Dear All, We have officially released our CakeTalking access solution for Cakewalk SONAR version 5! Here's an excerpt from an E-mail that we've sent to customers whose E-mail addresses we have. If you did not receive the announcement and would like to be included in future mailings, please contact Mary Pat of Dancing Dots using her admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address. Feel free to forward this note to those who may be interested. Everyone at Dancing Dots appreciates the patience and strong support of our customers and colleagues during the past year as we've anticipated this day. We think you'll find access to SONAR 5 with CakeTalking was worth the wait! Important note: this release is for users of the English-language edition of Windows. A subsequent maintenance release will address some specific problems we have encountered with non-English Windows. Ok, here's that CakeTalking propaganda! If you want to skip it and go directly to the page where you can order here's the link: http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/CakeTalkingForSONAR.htm What Can CakeTalking for SONAR 5 do for You? Get you up and running quickly so that you can focus on creating and not practicing to be a techie! Record, mix and export your sound productions to various audio formats such as mp3, wave or Windows Media. CakeTalking's tutorial documents include lots of helpful information on configuring your digital audio workstation (DAW). These and all of CakeTalking's tutorial instructions are written first and foremost for the JAWS user who wants to work as independently and efficiently as possible. Cakewalk SONAR 5 is packed with all kinds of audio effects, such as the Pantheon Reverb, which you can apply to your performances. CakeTalking gives you access to the menus and controls that allow you to customize and tweak these effects to give your final mix your own personal sound. CakeTalking maximizes the time you spend working on your projects by providing hundreds of handy keyboard commands to keep you creating instead of trouble-shooting or typing your life away! A few examples: dedicated keystrokes to move you to individual tracks or columns, move back or ahead by 1 to 10 bars of music, add marker points and move to specific markers very quickly. Many SONAR users, blind and sighted, are discovering the benefits of adding a hardware control surface to their DAW. Control surfaces such as the TranzPort feature controls you can touch similar to the stop, record, rewind and fast forward buttons on your CD player. TranzPort has many controls which you can customize and even has an access scrub wheel to make editing unwanted noises out of your audio tracks a snap. Now CakeTalking can automatically give verbal confirmation when you perform many actions on your control surface such as muting or soloing a track or scrubbing to a new "Now Time". See http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/tranzport.htm for more on the TranzPort. For more information and to order CakeTalking for SONAR 5, please go to http://www.dancingdots.com/index.htm and select the "CakeTalking" link. You'll find links there to pages that contain information about other hardware accessories including a second, high-end soundcard you'll use with SONAR. Contact Dancing Dots to discuss your particular needs and we'll help you select the accessories that suit your situation. We also offer one-on-one and small group training. Go to http://www.dancingdots.com and select the "Training" link. Note: To run SONAR 5 and CakeTalking for SONAR 5, you must be using Windows XP Home or Pro and JAWS Standard or Pro version 6 or 7. See http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/jaws.htm to order JAWS or http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/jawssma.htm to upgrade your unit of JAWS. See http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/cw-ad.htm to upgrade your copy of Cakewalk SONAR or Pro Audio. Regards, Bill McCann Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992