MAGIX ANNOUNCES MUSIC MAKER 11 DELUXE WITH WORLD'S
FIRST MP3 SURROUND SOUND &
HARMONY AGENT
Recognizes Musical Harmonies and Automatically
Displays Them as Guitar Chords
May 5, 2006, Miami, FL '“
MAGIX, a worldwide leader in music and video editing software1, announced today the new version of MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe. MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe is the world's first consumer software to recognize musical harmonies and display
them onscreen automatically as guitar chords. Great for amateur musicians and consumers
alike, Music Maker 11 deluxe provides real 5.1 surround sound and the world's first MP3 Surround Sound for the ultimate sound
quality on any speakers. MAGIX
Music Maker 11 deluxe will be available in the beginning of May in retail stores
and at www.magix.com priced at $59.99.
New Easy-to-Use Smart Interface &
Features
MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe
features an all-new easy-to-use 'smart" interface for improved ease-of-use and
more advanced features and functions for post-editing and mastering
power.
World's First 'Harmony
Agent"
Playing along to favorite
songs on a guitar is not always as easy as it seems. But that's where the fun and joy of
playing music really begins. With
Music Maker 11 deluxe, MAGIX launches the world's first 'Harmony Agent," which recognizes music and automatically finds the chords of the song,
displaying them on the screen.
Simply upload your music file into MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe and the
Harmony Agent will automatically analyze the music and display the guitar chords
for you to play along.
MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe
is also the first consumer music software with full 5.1 Surround Sound
integration (import, edit, and export), supporting the new Fraunhofer MP3 surround format.
The impressive software
offers new features:
- MAGIX Mastering Suite lets anyone mix perfect CDs every
time.
- MAGIX Elastic Audio Easy makes post-editing of vocals a snap.
- MP3 Surround Sound.
- Professional-level 'Sample Player" assists in sampling
the highest-quality sound.
- New and optimized
effects.
- Master and burn finished songs directly onto CD or
DVD.
- Harmony Agent finds chords of songs.
- Smart Interface for
ease-of-use.
MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe
will be available in the beginning of May in retail stores and at www.magix.com priced at $59.99.
About MAGIX
MAGIX is an
international provider of software, online services and digital content for the
use of multimedia products and services in personal communication. MAGIX provides private and professional
users with a range of technologically sophisticated and at the same time
user-friendly software, online services and digital content for the design,
editing, presentation and archiving of digital photos, videos and music. MAGIX's products are principally
directed at private users. Moreover, MAGIX licenses professional software to
commercial users such as music producers and television and radio broadcasting
companies. In 2005, based on sales
of products through retail distribution of photographic, music and video
software, MAGIX held a leading market position in Germany and various other
European countries, and was one of the three leading market players in the
USA.
1
Refers to the amount of software products sold by European and US retailers in
the segments 'Photo Software", 'Video Software" and 'Music Software". According
to the monthly measurement by NPD Data Charts US, Media Control
Germany(PC/CD-ROM non-games), GfK charts Benelux, France, Spain, Italy; Chart
Track UK. MAGIX sold more products than any other publisher in this segment in
the time period from January 2005 to March
2006.
Source: MAGIX
