Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 5.0 Now Shipping.Business Editors MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 Special Web Site Pricing Now Available Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SOFO SOFO Student Organization Financial Office (University of Colorado at Boulder) ), a leading developer of digital media and Internet software tools, products, and services, today announced that its Sound(R) Forge 5.0 digital audio editing system is now shipping to all distribution channels and is available for sale at www.sonicfoundry.com. Sound Forge 5.0 is available for $499.95 with a $99.95 upgrade for any pre-registered users of Sound Forge. Registered Sound Forge XP users can also upgrade for $249.95. Additionally, Sound Forge 5.0 is available through www.sonicfoundry.com for download at 30% off of the MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) , and the box version of the software can be ordered from the Web site for 20% off the retail price. Sound Forge 5.0 provides support for 24-bit/32-bit float/192 kHz audio files, Track-at-once CD burning, and CD Ripping. These features allow the user to produce high-quality audio CDs as well as the ability to transfer music to a hard drive with saving options such as RM, MP3, WAV, and WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. formats. The software includes dozens of editing features including: Cut, Paste, Move, Delete, Mute, Reverse, Fade, Crossfade, Trim, Normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. , Pan, Resample, Enhance, Insert Silence, and more. Sound Forge provides over 35 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets. Additionally, the new version includes 20 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins, featuring XFX XFX Crossfix XFX Extreme Effects (TM)1, XFX(TM)2 and XFX(TM)3, and Acoustic Mirror(TM), which can be used for acoustic simulation and microphone modeling. The suite of audio effects includes: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Compression, Enveloping en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" , Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb, and Vibrato vi·bra·to n. pl. vi·bra·tos A tremulous or pulsating effect produced in an instrumental or vocal tone by minute and rapid variations in pitch. ; three Eqs--Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic and Time Compression/Expand. It also supports DirectX-compatible Plug-Ins from third party applications. About Sonic Foundry Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry(R) is a leading developer of digital media and Internet software tools, products, and services. Sonic Foundry's award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications, music, video, and broadcast solutions, and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. . Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division is the pre-eminent supplier of digitization, management, and delivery solutions for audio and video content owners. Serving as the link between content and customers, the Company provides proven, comprehensive processes that enable content delivery to new and emerging distribution channels. Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for the Company's products, the Company's ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services, the effect of new competitors in the Company's market, integration of acquired businesses and other risk factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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