Make your creative dreams a reality and achieve polished, professional recordings from your home computer with Cakewalk's 'Music Creator 5' No previous recording experience required! Music Creator 5 guides you through initial set-up, making it easy for you to plug in your instrument or microphone and immediately start recording. Get professional sounding results using Music Creator's powerful tools, instruments, and effects. Creating music on your PC has never been this easy, fun, or affordable; all from Cakewalk, makers of the #1 selling music software in the world.

Technical Specifications:

- Up to 160 total tracks (32 audio and 128 MIDI)
- Professional 24-bit audio quality
- Create backing tracks fast using the Loop Explorer
- Play and record using hundreds of high-quality instrument sounds from the included Cakewalk Sound Center and the Roland® TTS-1
- Add drum beats to your songs with Studio Instruments Drums
- Get a studio-quality sound with 10 effects including IK Multimedia Amplitube® X-GEAR amp simulator, EQ, Delay, Compressor, Reverb, and more
- Add more instruments and effects with support for DirectX, VST, and ReWire
- Print lead sheets and notation; publish music to the internet; and burn CDs for fans, family, and friends

System Requirements:

- Minimum Recommended Operating System: Windows XP (32-bit) / Vista (32-bit)

- Processor Speed: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher
Intel® Core 2 Duo E7400 (2.8 GHz) or AMD Athlon X2 3600+ or higher

- RAM: 1 GB / 2 GB or higher

- Hard Disk Space: 500 MB+ for core program
6 GB for program and content

- Video resolution: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
1280 X 960, 32-bit color

- Hard Disk Type: Any EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA

- MIDI Interface*: Windows-compatible

- Audio Interface**: Windows-compatible

- Optical Drive***: DVD-ROM, DVD+ / -RW for installation / CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning

- Internet Access***: Any active internet connection Broadband or other high speed internet connection

- Web server access****: Available web server space with FTP access privileges

- Download version: The download version ships in 2 files. The main program (320 MB) and Cakewalk Sound Center (214 MB).


Features:

Boxed Version, Download Audio Loops, Over 250 loops, MIDI Groove Clips, Over 300 MIDI Groove Clips, Cakewalk Sound Center Expansion Pack, 150 instrument sounds, 50 instrument sounds, Studio Instruments, Drums Expansion Pack, 47 new programs, 65 new patterns, 17 new programs, 50 new patterns, Tutorial / Demo Projects, On disc, Available on Music Creator 5 Owners page.

Notes:

*Required to connect external MIDI devices
**Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com / PCresource for a complete list of recommended audio devices
***An internet connection is required for viewing online video tutorials and for uploading music.
****Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges.

Note: Music Creator does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or NT. QuickTime support requires QuickTime 7 or higher. Music Creator 5 is presented on DVD media. DVD-ROM, DVD+ / -R or DVD+ / -RW drive required for installation.