Release date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Cakewalk® Announces FREE SONAR™ X1A Update for SONAR X1 Producer, Studio, and Essential Customers.

Boston, MA, (December 21, 2010)—Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces a free update for SONAR X1 Producer, Studio, and Essential. All registered SONAR X1 customers can download the free SONAR X1A update at Cakewalk.com.

In the interest of always striving to improve customer experience the SONAR X1 Update has been split into two parts. The first update, X1A, addresses many usability enhancements and overall stability issues across the entire application. The next update X1B, will address a number of additional issues based largely on customer feedback. Availability of the SONAR X1B update will be announced in the first quarter 2011.

It is our active dialog with our users that has helped make SONAR the World class product that it is today. Cakewalk's delivery of timely product updates is an extension of Cakewalk's commitment in providing the very best in product support for our customers.

A comprehensive list of what is included in the SONAR X1A update can be found at: http://www.cakewalk.com/support/kb/reader.aspx?ID=2007013216.

Availability
The SONAR X1A Update for SONAR X1 Producer, Studio, and Essential, in all supported languages and operating systems is available as a free download to registered customers at www.cakewalk.com.

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.

Cakewalk is a registered trademark and the Cakewalk logo, SONAR, and Music Creator are trademarks of Cakewalk, Inc. V-Studio is a trademark of Roland Corporation. Other trademarks mentioned are held by their respective owners. All specifications and appearances are subject to change without notice.