Buy Sony CD Architect 5.2

Price: $30

Review:
Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with CD Architect™ 5 software. Newly updated version 5.2 includes CD text reading and writing, and updated drive support. Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge® software as tracks, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirectX® effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.
CD Architect software provides the most precise audio CD mastering and burning tools available. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes – even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.

Buy Sony ACID Pro 6

Price: $100

Review:
Music Creation Reformulated
In the world of digital music creation, ACID Pro software has always stood out from the crowd. Its automatic loop time-stretching and tempo-matching technology is second-to-none, and its straightforward pick, paint, and play functionality has helped make ACID Pro software the favorite loop-based music creation tool for millions of users worldwide. Now reformulated to add multitrack recording and full MIDI sequencing to its superior looping functionality, ACID Pro 6 software delivers a new formula for ground-breaking music creation: loops + multitrack + MIDI. Together, these key components add up to a full-featured professional music workstation unlike any other.

Innovative Loop-Based Music Creation
ACID Pro software has been the leader in loop-based music creation for nearly ten years. Version 6 has all of the core ACID Pro features—automatic pitch and tempo matching, real-time loop previewing, unlimited tracks, and our signature pick, paint, and play interface—and new enhancements such as support for multiple media events per track, and automatic crossfades. ACID Pro 6 software also includes over 1,000 Sony Sound Series loops so you can start creating music right out of the box.

Multitrack Audio and MIDI Recording
For uncompromising 24-bit, 192kHz sound quality production live or in-studio, ACID Pro 6 software has an expanded set of features for maximum audio performance. Whether you’re on stage tracking a combo, or recording MIDI-based studio sequences, ACID Pro 6 software is the optimal platform for reliable multitrack production: on-the-fly punch in/out, unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI, control surface support, powerful plug-in processing, and 5.1 surround mixing.

Comprehensive MIDI Support
ACID Pro 6 software has unparalleled support for MIDI sequencing, with real-time MIDI processing and precise control over MIDI events. All note and controller data can be recorded and edited on the timeline as easily as audio tracks. Use new track envelopes to automate and modify modulation, expression, or other types of MIDI controller data over time. Other new features let you record multiple tracks of MIDI, apply real-time MIDI quantization, perform filtering and processing, create and edit drum patterns.

Superior Mixing and Editing
Nondestructive editing, unlimited tracks, and real-time pitch and tempo matching—ACID Pro 6 software has all of the essentials. ACID Pro 6 software includes our patent-pending Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization tools, real-time event reverse, freehand envelope drawing, and support for alternate time signatures. Our unique Beatmapper tool makes remixing easy, and the Chopper tool helps you create impressive drum fills, stutters, and DJ-style effects.

Professional Effects and Soft Synth Support
Expand your sound palette with native support for VST instruments, as well as VST and DirectX audio plug-ins. ACID Pro 6 software includes the Native Instruments KOMPAKT Sony ACID Pro edition and over 20 DirectX effects. Create resonant sweeps, dramatic fades, EQ changes and add effects with parameter automation. Integrate ACID Pro 6 software with your existing studio: full ReWire host and device support, ASIO, and control surface automation for devices such as the Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort.

Exclusive Quantization Tools
Transform loops and MIDI tracks into fresh, new sounds with our exclusive Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization tools. Change the groove of a track, apply different grooves to the same track, extract a groove from one file and apply it to another, or even create custom grooves.

Professional Workflow Features
The Media Manager is a powerful way to tag, organize, and search your collection of content. Use new project sections to quickly audition different arrangements of a project. Maximize efficiency with folder tracks and cluster editing. Use the convenient Clip Pool to easily choose and arrange the events you want to use in your compositions. Place multiple media clips on one track—automatic crossfades tie everything together. Deliver projects in nearly any format without leaving the ACID Pro 6 environment: integrated DAO CD burning, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVI, MOV, MP3, MPEG-1 & MPEG-2*, OGG, PCA, RM, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV.

Included with ACID Pro 6 software
ACID Pro 6 software includes a custom edition of Native Instruments KOMPAKT. This full-featured VSTi sample playback engine comes bundled with over 120 instruments—a US $200 retail value!

Buy Smith Micro Poser 7

Price: $90

Review:
Poser provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art, creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.
With Poser, you can design using the human form for art, illustration, comics, pre-viz/storyboarding, medical visualization, animation, architecture and education – essentially everywhere your creative mind may take you as you design for print, video, film, or web!

Features
*Complete 3D Figure Design – Create any figure imaginable using Poser’s powerful 3D toolset. Scale and manipulate individual body parts, modify facial expressions, customize ethnicity, add clothing and props, and pose your figures down to the finest detail.

*Powerful Rendering Capabilities – Poser’s powerful FireFly render engine delivers high-quality artistic effects for creating extraordinary, professional renders with natural lighting, shadows, reflections and refractions. Customize your final output in many styles, including photorealism, sketch, cartoon, silhouette and more.

*Animation Controls – Poser’s animation tools are designed to help you create stunning, realistic animations without much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Poser includes automatic keyframe creation, non-linear animation, lip-syncing and a walk simulator to simplify the animation process.

*Dynamic Hair and Cloth – Dynamic props move with your figure and add realism to your animations. Clothing drapes and deforms just as it should in real-life over a human figure, while hair can be grown, styled and controlled dynamically as if blown by the wind.

*Loaded With 3D Content – Poser includes high resolution male and female figures, children, animals, cartoons, robots, and more – over 80 fully textured figure models in all. Hundreds of poses, facial expressions, full body morphs, hair, clothing, light sets and props are also included so you can get started fast. Plus, sound and motion files included add life to your figures and scenes.

*New Content – Poser 7 comes with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content. Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures, plus loads of exclusive third party content, new wildlife, new motion capture data, light sets, poses, materials, and lots more.

*Lip Syncing – Using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! Talk Designer will work with Sydney and Simon, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures.

*Multiple Undo and Redo – Return to earlier poses and designs, and step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Poser 7’s Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.

*Multi-Threaded Rendering and HDRI Support – Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering (up to four threads) on machines with multiple CPUs. Poser 7 creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image Based Lighting and textures.

*Non-Linear Animation – Use Poser 7’s new Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out.

*Brush-like Morphing Tools – Poser 7’s new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool.

Buy SmartSoft SmartFTP Home 3.0

Price: $20

Review:
SmartFTP is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. With its many basic and advanced features SmartFTP also offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool.

Buy Runtime Revolution Enterprise 2.9

Price: $50

Review:
Revolution Enterprise is the efficient, no-compromise authoring environment for mission-critical applications.
Join a community of professional developers taking Revolution to its limits. Connect with enhanced security to more types of systems. Author on any supported platform.

Features
*Create standalone applications for any platform with native appearance and behaviors
*Fully-featured, English-like programming language with 1596 commands and functions
*Extensible with code libraries and compiled externals you write yourself or obtain from third parties
*Integrated connectivity for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Valentina databases
*Ability to automate system functions and “office” applications
*Embedded web browsers
*Powerful libraries for manipulating Internet protocols, XML, compression, encoding/decoding
*Flexible chunk expressions, regular expressions, arrays, and sorting functions for manipulating data
*Complete printing and reporting facilities for professional output
*Ability to run as CGI process on web servers
*Comprehensive documentation library including 27 “Quick Start” tutorials and videos; 78 sample scripts and code snippets, 13 example stacks, 377-page user guide
*Author on and deploy standalone applications to Mac, Windows and Linux with native appearance and behaviors
*Integrated connectivity for Oracle databases
*Support for encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
*Two “silver” support incidents per license year
*Access to pre-release developer builds
*Access to exclusive Enterprise mailing list
*Monthly “Insider” bulletins
*Fully-featured, English-like programming language with 1601 commands and functions

Buy Roxio Creator 2009 Ultimate

Price: $50

Review:
Roxio Creator 2009 Ultimate is the only complete digital media software that lets family members of every age and experience level to easily create, preserve, and share their stories and passions.

Buy Roxio Copy & Convert 3

Price: $20

Review:
With Roxio Copy & Convert 3 you choose exactly how you want to enjoy your movies and music. It includes everything you need to copy, backup, and convert your favorite movies and music to play on portable media players, mobile phones, the web, CD, or DVD. All within a single intuitive interface!

Features
*Copy DVD movies to disc or PC, with selected chapters, languages, and subtitles
*Convert your source movie to popular video formats including DivX, MPEG-2, WMV, MPEG-4, H.264, MP4, DVD-Video and more
*Convert movies to mobile phone ready 3GP
*Supported input formats include MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264-AVC, 3GP, TS, DVR-MS, TiVo, MOV, DVD-Video, WMV, DivX
*HD Video Support
*Add high-quality menus to your DivX and DVD compilations
*Automatically rip music CDs or select individual tracks to transfer to the PC
*Rip audio tracks from multiple drives simultaneously (Parallel Ripping)
*Convert your source audio to popular formats including MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A (iTunes), OGG Vorbis, and more
*Perform batch conversion of audio tracks from one format to another
*Automatically rename files and move them into folders according to title, artist and other tag information
*Copy & convert movies and music directly to PSP, iPod or Windows Media devices
*Convert movies to DivX and Zune compatible formats
*Copy movie & music compilations to CD or DVD
*Make backup copies of your data, movie and music DVDs and CDs
*Create Disc Index for easy access to disc’s contents
*Create custom labels for your DVDs and CDs
*Create disc images files and load them as if they were physical discs to save battery and disc wear and tear
*New! LabelFlash support
*Make professional looking labels, inserts, sleeves and case covers for CDs and DVDs
*LightScribe support
*Smart objects with Auto-filling
*Objects can contain text, shapes or graphics
*Serial number object increments automatically
*Access online music database to populate audio CD labels
*Add picture index
*Printer calibration

Buy QuarkXpress 8 MAC

Price: $120

Review:
Inspired by the designer’s passion for perfection, QuarkXPress® 8 complements the way creative professionals work. Strive to do better and constantly improve — employ page-layout and design software developed to help get you there.
Excitement
Work faster and design more with fewer clicks using the modern, intuitive interface of QuarkXPress 8.
Control
Create stunning text and achieve the effects you want with designer-driven typography.
Adventure
Build on your existing expertise — share your print content across media with built-in Web and Flash authoring tools. No additional purchase or coding required!
Work faster and smarter: Design more precisely with enhancements to features you rely on every day.
Publish globally: Choose among dictionaries and hyphenation in more than 30 languages, open and print a QuarkXPress 8 file created anywhere in the world, or tap into easy-to-use, professional-grade Asian typography.

Buy QuarkXPress 8

Price: $120

Review:
New Picture and Pen Tools
Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress® 8.
Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool — no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!
Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool — just like you do in Illustrator® and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we’ve separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.

Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop
Little things make a big difference — we think you’ll love the way we handle drag and drop.
Design as quickly and fluidly as your ideas. When you move your text or picture content to the page, the box is automatically created — no need to pre-define boxes!
You can drag text and pictures from your desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iP®, or any other application that supports drag and drop, and your box is created for you. You can even drag picture boxes from QuarkXPress to your graphics application to customize your images.

Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls
We’ve streamlined and simplified our Tools palette, so the tools do more and it’s easier to choose the right one. Even familiar tools like the Item and Content tools get major boosts. For example, you can rotate any box simply by grabbing its corner.
You’ll also enjoy single-key commands — consistent with familiar applications such as Photoshop® — to select tools, as well as keyboard modifiers for duplicating, scaling from center, and performing other common tasks.
By aligning with your other mission-critical tools, while keeping everything you love, QuarkXPress gives you the best of both worlds!

Buy QuarkXPress 7.3 Passport

Price: $120

Review:
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