MAGIX Entertainment Launches Music & Video Maker Generation 6; New Video fx Rack Transforms Users' Music Creations Into Robust Multimedia Productions

Business Wire, March 19, 2001

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001

MAGIX Entertainment, a worldwide market and technology leader in the personal rich media content category, has announced the launch of Music & Video Maker Generation 6 now available in stores nationwide.

Touting a new Windows interface, the upgraded product features a powerful new video component that transforms music creations into a robust multimedia experience. With Music & Video Maker Generation 6, anyone can incorporate sound, audio, video, special effects and text to produce their own personal music videos, jazz up family movies, uplevel business presentations, and much more.

Also, with new automatic e-mail and Web publishing features, people can instantly share their multimedia creations with friends, family or business associates with unprecedented ease, or upload their productions to the MAGIX site to share with the online community.

Music & Video Maker Generation 6 comes in standard and deLuxe versions at the low suggested retail price of $59.99 and $99.99 respectively.

"With Music & Video Maker Generation 6, we have provided the tools for anyone to create a professional quality, full-scale production at a very low cost. MAGIX understands that rich media, whether it be music, video, film or streaming online content, can profoundly affect the way people enjoy, understand or respond to an idea or message. Our software empowers consumers to explore their creative potential and gives them the ability reach people on a whole new level," said Ken Alterwitz, CEO/President for MAGIX Entertainment, USA.

The improved standard version of the software offers a variety of brand new user-friendly features, including a visual tutorial; an easy to navigate interface; a more sophisticated song Wizard; a new title creator; enhanced audio effects rack with sensor fields, new beat synths (ambient, copper and drum and bass); and a more advanced transport window, featuring tempo, loop and volume control with a 25% boost option.

In addition, the software offers 48 tracks with unlimited spacing, six virtual instruments, a drum machine, a drum and bass machine, two synthesizers, a vocoder and a gater. There are also over 2,000 of the latest top sound loops from dance, house, techno, hip-hop and Latin. Additionally, there is more than 500 MB of video files to manipulate using the new realistic video effects rack, with endless fx possibilities, such as whirpools, echo, fisheye, mosaic and emboss.

Music & Video Maker deLuxe features a 64 track arranger, with 8 virtual instruments and over 3,200 top sound loops. The deLuxe also works with all common video-capture cards to integrate videos and pictures from VCR's, video or digital cameras directly into the program.

With such low price points, MAGIX Entertainment software is designed for everyone from teenagers to professional DJs, teachers, Web designers and music novices worldwide. The software is available at most leading software retailers including Best Buy, Micro Center, Electronic Boutiques, Office Depot, Media Play, CompUSA, Circuit City, Fry's and Virgin Megastores.

To learn more about MAGIX Entertainment's full line of more than 30 revolutionary media rich software products, visit www.magix.com.

About MAGIX Entertainment Corp.:

Launched in 1994 in Germany, MAGIX Entertainment is a worldwide market and technology leader in the personal rich media content category that allows users its software to integrate music, animation, video, text and sound for a powerful personal rich media creation experience. MAGIX pioneered the idea of producing music and video on a home PC and has consistently brought to market robust multimedia tools and applications that meet the growing demand for technology powering the personal publishing revolution. MAGIX has 10 offices throughout Europe and the United States.