Northridge, CA - November 17, 2001 — It's all about keeping the customers happy. A free upgrade to Sonicfire Pro, Sonic Desktop's newest soundtrack creation program, and special pricing on multiple packs of SmartSound add-on CDs aim to make the professional videographer's life much easier.

The prominent feature in the 2.1 upgrade gives Sonicfire Pro expanded support of digital video AVI file types through the utilization of Microsoft's DirectShow. With the application of this patch, Sonicfire Pro will now support nearly all forms of AVI files, as well as most other industry standard video codec. The upgrade will also support Macintosh OS X and Windows XP.

Sonicfire Pro 2.1 features other usability enhancements, such as the Exploding Blocks function, which allows users to see the component blocks of a soundtrack created through the Maestro; Smart Extend, which enables users to move or set new markers on the timeline, then press the Smart Extend button to get a new arrangement filling the new time, keeping the musical ending; and greater hardware support for CD audio on Windows machines.

For those who have been looking for more audio content to fuel their video projects, Sonic Desktop has a couple of different options to get more for less.

First is the 3-Pack line of products, which includes the Wedding Set, the Corporate Set, the Travel Set, the Documentary Set, the Home Set and the forthcoming Edge Set. These 3-Packs feature CDs best suited for popular areas of videography and are offered at a reduced cost from the individual disc pricing.

For those people who need lots of content for their video projects, Sonic Desktop also offers their palettes in 10-packs. The customer just chooses any 10 CDs from the Audio Palette, Sound Palette or Edge Series and gets a further break from the per-CD price. (Sound Palettes 3 & 4, a two CD set, counts as two)

About Sonic Desktop, Inc.
Sonic Desktop Software, The Soundtrack Company™, is the developer and marketer of the SmartSound family of audio software product--the world leader in soundtrack creation technology for visual content creators. SmartSound technology is available for Windows 95 or newer and Macintosh OS 7.0 or newer. The products include the SmartSound For Multimedia and SmartSound Sonicfire Pro soundtrack creation software and the Audio Palette, Sound Palette and The Edge series of music and sound effects add-on CDs. The company is headquartered in Northridge, Calif., and can be reached by phone at 818-920-9122, by fax at 818-920-9152 or via their website www.smartsound.com.