Experience surround sound music making with Magix Music Maker 11 Delux

Johannesburg, 02 May 2006

Local distributor of video and streaming video peripherals, Edutain Distribution, and Magix AG, the market leader in providing easy-to-use software solutions and multimedia content, bring you the new Magix Music Maker Delux 11.

Magix Music Maker Delux 11 is the first consumer music software featuring full 5.1 surround sound integration (import, edit and export) and supporting the brand new Fraunhofer MP3 Surround format. The Magix Mastering Suite adds power to the newest edition of the software classic. Furthermore, the deluxe version includes Magix Elastic Audio easy for precisely post-editing vocals or other voices. Finished songs can be mastered and burned directly onto CD and DVD. For the first time the program and the included sound loops will be on DVD.

* True 5.1 surround sound: The first consumer music software to include 5.1 surround editing (incl. Original Fraunhofer MP3 Surround support).
* Mastering Suite: Impressive studio sound for everyone.
* Magix Elastic Audio easy: Professional audio editing: edit individual vices as easily as MIDI files, perfect for vocals and solo instruments.
* New look: Sleek, intuitive design for more fun making music.
* Harmony recognition: Displays chords and guitar tablature of popular songs; ideal for remixing and playing along.

The most important new features:

* NEW! Magix Mastering Suite: Impressive sound at the touch of a button. Studio sound with 4 mastering effects
* NEW! Harmony Recognition: Guitar tablature and chords of any song to play along immediately to popular songs
* NEW! Sample Tank 2 MX: Easy-to-handle sample player with amazing sounds
* NEW! Magix Elastic Audio easy: Powerful voice tool for correcting vocals and individual voices; includes automatic creation of choir voices (harmonizer) and voice tuning
* NEW! Real 5.1 Sound support: Import-edit-export
* NEW! More than 2 500 new soundloops, samples, effect templates, video clips and more.
* NEW! MP3 Surround: Supports the new Fraunhofer surround format
* NEW! 4-Band EQ: Parametric 4-band equaliser for precise fine-tuning
* NEW! Dream Room: Amazing studio reverb effect in stereo
* BETTER! Task Assistant: Tutorial videos and more for getting started quickly
* BETTER! Remix Maker 2.0 and Remix Agent 2.0: Even better remixes
* BONUS! BitMachine: Create lo-fi sounds like a digital music pioneer (with product registration only)
* NEW! MAGIX Music Manager: Record, archive and burn
* NEW! MAGIX Photo Manager: incl. Online Print Service and Online Photo Album

System requirements

Processor - Min. CPU speed 450MHz
Operating system - Microsoft Windows 200/XP
Random Access Memory - 64MB (128MB recommended)
Free hard disk space - Min 900MB
Graphic card - Min resolution 1024x768 with 16-bit high-colour
Soundcard - 16-bit soundcard (3D sound functionality with DirectSound3D compatible soundcard)

Edutain Distribution

Edutain Distribution provides the reseller channel in southern Africa with a total distribution solution for a mix of cutting-edge multimedia hardware and software products. The company has been successfully developing this through extensive advertising and marketing campaigns. New Media products were introduced to South Africa on the break of mass market MPEG video. Alien was the first company to initiate that market and has been instrumental in creating and increasing that market locally through a long-term awareness, education and implementation process. Several strategic partnerships have been formed with the major players in the broadcast and multimedia content and service providers arena paving the way for future technology developments.

Magix

Founded in 1993, pioneering German software company Magix specialises in providing software and multimedia content for digital video, photo and music editing. Magix is the European market and technology leader in personal rich media.

Besides the large Magix community that uses video, photo and music software either privately or semi-professionally, an increasing number of partners from the industry are discovering the advantages of multimedia communication, for themselves and for their customers.

Magix professional products have for years been the standard for numerous radio and TV broadcasters, with Magix Sequoia being particularly popular with many public media institutions. Renowned international bodies, including Sterling Sound (one of the most renowned mastering studios worldwide) and the Vienna Symphonic Library (the world`s largest orchestra sample library), rely on Magix products to maintain their leading positions within their industry.

Approximately 2 million Magix products were sold worldwide in 2003. The quality and cost-performance ratios of Magix products have also improved dramatically: Magix Personal Rich Media solutions have regularly been awarded honours and first prizes in renowned trade press product tests.

Magix helps beginners to explore and experience the world of digital communication with a wide range of easily accessible software solutions and multimedia content.

The Magix Product spectrum covers over 80 standard products as well as customised solutions for industry, broadcasting and professional audio applications.

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