PROPELLERHEAD Reason Essentials 8 Retail

Just like its bigger brother, Reason Essentials puts making music in focus. From concept to completion, it comes with all the essential tools for turning good ideas into great songs. Reason Essentials comes with a great selection of instruments and effects in a virtual rack that builds itself, or can be tweaked to your heartʼs content—drum machine, loop player, sampler, synths, reverb, delay, distortion and more.

For guitar players, the guitar and bass amp devices from Softube bring a wide range of top quality guitar amps, cabinets and effects. The intuitive audio and MIDI sequencer makes recording and arranging your music a breeze. When you need even more creative options, Rack Extensions expand Reason Essentials and lets you add more instruments and effects, created by Propellerhead and others. With its generous sound bank and familiar creative flow, Reason Essentials has all the sounds and patches to let you focus on the music and finish that song—faster and sounding better.

The Nuendo DTS Encoder incorporates the DTS Coherent Acoustics audio compression algorithm.
With DTS being one of the world's leading surround formats, it is good to know that encoding Nuendo
or Cubase projects to the DTS format is only a few mouse clicks away. As one of the world?s leading
surround formats, DTS is featured on over 20,000 movie screens worldwide as well as countless home
theater, PC and game console products and 5.1 Music, DVD-Audio and Video discs.
 
Product Highlights:
Variety of formats from mono up to 5.1 surround
44.1 and 48 kHz and 24 Bit supported
DTS signal as a .wav file ready to burn a 5.1 mix to CD
Contains license for DVD Video and CD productions
Compatible with Nuendo and Cubase
Using the Nuendo DTS Encoder couldn't be easier. Seamless integration into the Nuendo export dialog
makes assembling DTS 5.1 files simple and straightforward. All routines are automated, you merely
need to specify the desired format anywhere between mono and 5.1 surround. The resulting DTS files
are placed in the directory of your choice, ready for you to begin the authoring stage.
 
An integrated option to export as DTS WAV files allows the burning of encoded files to CD for playback
of a DTS stream via the digital output of any CD player. The Nuendo DTS Encoder will also create additional
discreet WAV files of the exported audio corresponding to the number of encoded channels and automatically
created new tracks in the Nuendo or Cubase project. As a result, Nuendo DTS Encoder allows the monitoring
of the encoded result on a per channel basis. The track(s) routed or panned to a certain surround channel will
be audible in the corresponding monitor file.

Minimum System Requirements
The minimum system requirements state the minimal specification your computer must have to
be able to use the software. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger
projects.

MAC:
Mac OS X v10.4
Power Mac G4 1 GHz Minimum (PowerPC only)
512 MB RAM
CD drive required for installation
CoreAudio compatible audio hardware is required
USB port required for Steinberg Key (copy protection device)*
Internet connection required for license activation

PC:
Windows XP Home or XP Professional
Intel / AMD Prozessor 1.4 GHz minimum
512 MB RAM
DVD drive required for installation
Windows MME compatible audio hardware is required (ASIO compatible audio hardware
required for low latency operation).
USB port required for Steinberg Key (copy protection device)*
Internet connection required for license activation

Power Studio provides complete integration between the included SPS audio interface and the included SONAR software—from the ease of installation, to the speed of starting a recording project. Best of all, SONAR Power Studio takes minutes to setup and features Cakewalk's legendary ease of use, so you'll be creating tracks in no time at all.

Sonar Power Studio includes full-featured SONAR 6 Studio digital audio workstation software, not a cut-down LE version. It's an integrated solution - one manual and install DVD with software that's pre-configured for the hardware. Just install the software, plug-in the hardware, then start making music. The package also includes helpful video tutorials to get you started.

SONAR Power Studio is compact, sturdy and bus powered, which makes it ready to record wherever and whenever you want. It's the first integrated recording hardware and software to support Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions), and it also supports Windows XP.

Together with Danish sample specialist Thomas SkarbyeScarbee and impulse response expert Ernest Cholakis, Alicia Keys has created a virtual piano that meets her professional standards and embodies the soulful sound that has become her trademark as a superstar. This is the piano sound that has helped Miss Keys win multiple Grammys and reach the top of the charts.

ALICIA'S KEYS was sampled from her own playing with her very own Yamaha­™ C3 Neo grand piano.

SESSION STRINGS to new heights of quality and detail, SESSION STRINGS PRO is20 times bigger with refined workflows, separate instrument groups, a choice of instrument placements, 29 articulations and precise control. SESSION STRINGS PRO is far more than just a string library. Creating natural, expressive string tracks in the highest possible quality has never been more immediate, or more rewarding. Product type KOMPLETE Instrument For use with Free KONTAKT 4 PLAYER, KONTAKT 4, free KOMPLETE 7 PLAYERS, KOMPLETE 7, KOMPLETE ELEMENTS Sound category Studio strings Size 48 GB of samples (32 GB compressed, using the KONTAKT Lossless Sample Compression format. Requires 32 GB of free hard disk space) System requirements Requires version 4.2 or higher of the FREE KONTAKT 4 PLAYERorKONTAKT 4 Please also see theKONTAKT 4 PLAYER system requirements and theKONTAKT 4 PLAYER FAQ

With Audio Creator's virtual toolbox, you are just a click away from recording and editing audio; burning and ripping CDs; cleaning and converting albums to CD or MP3; encoding, tagging, and organizing your sound library; backing up your files to data CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray; and even publishing music to the Internet.

If you care about your audio, there is no better choice than Audio Creator. It's from Cakewalk, makers of the world's most popular music creation software, used daily by Grammy® winning musicians and producers.