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Anaheim, CA, Winter NAMM, Hall A, Booth 6700 (January 14, 2010) — Cakewalk announces 5 new releases at this years Winter NAMM 2010!

Boston, MA—Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces a feature packed upgrade for SONAR Producer, the leading choice in digital audio workstations and SONAR Studio the most powerful digital audio workstation in its price range. SONAR 8.5 continues to innovate with new capabilities including enhanced beat creation and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with stellar kits and patterns, an enhanced audio timing toolset, new multi-stage effect plug-ins for drums and percussion sounds and vocal tracks, engine optimizations and stability improvements, and many additional workflow and technological advances, notably Windows 7 compatibility.

CakewalkNet reviewer Rick Paul takes a look at the latest version of Cakewalk's flagship SONAR MIDI and audio production software.