Features

• A fun and educational PC video game that will have you playing your piano or keyboard in virtually minutes
• Turns piano practice into a game with vibrant colors, multiple game choices and instant gratification for kids
• Package includes 49-note full size keyboard with cable, 100 songs and lessons and colored stickers
• Runs on a variety of Windows systems, including Windows 98SE/Millennium/XP/2000

Reviews (1)

Keyboard compatibility - be aware!
Be aware, before buying this product, that the Piano Wizard software is not compatible with at least two widely available models of Yamaha keyboards. The company does not specify this on their website but admitted it in an email when my system did not work. I had to buy a different keyboard.Check with the Piano Wizard company before investing in a keyboard.
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Features

• CD-ROM
• Toast 6 Titanium: CD and DVD burning software for Mac OS X
• Jam 6: DJ-style mixing and mastering software
• Bias Peak Express: powerful stereo editing software
• Dolby Digital Sound: Hollywood-standard encoding and decoding software
• DVD Music Album: hours of music on a single DVD

Reviews (6)

Toast with Jam
Have only started to use it but so far... I have had problems and will now have to consult their manual to see if its fixable... Operating the program intuitively and from experience from past versions, I was disappointed to see the first CD I burned which should have contained about 18 songs did NOT record several tracks.. could be my fault but I didn't do anything differently to the tracks which did record as opposed to the tracks that didn't record but did take up space on the burned CD.. back to the drawing board..

NO Customer Support and Required Registration
I bought the product from Amazon.After installing this product, I tried to install the updates only to find out that I have to register the product in order to install their bug fixes.So after typing in their long registration code, it wouldn't accept it because it said it was for Toast and not for Toast with Jam.The box had not code for Toast with Jam, only one for Toast and one for Jam.There is no technical support.No apparent way to e-mail them for technical support.If there is a way, they have hidden it very well.
The DVD Music Album alone is worth the high price...
The DVD Music Album feature has allowed me to start consolidating all of my live recordings onto DVDs.I've burned two so far, one with 8 CDs and one with about a dozen or so CDs.The only reason I did not give the full five stars is that I've had two DVDs "coastered" during a failed burn.When it comes to burning audio, TwJ is far superior to iTunes. ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Quick Launcher and step-by-step creation wizard
• Supports most video file formats
• Edit and combine individual frames
• Burn up to 8.5 GB of video onto DVD +R DL Disc
• Audio gap correction/volume change/fade-in, fade-out

Reviews (1)

Great for any beginner
I bought this for my office to edit videos from a DVD recorder. So right off the bat I was happy that it has a function to import video straight from a DVD. In addition it can convert most any video to mpeg and is fairly quick. There are some handy video editing features such as color correction and de-interlace. It also has a menu creator but only uses about 5 templetes but you can choose alternate image backgrounds. Also it burns to DVD video and has the ability to burn data DVDs. It does not copy data DVDs but otherwise is a fully functioning program for any novice. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Surething's full-faced matte CD labels are designed to help you make professional-looking CDs or DVDs using your home or office printer. The 8.5-by-11-inch sheets have a white matte finish with a high absorption surface to help give your CDs look their best. These full-faced labels cover the CD's inner hub, providing 15% more area than traditional labels. Each of the 50 sheets provides two CD labels and four jewel-case spine labels, a total of 100 CD labels and 200 spine labels. These labels are compatible with both inkjet and laser printers. ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Optimized paper stock makes your inkjet & laser-printed labels look high-quality
• Full-faced labels let you design right to the center of the CD
• Choose from hundreds of templates to create the CDs you've always wanted
• Includes applicator, 100 CD labels, and 200 jewel case spine labels

Features

• Inside iLife ‘06 will take you through all the applicationsin the iLife collection: iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, iMovie HD,Garage Band and the new iWeb.

Features

• CD-ROM
• Easy-to-use home video editing software
• Over 700 effects, video frames, and graphics
• Compose thousands of soundtracks with auto music maker
• Capture from all camcorders; share on DVD, tape, and the Web
• Includes video tutorial, samples, and 180-page manual

Reviews (19)

Good For Basic Home Movies
This is a pretty good product for BASIC home video. However, in most cases Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is the way to go. Ulead VideoStudio 8 lacks in creative titles, credits, and can only be used for reasonably short movies without rapidly slowing down the process. The only way it can be used over Windows Movie Maker is that VideoStudio 8 can be used with Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and Real Player while Windows Movie Maker only accepts Windows Media.

Out of Synch.
This product takes over the whole of the PC desktop and blocks access to any other program while it is running (which might be reasonable if the PC processor will only cope with one program at a time which is not the case with most up-to-date PC's)The authoring and burning program results in audio out of snych in every case with clips of any reasonable length, other than a few seconds.(A half-hour clip of captured video will, when authored or burnt result is audio so 'out' that it is unwatchable).This does not seem to be correctable.I would not recommend this product.

videostudio
This program is bad. It has ok editing features but after i captured something and said stop capturing, the program did not let me capture more but only edit. Don't use this program. Period. ... Read more

Features

• Includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand music application
• Use iLife to have more fun with digital media
• Easily create professional-quality slideshows, music, movies, and DVDs
• Seamless integration--iLife applications work together better than ever before
• Single installer that updates all existing iLife applications

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Underwhelmed
When I received my iBook 12", I was extremely excited to bust out the iLife applications. I had heard a lot about them, and played around with them at Apple Retail Stores.
Garageband NOT unique to Apple.
Just to counter what one person said about "nothing comes close" on the PC. Garageband is simply Apple's version of Sonic Foundry's ACID, now owned by Sony, and you can download [...]
Not perfect but better than anything else
I have been a Mac User for almost 20 years and I have to say that this package is one of Apple's greatest achievements. To take so many different components (the one thing in common is the digital footprint of all the media involved) and make them work together so well.
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Features

• CD-ROM
• Finale Performance Assessment (FPA) – Create music for FPA in Finale
• Music Scanning with SmartScore Lite 3.0 by Musitek
• Exercise Wizard -- Instantly generates practice pieces -- for your entire band, orchestra, or choir.
• Free, downloadable Finale NotePad lets you share your Finale files with anyone – who can then print, play, edit and save!
• Create audio CDs of your Finale files (including MP3)

Reviews (3)

Still has some bugs
While you can get it to do what you want most of the time it still has some bugs (GPO playback) that will irritate you. For example after scoring a piano piece and playing it back two of the notes played for an oddly short duration as though staccato. Another time in a six measure repeat the first two violin notes played back about half volume during the repeat. If I adjusted the volume up using accents or note articulations then the two notes played loudly the first time through. While these types of bugs happen relatively infrequently, when they do happen, I find the only solution is to rescore from scratch and hope they don't show up again, or to score once for print and a second time for playback.
Great Sound!
The sound quality with this is incredible!I took songs I wrote on finale 2005 (I upgraded to 2006 for $100) and put them into 2006; it sounds SO MUCH BETTER.If you listen to it through headphones, you might as well be at a live performance!It's easy to notate and print (and it looks great)!It's well worth the money.Costumer support is nice and fixed many of my simple problems (that only had to do with my ignorance).

Finale is What? AWESOME!!!!
This is the absolute best music notation software out there--don't let the price scare you, it's worth every penny. It make beautiful and professional(this is what BIG music companies use--Hal Lenoard, Warner Bros. to name a couple)sheet music. Every musician, whether you're a teacher, student, or even a musician for a church or religious organization. You can do your own arrangements of music to FIT YOUR GROUP! ... Read more

Features

• CD Spin Doctor to listen to your classic LPs and tapes on your iPod.
• Audio Hijack to capture Internet radio programs and other audio for your iTunes library.
• iPodderX to subscribe to podcast audio blogs from thousands of broadcasters.
• MusicMagic Mixer to automatically generate perfect playlists from the songs in your iTunes library.
• iSpeak It to create your own audio books from documents, news feeds or web location.

Reviews (2)

Best iPod software
I have tried many different types of iPod software, and Boom Box is the best of them all.The Audio Hijack and CD Spin Doctor portions of the software are worth the $50 each by themselves.

2.5 stars for 2 1/2 good apps. Cool, but Music Magic Mixer is disabled.
When I heard that Roxio was making this software suite, I was thrilled and the reviews were great. If you actually buy your music from iTunes, though, those songs won't show up in the mix. Music Magic Mixer won't read them because they're in proprietary formats. This app would be much cooler if Apple hadn't caved in to the music industry. If you find a workaround for the copy protection, you're set for a great app that rediscovers your music collection for you. But that's illegal.
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Editorial Review

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Features

• CD-ROM
• Learn to play guitar with extensive tools, designed for all skill levels
• 10 original recordings, with full and simplified versions of each
• Playing tips
• Recorder lets you record and play yourself back
• Animated fretboard shows real-time display of notes

Reviews (4)

Mesmerizing!
There is simply no better way to learn these songs. You can isolate different sections of the music and loop them over and over (both the audio and the tab/notation). You can even slow it down. The animated fretboard is also very cool. It plays the notes in time with the music. It even bends the notes. I only wish they'd make more.

Poor user interface, technical problems
I spent about an hour getting this to work correctly. I am disappointed with the interface and the lack of lesson information.Not a bad product but there are better guitar programs for sure

Great fun but not for beginners
This is a wonderful CDRom.The songs are mighty enjoyable, and eMedia lets you see exactly how the blues greats created the toe-tapping music that they did.But be warned:learning to play these songs using the eMedia system isn't for rank beginners.I'm a classical guitar player with over a decade of playing experience, and I had to slow the songs to less than half their speed to even have a fighting chance of keeping up.You're expected to already know some blues techniques and have some accessories (e.g. a glass slide).Eventually, I know I'll get the hang of these songs and have a great time.But it's gonna take practice, practice, practice. ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Imports any DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, or analog/digital camcorder tapes
• Supports popular PC and online video file types - AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, ASF, WMV, DVR-MS, TIVO, VOB and many more
• Export directly to the iPod Video
• Organize your entire collection, including thumbnails and genres
• Create & overlay your own subtitles, right on top of the video

Reviews (1)

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Features

• CD-ROM
• Reads and writes AVI or DV video clips from virtually any editing tool, from Avid to Adobe Premiere to Final Cut Pro
• Includes a library of pre-rendered virtual sets and revolutionary features like virtual camera moves and video reflections within virtual scenes
• Achieve complex keys featuring smoke, glass and liquids with minimal effort
• One-click Set Key feature allows fast set up, for better videos with less tweaking
• High-quality vector keying technology works with uneven lighting, wrinkled backdrops and even frizzy hair

Features

• CD-ROM
• Complete, powerful, and easy-to-use home video-editing software
• Combine and enhance videos and photos; intuitive user interface
• Easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly
• Add titles, transitions, music, and special effects like pan-and-zoom
• Export movies with 1 click; preserve and share on DVD and the Web

Reviews (3)

Pinnacle has bad customer service
If you are upgrading from an earlier version to this one I would suggest NOT.Unless you want to purchase the transitions that you had in the previous version that will not work in the new version.
not worth it
This software took forever to download and once I got it installed, it wasn't two minutes before it starting locking up my computer. Some additional surprises you get once inside the product box and program; you find in the license agreement that you must pay extra to use some of the more special features although the features are already in the program, but not usable until you pay additional monies. Another ugly surprise is you only get one free customer support phone call but you still have to pay the long distance minutes. You need more help? It'll cost you long distance plus additional $25.00 charge per call. I wouldn't call that customer support, I'd call it customer gouge. Don't think the additional money is worth the initial investment. Will go elsewhere for a better product.

Buyer Beware
I bought Pinnacle Studio version 8 three years ago...then I upgraded to version 9...then I upgraded to version 10. With each purcha$e I hoped that Pinnacle was fixing all the bugs in their product. Apparently, they have just kept feeding the beast.
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Features

• DVD-ROM

Reviews (2)

Good Stuff!
I recommend this product to anyone who wants to get up to speed on InDesign. I have not finished it yet, but I have jumped to different sections to get the answer I needed quickly.

A MUST HAVE FOR ANY LEVEL USER!
I had no previous experience with page layout programs so I needed some expert guidance and boy did this DVD training from Total Training deliver. Steve Holmes is the instructor and he has to be the best training instructor I've ever watched and I've seen some good ones i.e. Deke McClelland, Jacob Rosenburg, Scott Kelby to name a few. His English accent and super smooth (no studder) voice is pleasing to listen too and his knowledge of the program is impeccable.
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Features

• Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine and REX file loop player
• New Reason 3 features include: The Combinator - Save sounds and patterns as a combination
• New MClass Mastering Suite - Pro level mastering software
• New Remote technology in Reason 3.0 offers true hardware integration!
• Mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more.

Reviews (11)

They charge four hundred bucks for 2 good synths.
Let me start off by saying that I haven't bought Reason.I am a user of FL Studio.I have, however, used Reason 3.0 extensively at my bandmate's house.I really like this program.If it were a plugin of some kind, I would give it 5 stars easily.However, it doesn't live up to it's price tag.
You are , you are the Reason
The above title is a line from a trance song . And it fits . Which means all the knobs and buttons which some people don't care for . But if you really want to be original , this software is deep . It did take time to figure things out , but it was worth it . Some people complain about some features it was lacking or hard to use . This is not Live 5 , Logic Pro or Digital Performer . This is a machine , as with any machine you have to get to know . Have patience or get the others , but you won't have as much fun .

So far, the best software that I've used.
I've went through many softwares for music composition, including but not limited to composer, sibelius, finale, etc. However, I'd like to say that this is the best program that I have seen so far. The visualizations you get with the software (it's like controlling all the different equipments but with your mouse instead of your hand) as well as the awesome sounds (compared to the other programs I've used/standard midi sound - I believe reason uses sample recordings of actual instruments... the keyboard sounds are especially good). I do agree that this software is geared towards more of electronica music than the 'classical' types; nevertheless, this program provides far superior sounds as well as so many 'built-in sound controls' so that you don't have to spend thousands of dollars on those expensive equipments (unless you're a professional studio musician.. who have the financial resources to afford it)
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Features

• All sounds and loops are available in the industry-standard uncompressed WAV format, guaranteeing highest quality
• 5,000 royalty-free digital quality samples from eJay's leading Music Creation titles
• Work with a full range of dance and techno styles - Euro Chillout, Dancehall, Breakdance, HipHop, R&B, Jazz, Ethnic, Rock, Brazil, Latin, Euro Pop and more
• eJay Sound Browser 2.0 helps you find samples easily
• Wave Editor makes modifying samples easy

Features

• CD-ROM
• Fun games that teach music
• Based on the best-selling book series
• Easy to learn and use
• For beginners of all ages

Reviews (1)

Fun activities at a great price.
A colorful, fun program for beginning students, especially for piano students. Includes activities to practice your existing knowledge of names of the piano keys, note names on the treble and bass staff, C major and G major scales, melodic intervals, musical terms, and counting in 4/4 or 3/4 time. No music theory instruction is given - just practice what you already know.The packaging I saw recommended for ages 7+, which seems about right; students using this software will need to be able to read (the directions are not spoken).Very affordable! ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Search the Internet for hundreds of online stations -- then record them directly to your PC memory
• Powerful recording tools let you capture audio from up to 8 stations at once
• Automatically deletes duplicate songs to save hard drive space
• Record music or talk from the Internet directly to your hard drive -- and add key information like song sname & title, for easier organization
• Rip, edit and convert your files with splits and fades, and convert freely between WMA, MP3 and WAV formats

Reviews (10)

Make sure you register.....
After forking over 50 for this garbage, installing and then not using for a while, I was prompted for an ID and pass code. WTF?! I did not spend my cash so I could monkey around with this, especially after tossing everything else..Ahhh, the utter nerve and greed of these companies.

Try before you buy
The testimonials scattered around the internet encouraged me to buy this product. After experiencing the product and having an unsatisfying interchange with their customer service, I am fairly sure that most of the testimonials are plants.
Songs blend together and files are truncated
The Audio Xtract program does exactly what it says it does, but there is a fundamental problem that everyone should be aware of.First, just like on commercial over-the-air radio, the music streams available usually 'blend' together such that one song fades out while the next fades in.This means that your recorded files will seldom have a clean start and beginning.Sometimes, there is even DJ banter that gets captured.The next problem is that the algorithm used to calculate when one song ends and the next starts appears to be imprecise.I've recorded songs that were off by as much as 10 seconds from where they should have started (and ended up having to combine them with adjacent files and re-split them manually).If you're looking for a good way to get radio-ized music, there is no better software than this.However, if you want clean songs with intact lead-ins and endings, you will seldom get that with this product.Sorry! ... Read more

Features

• CD-ROM

Reviews (13)

A pretty good product for home movie editing
I spent less than 5 hours to learn how to use this product, and afterward I understand the basics and start to edit my first DVD home movie with music background and everything runs smoothly.
EASY TO USE product
Great price and easy to use.It comes with a tutorial disc that teaches you visually how to use this product.So anyone who says they are "baffled" must not have used this disc.Bottom line, its an easy product to use.It's not going to give you something that resembles what you see on TV, with all the great special effects you might see in a commercial, movie, or TV program, but for what its designed to do - create home DVD's - this product works great.I created a 45 DVD on my nephew's first 5 years of life, added music, such as the theme to "Superman" and "Ghostbusters" (when showing clips from Halloweens of the past), along with graphics, and worth while transition effects.My family loved it.If you are looking for software to enhance your home movies, one word of warning however - you need to ensure you have a computer capable of handling this or any of these types of product.I have a very compatible computer (3.2 ghz, 200 gig, 512 mb ram, etc.) so I have no problem using this product.Lets put it this way, you computer might be in need of some costly upgrades if its older than 3 years and you want to use this product. Steep learning curve
I agree with other reviews here that this is about the best under $100 package for editing video. I've had my quibbles in the past with Ulead over their customer support, and I can't say if that's better now. It's been years since I called them (I stopped buying their software, essentially). But this software runs without freezing my PC, it works well, and it's got most of the bells and whistles.Read more

Features

• CD-ROM
• Use the powerful Outline or Timeline Views to get a stronger visual sense of your story
• Tracking tool helps you show connections between events and characters, objects or key words
• Customize StoryView to fit your personal writing style, or choose any of the pre-built templates
• Import a story or script that's been pre-written for deeper analysis
• Represent the size and duration of your story events and their importance with Event Boxes

Reviews (2)

Beware
I bought an earlier edition of this software and worked with it alot and was satisfied with the software itself. Unfortunately, the manual was apparently written by someone who had never used the software, and contacting the seller was totally wasted time; they refused to respond to any questions.I recently bought this new edition, hoping the problems had been solved over the past few years. No such luck.The manual is even worse than before, and the tutorial doesn't even come close to what is actually to be done on the software.If you can figure this out yourself, it is a good tool for screenwriting, otherwise, you are going to be terminally frustrated and chuck the thing into the river. Beware, expect NO help from the manual or from the manufacturer.

Exceptional tool for screenwriters of all levels of experience.
This software is remarkable. It's just below $200, and the price is very good for the product, the amount of resource the software provides. Tech support is awesome. The Write Brothers are where it's at for this type of stuff. ... Read more