Line's Fruity Loops Express loop generator, users can build additional layers of tracks by recording samples from CDs, or by adding their own vocal or instrument tracks. Club Tracks also makes it easy for scratch DJs to record performances while other tracks play back. By controlling an onscreen console, users can mix tracks in real-time using chorus, reverb, echo, delay and flange effects. Club Tracks also supports DirectX-compatible audio plug-ins, providing a way for users to expand their effects capabilities as needed. Information on hundreds of additional third-party DirectX plug-ins is available at www.thedirectxfiles.com, a Cakewalk-supported web site for the DirectX audio plug-in community.

Mix to Pix

Club Tracks also imports AVI and MPEG files, allowing the user to sync digital video to audio and create music videos. Included with Club Tracks is a sample video spotlighting DJ/club culture, to which users can create their own soundtracks.

Highlights

-- Plays back up to eight stereo tracks simultaneously

-- Combines multiple loops on one track for unlimited loop

combinations

-- Includes loop library CD-ROM from Swedish producer Bil Bryant of Power FX(TM)

-- Drag and drop loops to create a remix in minutes

-- Provides an infinite number of new loops with Belgium-based Image Line's award-winning Fruity Loops Express(TM) loop generator

-- Enables user to record and mix new tracks (vocals, guitar, turntable scratches, or any other instrument) on top of loop tracks

-- Allows user to record from any audio CD and to sample or remix any music

-- Supports track "bouncing", for combining audio tracks to free up new ones, providing unlimited virtual tracks

-- Multitrack console simplifies recording and real-time mixing

-- Includes EQ, reverb, chorus, and flange effects

-- Supports hundreds of additional DirectX plug-ins (sold separately)

-- Imports WAV and ACID loops

-- Imports and syncs digital video to create new soundtracks

-- Includes 30-day trial version of Cakewalk Pyro for exporting remixes as MP3 files or burning to CDs

Pricing and Availability

Cakewalk Club Tracks has an estimated retail price of $49 U.S., and is available at music and computer stores worldwide. For more information or to purchase direct, visit www.cakewalk.com.

About Cakewalk

Founded in 1987 and based in Cambridge, Mass., Cakewalk(R) is an international, industry-leading provider of software for music and sound creation. The company's award-winning products are used worldwide by more than 750,000 professional and home users, for applications including audio CD production, film/TV soundtracks, live stage sound, computer games, multimedia applications, and Internet delivery.

Cakewalk is a registered trademark, and Cakewalk Pyro and the Cakewalk logo are trademarks of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. Other trademarks mentioned are held by their respective owners.