Thursday, April 30, 2009

Acoustica Pianissimo Virtual Grand Piano


Pianissimo is a virtual grand piano, delivering the rich, warm sound and expressiveness of a classic grand piano. It operates as a VSTi plug-in, or runs as a stand-alone application. Pianissimo uses a combination of sample playback and advanced physical modeling to create a stunning acoustic grand piano sound. Starting with 250 MB of high quality samples of a Steinway(tm) Model D grand piano, Pianissimo uses complex signal processing and programming to recreate the warmth, response, and playability of a real grand piano. This warm, natural sound is then paired with a professional studio-quality reverb algorithm to add the depth and ambiance of a real acoustic space. Add in modeled sympathetic resonance, incidental mechanical hammer sounds, remarkable control over tone and velocity response, 256 voices of polyphony, and incredibly low CPU usage, and Pianissimo might just be the best sounding, most playable virtual piano ever. The VSTi will operate in any DAW with support for virtual instruments in the VSTi format, including Mixcraft. The Stand-Alone version supports any MIDI device, and any Wave, ASIO, or WaveRT device. It allows for two-track recording, loading and saving of standard MIDI Type 1 files, and supports mixing down to WAV, MP3, WMA, and Ogg Vorbis files.

Features:

  • 250MB of high-quality, quadruple-strike samples from a Steinway¿ Model D grand piano, enhanced with acoustic modeling technology to produce a rich, warm, expressive, and highly realistic grand piano sound.
  • Ultra-professional integrated studio reverb creates a highly realistic ambience that places the piano within a true acoustic space.
  • Unparalleled sample programming creates a fluid, dynamic, expressive tone without identifiable velocity switching or other digital artifacts.
  • Advanced sympathetic resonance modeling recreates the subtle shimmer of piano strings when the damper pedal is depressed.
  • Adjustable incidental piano sounds, including mechanical noises from damper pedal and key release, for an unparalleled level of realism.
  • 256 voices of polyphony and low CPU usage make Pianissimo ideal for solo piano performance, studio compositions, and live performance.
  • Adjustable piano lid, velocity curve, tone controls, sympathetic resonance, reverb, and chorus effect allow you to tailor the piano¿s tone and response to fit your playing style.
  • Works in all major digital audio recording software packages (including Mixcraft¿) as a VSTi plug-in instrument.
  • Stand-alone version features metronome, two-track sequencer, and ability to mix down recordings to WAV, MP3, WMA, or OGG Vorbis audio files.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Genie Backup Manager Professional 8.0


Genie Backup Manager is the ideal backup solution for anyone who needs to recover from a system failure. It offers you more control over what you want to backup and how often you'd like it backed up. With the ability to recover your entire system without the need of a Windows Installation CD, GBM is perfect for anyone who often needs to reinstall his system due to a system failure. If you like to have control of how you run your backup plan, with more comprehensive features and run to different backup locations, then Genie Backup Manager is perfect for you!

Please see here to purchase Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 for 3 PCs for $144.99.

Genie Backup Manager Professional 8.0 (GBM Pro 8.0) is a total system and data protection solution. GBM Pro 8.0 is a reliable and robust backup and data recovery solution yet combines ease-of-use and user-interface consistency - containing everything under one roof. Genie Backup Manager Professional is a simple yet robust backup solution that allows users to backup and restore reliably. It allows users to backup their data to virtually any storage destination and uses Windows Explorer style file/folder selection. With AES encryption, you can add security to your data to prevent from unauthorized access. Equipped with Windows Vista compatible disaster recovery feature, guarantees your business continuity by backing up your whole system. GBM Pro V8.0 delivers high reliability as it packs everything under one roof by providing a built-in open/used files backup agent together with an easy-to-use smart interface for a full featured solution to small and medium businesses.

Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 has the power, flexibility and is feature rich to suit single system users to multiple systems within small businesses over LANs and for use in SAN, and NAS backups, resource sharing scenarios and backing up to removable media devices such as USB, REV disks, floppy diskette, all types of optical media remote location using FTP, and tape drive media and online backups using Ajax-based backup technology to Genie Online Backup storage servers. Genie Backup Manager Pro offers better data management and greater data availability than ever before.


Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 is equipped with Windows Vista's compatible disaster recovery (DR) features, guaranteeing small business continuity or continuance (BC) by enabling the option of backing up the entire system (operating system applications, mission-critical data, e-mails, operating system and application settings, files/folders, etc) yet offering fast and easy recovery via an intuitive wizard-based interface. There is no need for Microsoft's Windows Setup installation media.

Never again should data loss due to computer viruses, Trojan horses or malware infections, system and/or equipment failure, power outrage, robbery, fire, natural disaster, security breaches, terrorist attack, human error, organized or deliberate disruptions, and illegal programs, be an issue.

Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 offers various backup types, e.g., full, differential and incremental, all of which can be achieved using the easy-to-use smart backup scheduler. Different backup jobs can be performed at different times and intervals, snooze or even pause scheduled backup(s), and prompt Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 to postpone backups if the system is running on batteries (Laptop Power Optimization Support).

Finally, Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 provides built-in open/in use and locked file backups via Windows XP and Windows Vista Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS); uses U.S. government-certified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES: 128-, 192, 256-bit) security locally, or remotely using an encryption strength of 128-bit over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for data transmissions that is certified by the leading provider of SSL certificates, Thawte; preserving data integrity and forbidding eavesdroppers from intercepting data.

Disaster Recovery
Regain access to your data, hardware and software and resume personal and critical business operations once a data loss scenario occurs. Never again should data loss due to computer viruses, Trojan horses or malware infections, system and/or equipment failure, power outrage, robbery, fire, natural disaster, security breaches, terrorist attack, human error, organized or deliberate disruptions, and illegal programs, be an issue. With Genie Backup Manager's enhanced PE technology, which also supports Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista, you can perform your DR backup plan. It is also possible to perform your DR backup plan online.

Online Backup
Keep your data out of danger by remotely using Genie Online Backup to backup to, and restore from, using an encryption strength of 128-bit over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for data transmissions. Enhanced features allow you to easily view, manage, and delete your online backup storage. Added bandwidth throttling controls how much internet bandwidth GBM uses during uploads etc. Improved connectivity enables auto resumes when a connection is lost but then returns.

Backup Media
Backup to virtually any removable media device such as USB, REV disks, floppy diskette, all types of optical media, tape drive media. Also back up to remote locations using FTP and Genie Online Backup storage servers using Ajax-based backup technology. Genie Backup Manager Pro offers better data management and greater data availability, LANs and for use in DAS, and NASbackups, and resource sharing scenarios.

Secure
U.S. government-certified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES: 128-, 192-, 256-bit) encryption security is available, as well a Zip archive password protection.

Backup locked & open files
End users, network and system administrators are becoming acutely aware that their current backup software solutions are failing at the very thing they were purchased to do: backing up the most critical data in their organization and desktops. The reason for this backup failure is that the most important files created, files changing regularly and in use by business-critical applications performing important functions on this data cannot be interrupted. To a lesser degree this can be the case for personal users as well. To overcome this shortcoming GBM Home, Pro and Server editions provides built-in open/in use and locked file backups via Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS) technology. No additional applications or plug-ins are necessary. However, Genie-soft's powerful add-on supersedes many of the limitations still present using Windows VSS technology. So if you need the extra functionality, try Open File Backup (OFB), especially if you intend to backup open files across different types of network infrastructures. This aids in business continuity or continuance (BC).

Acronis True Image Home 2009 UK


Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster. If you already own a version of Acronis True Image Home 2009 and would like to upgrade to this version, please see here.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 provides the maximum flexibility to ensure you are adequately protected and can recover from unforeseen events such as viruses, unstable software downloads, and hard drive failures. Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backup only your important data and application settings - your choice!

You've accumulated a lifetime of memories on your home PC, in addition to important personal documents, such as tax returns and resumes, not to mention all the applications you have installed and unique settings for each family member that took countless hours to set up. Acronis True Image Home 2009 helps makes certain that you are adequately protected; ensuring that you can recover your precious data in case your PC fails or your computer hard disk is damaged by a virus.

Backup your entire PC
Acronis True Image Home 2009 is built on the most advanced, highly rated disk imaging technology available to consumers. Copy your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. If you suffer a system or disk crash, virus attack or other failure, you can restore the entire system disk in minutes.

Back up your documents, music, video, photos and e-mails
Any computer can fail at any time, regardless of how reliable it is, but you can't afford to lose work-related files and digital memories. Acronis True Image Home 2009 makes sure you won't.

Protect applications
Use Acronis True Image Home 2009 to restore all the settings for Microsoft Office, iTunes , Windows Media Player and any other installed applications.

Security, performance and privacy tools
When you replace a hard drive on your PC, Acronis makes sure you don't inadvertently give personal or organizational data to cyber thieves. Acronis Drive Cleanser, a $50 value is included at no charge. It protects sensitive data from view by wiping a disk so clean that data no longer exists. If you don't need to erase the entire disk, File Shredder safely destroys individual files so they can't be resurrected. A System Clean-up utility restores system efficiency.

Auto backup based on destination availability
User can decide to back up automatically or as soon as a destination drive is available. Works jointly with existing scheduling.

Try & Decide
You can try new software and browse the Web without endangering your computer from malware or unknown software. After testing, you can decide whether to keep or discard changes to your system. Works across reboots and includes password protection for parental control.

Windows Vista-style Interface leads the industry
The new, sleek interface of this product works on Windows XP and Vista operating systems.

Full text search
Search for file name and/or content within an archive, using Windows or Google Desktop search.

One-click protection
You decide what to back up, where and when. After that, backups occur automatically and restores are only a click away.

Consolidation
Define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup.
Zip support available

In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP format.

Dual Backup
Archive your documents to disk and a USB stick simultaneously. USB stick files can be stored in Acronis TIB or Zip compressed format, or as flat.

Storage Media - the following storage locations are supported:

  • Hard Disk Drives
  • Networked Storage Devices
  • FTP servers
  • CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R (Blu-ray, NEW!)
  • ZIP, JAZZ and other removable media
  • PATA (IDE), SATA, SCSI, SAS(NEW!), IEEE1394 (FireWire), USB 1/2.0 drives and PC-Card storage devices
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