PowerTracks Pro Audio Version 6.0 New Features

PowerTracks Pro Audio now offers support for multiple sound cards and professional multi-line recording cards, allowing you to simultaneously record and play back up to 16 digital audio inputs and outputs for maximum flexibility and high-quality results.

The unique PowerTracks Pro Audio JukeBox feature has been enhanced with new dedicated controls, offering next song, previous song, stop, and start buttons --which combine to allow for complete custom control of Jukebox sessions. It even has stop between songs and play on command features to control pauses between songs - a "must-have" for live performances.

The expanded 16 Track Mixer Window allows simultaneous precision control of up to 16 Audio, MIDI, or a combination of MIDI and Audio tracks "at a glance".

Enhanced MIDI to Audio Sync adjustments allow accurate recording playback sessions even for inexpensive or older soundcards that may not support full duplex operation.

New Markers View lets you insert your own song position markers, displayed at the top of the Bars Overview Window. This feature enables you to quickly navigate through a project by jumping forward to the next marker or back to the prior marker at the click of a button With the Go to Marker command you can also jump directly to any marker - a huge time saver during editing sessions.

Major guitar fretboard enhancements include the ability to display "guide notes and note names", showing the exact scale-note locations based on the key of a song. The virtual guitar fretboard is also totally resizable, allowing maximum flexibility for viewing at any angle -at any screen size and resolution.

There's a handy new setting called Fill Blank Track Names with Patches. With this option, when a new song is loaded, the program will offer to automatically fill in any unnamed track names with a MIDI patch name. In this case, the patch name is based on the Patch Number found in the Prg field of the Tracks window: MIDI (.mid) files are given General MIDI patch names, and .SEQ files are assigned names as found in the custom patch list (e.g., XG, GS, etc.) that has been stored with each track.

Track names have been added to the Bars view. This view now shows you the exact track names in a dedicated column on the left-side of the Bars window.

Track - Save Track to File command saves any individual track that is contained in a project to its own file outside of the project. This feature allows you to quickly and easily "export" any track to another program, or to break up a larger project into a smaller one.

When changing the Key Signature, you can optionally auto-transpose the MIDI data of a song to the new key.

PowerTracks now offers a convenient silent message box option to eliminate those distracting (and often too loud) system "beeps" and program messages that are often accompanied by system sounds.

BONUS! Includes new PowerGuide CD-ROM Video Tutorials demonstrating some the new features and Plugins found in Version 6.0. These tutorials will help get you started with the new features quickly and easily.

Version 6.0 Features Six Incredible New Audio Plugins!

With the addition of 6 new Audio Plugins, Version 6.0 now boasts 19 professional-quality audio plugins, affording you the ability to create exciting, studio-quality digital audio -without the need for expensive or complicated outboard effects gear.

With previous versions of PowerTracks, we included several useful plugin DSP effects:

• Compressor
• Gate
• Distortion
• Reverb
• Echo
• Chorus
• Flanger
• Ring Mod
• Tremolo
• Tone Control
• Graphic EQ
• Parametric EQ
• Gain Change

• Pitch-Shift - One of the coolest audio effects available today, this plugin allows you to transpose the pitch of any audio track in your PowerTracks project up or down in semitone increments, or fine tune them in cents --without changing the original tempo! Now you really can "fix it in the mix" by raising the pitch of that out-of-tune vocal or guitar track to blend perfectly with your other tracks. Or, create beautiful harmonies out of a single-note instrument or vocal track by duplicating tracks while simultaneously changing the pitch up or down in semi-tones to the desired harmony notes.
• De-Ess - Recording vocals with microphones can often yield recordings with unwanted "whistling" or "esssss" sounds in the recording. The full-featured de-esser plugin can be useful for helping to eliminate this excessive sibilance as can often be heard on the 's' sounds in unprocessed vocal singing and spoken recordings.
• AutoWah - An increasingly popular effect, this envelope-controlled low pass filter can add a unique "synthetic" sound to audio tracks, and some downright strange sounds to other instruments. Often used in hip-hop, rap, pop, and dance mixes.
• Exciter - Long considered the "magic black box" used in professional recording studios, this plugin offers the same extra "high-harmonics" effect which results in a brightened up track or song. This powerful and highly specialized plugin results can often bring dramatic results to your mix.
• Enhancer - The Enhancer Plugin is another specialized plugin that can provide an extra boost to any digital audio track. A Bass Octave adjustment is coupled with a program-controlled high frequency boost, restoring formerly lifeless tracks back to life with enhanced detail and punch. Often used in conjunction with the Exciter, this plugin is often used just before or during a final mixdown,
• Hum Filter - Eliminate or reduce any unwanted Low AC hum (or buzz) often caused by lights or poorly insulated electrical connections from your audio tracks with minimal affect to the sonic characteristics of the recorded track by using this new plugin -another great "fix it in the mix" plugin for those otherwise-perfect takes.