pyro Audio Creator Info

For the most powerful, easy-to-use tools available for managing your digital music collection, you've come to the right place!

pyro Audio Creator 1.5 harnesses the technology of Cakewalk's award-winning SONAR digital audio workstation and makes it available in one simple-to-understand and dynamic software package. This suite provides 6 of the most essential tools you'll need to manage your digital music collection. With pyro Audio Creator, 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 publishing music to the Internet.

Availability and Pricing

Audio Creator 1.5 has manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $57; estimated street price is $39.99. It will also be available as a free download to existing, registered Audio Creator 1.0 customers starting mid-August, 2008. All Cakewalk Products are available at select consumer electronics and computer retailers including Target, Staples, Fry's Electronics, J&R Music & Computer World, Micro Center, and Amazon.com. For more information, visit www.cakewalk.com or call 888-CAKEWALK (617-423-9004 outside the U.S.).

Highlights of pyro Audio Creator

  • 1-click recording: capture musical performances, meetings, vinyl records, cassettes, podcasts, Internet broadcasts, and more
  • Professional 2-track audio editing: includes hiss and pop removal, volume control, crossfades, effects, and more
  • Encode, convert, and save audio to popular formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, and AIFF
  • Convert audio to formats for use with iTunes®, iPod®, Zune™, and other digital audio players
  • Digitize, clean, and organize your vinyl record and cassette collection
  • Rip your entire CD collection to a digital format
  • Instantly download song, album, and artist names for your CDs
  • Burn gapless audio CDs to share with family and friends; Audio Creator burns Redbook-compliant CDs
  • Create backup data CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray for safekeeping
  • Tag, rename, and organize multiple audio files all at once
  • Upload custom, streaming music players to share on MySpace, Blogger, and other web sites
  • Get started quickly with video tutorials

System Requirements

 
Minimum
Recommended
Operating System
Windows XP
Windows XP/Vista (32-bit mode only)
Processor Speed
Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz, or AMD™ Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T], or AMD™ Athlon 64 2800+or higher
RAM
256 MB
1 GB or higher
Graphics (resolution, color depth)
1024 x 768, 16-bit color
1280 x 960, 32-bit color
Hard Disk Space
100 MB for core program
2 GB
Hard Disk Type
Any
EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
Audio Interface**
Windows-compatible
WDM- or ASIO-compatible, including WaveRT for Vista
Optical Drive
CD-ROM required for installation. CD-R/RW drive required for audio CD disc authoring. DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW drive required for DVD burning. Blu-Ray (BD-R/RE) drive required for Blu-Ray burning. Double layer DVD+R or Dual layer DVD-R drive required for DVD-R DL burning.
Web Server Access***
Available web server space with FTP access privileges

** Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com/PCresource for a complete list of recommended audio devices
*** Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading. A broadband connection is recommended

Note: pyro Audio Creator does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, or XP x64 Edition.

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