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CAMBRIDGE, MA - Cakewalk, makers of the best-selling music and sound software for Windows, has released Cakewalk Club Tracks; the 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 an audio CD.
Turns Music Fans into Producers
Club Tracks requires no prior musical experience, allowing any club music fan to create 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 movie files, allowing users 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
- 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 loop generator
- Enables user to record and mix new tracks (vocals, guitar, turntables, or any other instrument) on top of loop tracks
- Allows user to record from any audio CD and 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.
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