Cakewalk Home Studio series has always been a trimmed down version of their flagship product at a more affordable price for the home studio owner. However, from looking at the feature set of this newest version, it certainly seems like an app that could satisfy most any home/project studio owner and many semi-pros as well.

Features:

While Sonar Home Studio does do everything you would expect, that being audio and MIDI recording, MIDI step-time sequencing, VST and DirectX plugin and instrument support, support for low-latency ASIO and WDM drivers as well as the old-school DirectSound drivers, it also does much more which one wouldn't typically expect out of such a program.

* It has a video playback window which allows the user to create sound tracks and add sound effects to a project. It supports AVI and MPEG video formats and will export video as well.

* It also has a music notation tool to allow the user to create and print musical scores.

* It allows export of mp3 and WMA audio for easy internet sharing.

* It contains a loop explorer to allow the user to find and use ACID-format loops quickly and easily, and comes bundled with a loop library.

* It comes bundled with a light version of Cakewalk Pyro to burn your music to CD.

* It also comes packed with a collection of tutorials to help you learn and understand the application, and get you up and recording quickly.

* Bundled with a collection of plugins that include chorus, delay, reverb, EQ and others (as stated earlier, 15 in total) it has enough to meet beginner's needs. Can also add any of hundreds of third party plugins with the previously mentioned VST and DirectX support.

* As mentioned earlier, the application packs instruments along with it as well including the Virtual Sound Canvas, Dreamstation and the Sfz SoundFont player. The VST and DirectX support also allows the user to add any third party VSTi or DXi as well.

* The user can use ReWire applications such as Reason, ReBirth, Project5, Kinetic and others with the ReWire support.

As seen in this article, Sonar Home Studio version 4 brings with it a whole batch of new features and functions. This new version can be an ideal choice for the new home studio owner that is on a limited budget but wants to buy a recording application that can help them in the short term, and be a good learning experience for upgrading applications later on.

Bring the professional power of SONAR to your home PC with new SONAR Home Studio Version 4. There is no better software for musicians taking the first step into digital recording. The newest member of the SONAR family comes with a comprehensive feature set that turns your computer into a multitrack recording studio, giving you everything you need to take your music from inspiration to finished CD.

SONAR Home Studio is built with the same core features as Cakewalk SONAR 4. Its intuitive tools make it easy to record, edit, mix, and arrange professional-quality music. It includes powerful tools; built-in instruments and effects; support for DirectX, VST, ReWire, and MFX instruments and effects; support for ACID format loops; and much more.

CloneDVD mobile converts your DVD movies quickly and easily into a format that your mobile equipment (Sony PSP, Apple iPod Video, iAudio X5, Creative Labs ZEN Vision, etc) can play. You can also convert your DVDs to other file formats, such as DivX, XviD, AVI, MP4, etc. With CloneDVD mobile you can put your favourite movies or TV series on your mobile video equipment and watch them wherever and whenever you want. Let the kids watch their favourite cartoons in the car.

Incorporating the user-friendly interface of Elby's CloneDVD and the well-engineered open source project FFmpeg as the conversion engine makes CloneDVD mobile a fast, easy-to-use and quality product that is very reasonably priced. Copying a DVD to your mobile video machine is achieved in a few mouse clicks and without the need to rip it to your hard-disk. Note that copying protected DVDs also requires AnyDVD.

Features:

- Convert movie DVDs to play on mobile video equipment like the Sony PSP, Apple iPod Video, iAudio X5, Creative Labs ZEN Vision, etc

- Convert movie DVDs to other file formats like DivX, XviD, AVI, MP4, etc.

- Utilises a high quality picture conversion engine

- Supports multi-angle movie DVDs

- Video Preview shows an overview of all selectable DVD titles

- Target size freely adjustable

- Supports chapter trimming

- Very easy to use: Our unique Filmstrip assistant will guide you step-by-step through all settings - easy for beginners

- Picture snapshots while converting

- Logging window available

- Stable, fast and does not require an ASPI driver

Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI differences.

Microsoft Windows may have got more advanced but the need for effective maintenance is greater than ever. If you don’t houseclean your computer system regularly the digital garbage that collects over time makes it slower and can even cause inexplicable errors – usually when you need them least.

With the reliability of 11 years of experience, Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6 makes Windows maintenance fast and easy – and it works for Windows XP just as well as it does for Vista. It keeps your Windows computer running as fast and smoothly as on the first day you bought it.

In addition to efficient Windows maintenance you also get a whole suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools that enable you to configure and tune your Windows computer so that it works exactly the way you want it to.

The WinOptimizer Toolbox

AntiSpy Module New!

Context Menu Manager New!

Hard Disk Defragmenter New Version!

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Alcohol brings new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in its class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program.

Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add in new features allowing it to maintain its position as a leading software package.

Changes in version 1.9.8.7117, 2008-11-23:

- NEW A.C.I.D Wizard "Alcohol Cloaking Initiative for DRM"

- NEW Add Context Menu in explorer for burning image file

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- NEW Latest SPTD layer version

- FIX Problem with some Drives Not showing correct manufacture ID of blank discs.

- FIX The incorrect 'Processor Info' display on some Operating systems, especially for Core 2 Dual new processors

- FIX addressed some blacklisting problems

- FIX Bugs reported by some users

- UPDATE Some language files

- UPDATE Devsupp additional support for more drives

Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and then just call them up at the click of a button and run them at 200X the speed of some CD drives when you need them without requiring the CD itself. How about being able to make a backup of that CD on to another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you've made of it. This is what Alcohol allows you to do and much more.

DAEMON Tools Pro - is professional version of DAEMON Tools, which is the worldwide most popular application for CD/DVD multimedia emulation and proven and tested by tens of millions users throughout the whole world. DAEMON Tools Pro is now capable to make CD/DVD images. You can protect your virtual CD/DVDs with a password.

- Want to avoid risk of scratching or losing your favorite computer games CD/DVD discs?

- Want to load and play your games faster?

DAEMON Tools Pro converts your computer games CD/DVD discs into "virtual discs" or so called 'disc image' files, which run directly on your hard drive. This protects original CD/DVD discs from loss, theft, and damage, plus a virtual disc has much better access rates than a physical CD/DVD disc in a physical CD/DVD ROM drive because the reading speed of a virtual CD/DVD-ROM is 200x faster compared to normal CD/DVD drive.

No more CD/DVD drive noise. DAEMON Tools enabling you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD. With DAEMON Tools Pro you would receive up to 32 virtual drives that behave just like the "real" physical CD/DVD drives.

DAEMON Tools Pro works under Windows 2000/XP/Vista with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI/USB/IEEE1394) and supports nearly any CD/DVD media type.

Super Utilities - Make your computer run faster, safer, with greater privacy and security. With only a few minutes of tweaking, Super Utilities will optimize the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs.

Super Utilities (for Windows9x/ME/NT/XP/2000/2003) is a collection of tools to fix, speed up, and maintain your PC! These utilities include Disk Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Uninstall Plus, StartUp Manager, Folder Guard, Tracks Washer, Driver Backup, Auto Shutdown, Windows Manager and Process Manager. With a cool and user-friendly interface makes it easy for anyone to use Super Utilities.

Active@ UNDELETE - Data Recovery v.7.0

file undelete and data recovery program for NTFS & FAT32 / FAT volumes.

Active@ UNDELETE - Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery software that helps you to recover deleted files, lost and formatted data from hard drives, floppy disks, basic and dynamic volumes, hardware or software RAID.

Software supports: NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS file systems and works under all Windows family operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP and Windows VISTA.

Besides hard disk drives program supports recovery from removable devices like Secure Digital, Compact Flash, SmartMedia, SONY Memory Stick, ZIP drives, USB Hard drives etc ...

Active@ UNDELETE Professional package contains a CD/DVD ISO image that you can burn to get a bootable CD, DVD or USB Flash with a lightweight version of Windows Vista © running in RAM (WinPE 2.0).

It is the only way to recover your data in the case that your system is not bootable and you cannot attach the damaged Hard Disk Drive to another computer. After booting from the CD/DVD you will see a Windows environment with Networking, so you can either just recover your data (copy files to a USB drive or Network drive). Many other useful utilities are included besides data recovery utilities: Web Browser, File Manager (similar to Window Explorer), Terminal Client, Partition Manager, Notepad, Task Manager, Command Prompt, Network Drive Mapper, etc...

Active@ UNDELETE Enterprise package includes all features of Professional package as well as RAID and Network functions.

Elaborately designed for multi-level game players, GAME-CLONER enables you to play various kinds of games, PC games or TV games, CD games or DVD games, whatever they are!

Features:

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