Music Creator 5

Cakewalk Music Creator 5 [DVD]

Bring your music to life with professional-sounding punch for your listeners to enjoy. With Music Creator 5, recording, transcribing and printing your very own music is easy. The program's user-friendly interface makes it simple to unleash your creativity and get started recording your songs quickly. From vocals to instruments to drum beats, Music Creator 5 gives you the power to customize your sound and create impressive recordings to share with friends, family or the entire world.

With Music Creator 5, you have the ability to record, notate, publish, play, edit and more. Plug your guitar, keyboard, microphone or other instrument in to your computer's sound card to record in up to 24-bit audio quality, and access a huge library of instrument sounds to set up, play and record virtual instruments. Transcribe your compositions with the notation tools, including the Staff View for creating guitar chords and tablature, and create playlists you can burn to CDs or use with online music players that can be uploaded to favorite Web sites. Customize your sound with a simple yet powerful onscreen mixer, and enhance your recording know-how with a variety of comprehensive online tutorials and videos.

Features

• Record up to 160 total tracks, including 32 audio and 128 MIDI, and create backing tracks using the Loop Explorer
• Plug in a guitar, keyboard, microphone or other instrument to record audio in up to 24-bit quality
• Access 150 different instrument sounds in the Cakewalk Sound Center, including acoustic and electric guitars, basses, drums, pianos, synths and ethnic sounds
• Create hard-hitting drum beats with Studio Instruments Drums
• Enhance your guitar sound with Amplitube X-GEAR, which provides access to amps, effects, mic models, cabinets and a tuner and lets you create and save custom tones as presets
• Mix up your sound by moving faders up and down, panning tracks left and right and adding studio-quality effects like Reverb, Delay and EQ
• Connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer to take advantage of Active Controller Technology, which lets you control your mix with real knobs and sliders
• Record, transcribe and print your own sheet music, and use the Staff View to create guitar chords and tablature
• Use your mouse to edit projects, whether cutting out mistakes, assembling a perfect track from multiple recordings or dragging and dropping to make new arrangements or remixes
• Burn CDs for friends and family, or create customized playlists to publish online