[Please forward as appropriate] Everybody at Dancing Dots has a lot to celebrate: it's spring in Valley Forge (Birds, bees, flowers and trees!), we're releasing an excellent new update to our CakeTalking for SONAR product (download details below), and our star customer, Raul Midon, has just been featured in the Wall Street Journal! You can share in the fun by upgrading your SONAR and CakeTalking by May 28 and saving 20 percent. For Wall Street Journal online: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258444254422092.ht ml?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_9 You must order by May 28, 2010, to get that 20 percent discount. Go to http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/CakeTalkingOrdering.htm for details on our Spring Celebration Sale on upgrades. News of Latest Release Cakewalk fixed some bugs with the AudioSnap feature in their SONAR 8.5.3 update. This newest version of CakeTalking for SONAR gives you access to those fixes and all of the power of AudioSnap. Of course, the CakeTalking tutorial helps you understand all about AudioSnap and how to use it to polish up your audio. Check out Lesson 51. CakeTalking works much better now with the Studio Edition of SONAR 8.5. You'll also get improved access to SONAR's V Vocal utility that lets you touch up the pitch on vocal and instrumental performances. Other improved features: * Nudging audio *Access to SONAR's Inspector pane * Press F5 4 times to move to any hour-minute-second-frame in your project. * Displaying Meter levels with Control Shift F2 is faster and more reliable. CakeTalking users can still access the Matrix feature of SONAR 8.5. Matrix allows you to assign various loops to a particular key on your MIDI controller. Then you can use those loops to easily build your project. The CakeTalking tutorial has an entire lesson to help you get started. This release also contains some corrections and other additions to the tutorial and a number of useful bug fixes. To learn more about CakeTalking in general, go to www.DancingDots.com and follow the "CakeTalking" link. DETAILS AND UPDATE PROCEDURES The update to CakeTalking for SONAR 8.5.3 is CakeTalking 8.5.68. You must first download and install the SONAR 8.5.3 update patch before you can install CakeTalking for SONAR 8.5.68. You will find the SONAR 8.5.3 update patch at: http://www.cakewalk.com/support/kb/reader.aspx?ID=2007012920 Customers who already have CakeTalking for SONAR 8.5 installed should do the following to update to latest CakeTalking: Close all programs. Start Menu | Programs | CakeTalking for SONAR 8.5 | CTWebUpdate Follow the prompts to down load latest CakeTalking. Bill McCann Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992 www.DancingDots.com Tel: [001] 610-783-6692 Option 1 PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq