Sound Forge Audio Studio is everything you need to edit and master professional-quality audio on your home computer. Record live instruments and vocals, edit and restore audio, apply studio-quality effects, and convert files with lightning speed. You can even create your own karaoke tracks with the Vocal Eraser tool. With a few basic commands, you can produce high-fidelity audio on your PC.Capture your performance To record live audio, simply plug a microphone or instrument into your computer's sound card and click Record. Easily capture instruments, vocals, keyboards, and more. You can also import audio from your own CDs and MP3s or use the Vinyl Recording and Restoration tool to record audio from LPs and cassettes. Monitor audio levels in real time for accurate mixing. Record voiceover tracks for your videos, and create custom audio effects and textures.Powerful editing tools Simply drag and drop to expertly balance sound levels, trim unwanted sections, and synchronize audio with video. You can also use Sound Forge Audio Studio software to create your own music loops and samples to use with ACID Music Studio software.Create your own karaoke tracks Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 software includes the Vocal Eraser plug-in. Easily remove vocals from most recordings or isolate vocals. You can also use this plug-in to extract vocals from songs for remixing. The Vocal Eraser plug-in contains presets for various recording and vocal types.Extensive video support Sound Forge Audio Studio makes it easy to synchronize audio with video for video scoring. Import popular video formats including Windows Media, QuickTime, and more.Customize audio with effects Customize your audio with more than 30 built-in audio effects such as EQ, delay, chorus, and reverb, as well as the included 1,001 Sound Effects. DirectX and VST support expands the number of effects you can apply and increases your mastering flexibility.Learn as you go with easy tutorials Sony's exclusive Show Me How tutorials

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Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 10

The iLok2 from Pace is smaller, stronger, customizable, and has a much higher capacity than the original making this portable software license solution better than ever before. iLok 2 is small enough that you can fit two of them side by side in adjacent USB ports, and the sturdier USB connector and solid body makes each one tough enough for constant usage. Best of all, thanks to the latest in technology, the smaller iLok can now hold over 500 software license authorization while allowing you to add a custom label under the protective sleeve so you know more which iLok is which. iLok2 is also compatible with the original. You can download any licenses that are available for download in your iLok com account to your new iLok. The new iLok is backward-compatible and except for the License Card slot, does everything the original iLok does. You can also move your licenses from an original iLok to a new iLok in your account with the iLok com Move Licenses utility, subject to software publisher restrictions.The iLok2 is also fashionable with a sleek black design and cool blue LED to let you know when it's in use.

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Pace iLok 2

Video Editing and Playback: Easily create photo slideshows. Add advanced personal touches for stunning results Create and edit videos and movies and export to create HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Apply high quality movie themes to your slideshows and videos with the automatic slideshow creator Share photos and videos on social media communities Disc Burning: Burn with the world’s most trusted award-winning burning engine. SecurDisc technology helps ensure data accessibility regardless of scratches, age, or deterioration. Automatically convert saved audio files into other formats. Compile CDs that contain both audio and data files. Create Audio CDs from mp3s for playback on various media players. Backup and Recovery: Back up your entire system in a few easy steps. Backup to hard drives, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, FTP server, memory cards or online storage. Recover files, folders, drives and the entire OS after a computer crash, hard drive failure or virus attack. Restore photos, mp3s, documents and folders from scratched or damaged CDs and DVDs. Retrieve deleted files from hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash storage and floppy discs.

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Nero 10 Multimedia Suite Platinum HD

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack takes HD video and audio production even further with tools for professional-level sound design and more video effects and transitions. Use the included Sound Forge Audio Studio software for precise audio editing and CinescoreStudio software for soundtrack creation. Upload movies to YouTube, burn to Blu-ray Disc, or author DVDs.

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Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack

Experience perfect video editing and dubbing. Movie Edit Pro 17 is the ideal solution for beginners as well as ambitious users: Effortless video capture, straightforward editing, spectacular 3D effects, a large selection of preset titles and fades, brilliant dubbing, with the finished product burned to an interactive video DVD/Blu-ray Disc, or exported to the Internet or a mobile player. With the fastest MAGIX Movie Edit Pro ever, you will get perfect results in no time. You can’t lose with this multi award winner!

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Movie Edit Pro 17

Copy your favourite tapes and records to CD and MP3 the easy way. Includes all the cables needed to plug your tape / record player to your PC and easy step-by-step software.
Works with all types of tapes and records from commercial albums to homemade recordings and audio books.
Remove hiss, pops and clicks with a single click and apply RIAA equalisation effects. Record 45 or 78 rpm records on a 33 rpm turntable with the speed change effect.
Add artist, album, year, genre and cover art to the tracks. Integrates with iTunes and Windows Media Player for one-click saving to your music library, or burn to an audio CD with the built-in disc burning software.
Certified compatible with Windows 7.

Tags: audio cd, microsoft windows, cassette to cd, Technology Internet, music library, windows media player, software works

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Cassette to CD and MP3

ACID Music Studio is the best way to bring your music to life and share it with others. Multitrack audio and MIDI recording, pro-quality editing and effects, and over 3,000 genre-spanning, studio-quality loops to use in remixes, mash-ups, and original music creations. Share songs on CD, PSP and iPod. Includes Show Me How tutorials.

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Sony Acid Music Studio 8.0

Band-in-a-Box 2011 for Windows is here with over 50 great new features! The award winning Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), choose a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a full backing arrangement including RealDrums and RealTracks. That's right, LIVE audio recordings of actual musicians. Band-in-a-Box includes a "Plug-in" mode, allowing you to simply Drag-n-Drop tracks between Band-in-a-Box and your favorite sequencer (RealBand, Sonar, Reaper, ProTools, FL-Studio, Nuendo and more). There are some exciting new features in Band-in-a-Box 2011. We've made big improvements to the sound of the RealTracks so that they sound more natural over a much (3x) wider range of tempos. And we've made the size of the RealTracks much smaller, so that they now only take up 30% of the space that they used to. The new version will shrink the size of your existing RealTracks too, so that you can free up lots of space on your drive. We've made an iPhone version of Band-in-a-Box, available from the Apple App Store. It connects to your Windows desktop version of Band-in-a-Box 2011, and allows you to generate, play, and save songs on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad - with the same high quality RealTracks sound! We've enhanced RealTracks, so that you can now have RealTracks styles changes within a song, generate Soloist Medleys - solos that play RealTracks instruments during the solos, and more. There's a Scales Wizard for practicing, which generates scales for any chord progression. New StylePicker Filters show you only the styles that match your search criteria. And many more.

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Band-in-a-Box Pro 2011

TOAST 10 TITANIUMFOR MAC

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Roxio Toast 10 Titanium

CyberLink PowerDirector 9 Deluxe is blazingly fast video editing software that accelerates video processing in every possible way. With performance-driven technologies including the introduction of CyberLink's new TrueVelocity video rendering engine, PowerDirector 9 combines ease-of-use, powerful features and unlimited opportunities to unleash your full creative potential.

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PowerDirector 9 Deluxe