Sonic Foundry Announces M.A.P. 2000 Bundle

Sonic Foundry (AMEX: SFO), a leading developer and marketer of media authoring tools for the Windows® platform, today introduced M.A.P. 2000, a complete Music and Audio Production (M.A.P.) package designed to provide increased productivity for media authoring professionals. A versatile, fully integrated Windows-based system, M.A.P. 2000 contains all of the tools required for creating professional media content in formats ranging from broadcast television and radio to Web streaming media applications.

The M.A.P. 2000 package features combined functionality from three of Sonic Foundry's most popular and powerful programs, ACID PRO, Sound Forge® 4.5, and CD Architect® 4.0. ACID PRO is a multi-genre loop-based content creation tool used for authoring royalty-free compositions, which can then be edited using Sound Forge 4.5, an advanced audio media editing environment that supports both Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies 4.0 and RealNetworks' G2 file formats. From there, CD Architect records audio files on audio CDs in the Red Book format, resulting in a professional sounding CD pre-master ready for duplication. This complete set of content creation, editing, and delivery tools is accompanied by 28 CDs of content: 22 loop libraries and six special effects CDs.

In addition to the ACID PRO, Sound Forge 4.5, and CD Architect applications, the M.A.P. 2000 package also features a full set of DirectX Audio Plug-Ins that provide real time, high performance effects. The package's Noise Reduction filtering tool is equipped with the Broadband Noise filter and the Vinyl Restoration filter, which allow users to isolate and eliminate unwanted signals from background noise and older recording format impurities, respectively. In addition, M.A.P. 2000's innovative Acoustic Mirror plug-in provides the ability to apply the unique acoustic signatures of assorted venues to compositions in editing.

The M.A.P. 2000 system also features the 18 tools of the practical XFX plug-in series. The XFX 1 plug-in pack can be used to add reverb, chorus, and time and pitch shifts, while the XFX 2plug-in bundle purifies and manipulates vocal tracks and compresses and equalizes recordings. The XFX 3 plug-in applies wah-wah, distortion, and vibrato effects and also permits waveform contouring and smoothing.

The feature-packed M.A.P. 2000 includes several technical attributes that make it an invaluable Web media production tool as well. Updated to support Microsoft's recently announced Windows Media Technologies 4.0 streaming media platform, M.A.P. 2000's technical capabilities also include the capacity to handle video as well as audio, batch conversion of data via Sound Forge 4.5, and support for streaming media applications.

"Professionals in all areas of broadcast media production will appreciate the creative flexibility and productivity improvements the M.A.P. 2000 system offers," said Doug Nestler, Sonic Foundry's Director of Retail Business Development. "This is a comprehensive tool that can conveniently take a project from creation through delivery, saving time while maintaining the highest level of creative potential."