Cakewalk® Announces New Line of Powered Monitor Speakers

Boston, MA (July 30, 2009) — Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces a new line of powered stereo monitor speakers. The Cakewalk MA-7A Stereo Micro Monitors and MA-15D Digital Stereo Micro Monitors provide an affordable means to deliver high quality sound. Both sets of monitors are perfect for use in a range of settings from the home recording studio, a classroom or media lab, the college dorm room, or your living room media center.

Highlights of the MA-7A Stereo Micro Monitors

The MA-7A Stereo Micro Monitors are an ideal speaker solution for those who create music in a home or project studio and want a high quality listening experience without stressing their budget. Music educators will also find these to be the perfect solution for their needs: easy to use, great sounding, and easily affordable.

• Pair of 7 watt-per-channel powered desktop monitors
• Genuine wooden cabinets
• Full-range 90 mm (3-9/16") woofers, with bass-reflex cabinet enclosure
• Bass Enhancer DSP utilizing psychoacoustic principles to let you hear low frequencies not normally audible through speakers this size
• Front and rear Stereo 1/8" line-in, plus RCA (L/R) inputs—connect two different sources, such as your computer and I-Pod at the same time
  
• 1/8" headphone jack
  
• Volume, bass, and treble controls
  
• Sub woofer output for extended low frequencies
  
• Magnetically-shielded to allow use close to your computer monitor and other equipment without electronic interference
  
• Available in classic black and blue/natural finishes

Highlights of the MA-15D Digital Stereo Micro Monitors

Also now available from Cakewalk is the MA-15 set of Digital Stereo Micro Monitors. These speakers are ideal for a number of professional and consumer uses. They are great options as studio reference monitors or as a second set of monitors to use in a surround sound configuration.

• Pair of 15 watt-per-channel powered desktop monitors
  
• Genuine wooden cabinets
  
• 100 mm (4") woofers and 50 mm (2") tweeters with 2-way bass reflex enclosure
  
• Keep pristine digital sound, up to 24-bit/192 kHz, with optical and coaxial S/PDIF inputs
  
• 2 analog inputs: 1/8" Line-in and RCA (L/R)
  
• Bass Enhancer DSP utilizing psychoacoustic principles to let you hear low frequencies not normally audible through speakers this size
  
• Independent bass, treble, and volume 1 & 2 controls
  
• 1/4" headphone jack
  
• Sub woofer output for extended low frequencies
  
• Magnetically-shielded to allow use close to your computer monitor and other equipment without electronic interference
  
• Available in classic black and blue/natural finishes

"Today's announcements of stereo monitors and audio interfaces reflects our continued efforts to work with Roland to introduce high-quality music hardware solutions for the consumer and pro-audio markets," said Michael Hoover, Cakewalk's executive vice president of products. "From our SONAR V-Studio products to our initial foray into audio and MIDI interfaces, the response from the marketplace has been very encouraging and we look forward to bringing additional hardware products to our customers."

Availability
The MA-7A and MA-15D monitors will be shipping to select music and consumer electronics retailers worldwide beginning in August 2009. For more information on Cakewalk's new powered speakers, please visit http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/monitors.asp.

For localized pricing and availability visit:

• Cakewalk (The Americas except Brazil and Canada)
• Edirol Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Austria)
• Roland Australia
• Roland Brazil
• Roland Canada
• Roland Central Europe (Belgium, France, Netherlands, and Luxembourg)
• Roland East Europe
• Roland Switzerland
• Roland Iberia (Portugal, Spain)
• Roland Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and Iceland)
• Roland Music LLC (Russia)

For a complete list of distributors worldwide visit: http://www.cakewalk.com/Dealers/International.asp.