Release date: Thursday, December 18, 2003

Cakewalk® Launches Dedicated Project5™ Website with Amazing Mobile Studio Giveaway

Boston, MA (December 18, 2003)—Cakewalk, developer of the world's best-selling music and sound software for Windows-based PCs, is pleased to announce the launch of www.Project5.com — a virtual community for the Project5 enthusiast. Project5.com was created to help electronic musicians take full advantage of the powerful Project5 Soft Synth Workstation by providing free tutorials and tips, drum kits, sampler banks, synth presets, and groove patterns.

Project5.com also provides an online community where users can exchange project files, synth patches, and patterns. Visitors can also read interviews and features with music technology leaders and Project5 artists.

To celebrate the launch of Project5.com, Cakewalk has teamed up with Alienware®, Edirol, Intel®, Native Instruments, and Roland to provide an opportunity to win a mobile recording studio worth over $7000. Prizes in the contest include an Alienware laptop featuring an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, software from Cakewalk and Native Instruments, and hardware from Roland & Edirol. Participants can enter the contest by visiting www.Project5.com and downloading the free Project5 trial version, or by registering their purchased copy of Project5 with Cakewalk at www.cakewalk.com. Entries for the contest must be received by January 31st, 2004. For complete contest rules visit www.Project5.com.

Cakewalk's award-winning Project5 Soft Synth Workstation is the cutting edge tool for next generation music production. Project5's dynamic interface combines the best of pattern-based and live-performance sequencing, with powerful looping tools — making users' compositions come to life faster than ever. Project5 comes loaded with inspiring synths and samplers, creative effects, and professional sample content. Combined with its support for industry-standard effects (DX & VST), synths (DXi & VSTi), samples (Akai, Kurzweil, LM4, SF, more), and audio hardware (ASIO, Direct Sound, WDM) users can customize and expand their workstation to meet their needs. Project5 has a $429 MSRP U.S.

About Cakewalk, Inc.
Cakewalk, Inc. is the world's leading developer of powerful, yet easy to use products for music creation and recording:

• Award-winning Digital Audio Workstations and Sequencers
• Integrated Music Hardware and Software Solutions
• Powered Stereo Monitors
• High-quality Digital Audio and MIDI Interfaces
• MIDI Keyboard Controllers
• Innovative Virtual Instruments and Effects
• Entry-level Consumer Products

Millions of musicians around the world choose Cakewalk products to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries. These customers include Grammy® and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers and engineers. We invite you to learn more about our company and products by visiting www.cakewalk.com.

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