Cool Edit Pro 2.0 offers PC users a range of useful new features such as real-time effects and track EQ, MIDI and video playback support, MTC master generation, six new DSP effects, loop-based music composition, and a compressed loop file format.

Establishing a new benchmark in value for digital audio production technology, Syntrillium Software unveiled Cool Edit Pro 2.0, the most significant upgrade to the very widely used digital editing/mixing software in its five-year history. Cool Edit Pro 2.0 offers PC users a range of useful new features such as real-time effects and track EQ, MIDI and video playback support, MTC master generation, six new DSP effects, loop-based music composition, and a compressed loop file format.

The introduction of Cool Edit Pro 2.0 underscores Syntrillium's dedication to extending the reach of the desktop audio revolution. Topping Cool Edit Pro 2.0's list of new features is real-time effects and EQ. This allows users to add any of the more than 40 supplied DSP or any third-party DirectX effects as well as EQ on the fly, as opposed to applying the settings once the recording process is complete.

Syntrillium has also incorporated limited MIDI and video support, MTC "master" generation and loop-based music composition, and a compressed loop file format into Cool Edit Pro 2.0, offering an extraordinary level of features and functionality at a price point that makes it accessible to users on virtually any sized budget. In addition, Cool Edit Pro 2.0 users will have free access to thousands of downloadable mp3PRO-based loops from Syntrillium's new loop library at www.loopology.com.

The Syntrillium loop library at www.loopology.com includes thousands of .CEL (Cool Edit Loop) loops, compressed files created using mp3PRO encoding. They are typically one-tenth the size of standard .WAV loops, and so are ideal for archiving and trading loops over the Internet while delivering the higher fidelity the mp3PRO format provides.

In launching the new Cool Edit Pro 2.0 Loop Library, Syntrillium hopes to redefine expectations among musicians and non-musicians alike concerning free loop libraries. The Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro 2.0 Loop Library features no fewer than 15 different music styles, including Bossa Nova, Jazz, Seventies Funk, Urban, Industrial, Classical, Noise, Rockabilly, Techno, Ambient, Asian, Blues and more in a variety of over 25 tempos. In addition to instrument loops, the library includes complete music beds of assembled music in selected styles.

The instrumentation includes all basic rock band parts, such as guitar, bass (electric and acoustic), drums, keyboard, piano, and electric piano, along with such classic instruments as Fender Rhodes 73, Classic 1970 Ludwig Drums, Hohner Clavinet, Rickenbacker Bass, Moog Synthesizer, and other notable synths from Roland and Yamaha, as well as classic drum machines from Roland and Alesis, among others.

The ethnic music includes authentic instruments like sitar, tabla, and yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), and all of the classical music features instrumentation including violins, cellos, and orchestral percussion, mostly in ensemble arrangements.

Just as the Cool Edit Pro user base includes musicians, recordists, and producers from many fields, the Cool Edit Pro 2.0 Loop Library is intended to appeal to a wide range of users. Novice and studio musicians alike will find material to suit their needs, as will film composers, commercial producers, DJs, and remixers.

Syntrillium's Red Rover is a small USB device designed with ergonomic and space-saving functionality in mind. The unit features standard multitrack transport controls that seamlessly interact with and control Cool Edit Pro's on-screen displays. In addition, the control unit provides unlimited access to all 128 tracks of possible audio on Cool Edit Pro.

Syntrillium's new Cool Edit Pro 2.0 digital audio software programs provide up to 128 tracks of 32-bit recording capability at up to 192 kHz (including 96 kHz) and support of ActiveMovie/DirectX plug-ins. The digital audio software package also includes multiple levels of undo, punch-in recording and SMPTE and MIDI timecode sync among many other features. Cool Edit Pro 2.0 also includes new features such as real-time effects and track EQ, disk-at-once CD burning, MIDI and video support MTC master generation and loop-based composition among others.

Syntrillium Software Corporation, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, was founded in 1995 to develop, publish, and market computer software products that enhance individual creativity in the manipulation of sound and visual effects. Cool Edit Pro is Syntrillium's flagship product. Syntrillium also publishes Cool Edit 2000, the world's most popular audio recording and editing software. Because it's so inexpensive ($69), easy to find (downloadable from the Internet) and yet so powerful, people all around the world use the Cool Edit family of products for desktop audio, publishing audio on the web, and CD-mastering.

Syntrillium also licenses its technologies to other software and hardware vendors who would like to enhance their own products with the power of Syntrillium's software.