Cakewalk Kinetic by Cakewalk

With Cakewalk Kinetic, you're the dance and hip-hop producer. Simply put, Kinetic represents the fastest and easiest way to create electronic music. Even if you have no musical background, it's a snap to get started making tracks. And that's not all, your grooves are going to be huge because Kinetic features the best instrument sounds ever available on a PC. Whether you have dance-club aspirations or need beats to back your rhymes, Kinetic has all the juice you need.

The best sounds

Kinetic features 100-percent-genuine Roland sounds from their genre-defining groove boxes and synthesizers. The Roland name is synonymous with the cutting edge tones of hip hop, dance, and electronica. These instruments have been used by chart-toppers and underground legends for over 20 years. It would take thousands of dollars of hardware to create these sounds, but now they can instantly be yours--all you need is Kinetic and your PC.

The easiest way to make music

Kinetic doesn't just sound good; it makes musical creativity accessible to anyone, regardless of musical experience. Just select the instrument and style of music you want, and you are given hundreds of professionally recorded music patterns and loops to make music. To add your own flavor to the mix you, can modify these patterns or create your own. Then just point and click to trigger different instruments and you're composing your own song.

Key features:

Compose music and create beats with an easy point-and-click interface
Choose from over 400 instrument patches, featuring genuine Roland sounds (101, 606, 808, 909, more)
Add audio loops to your mix for even more rhythmic variety
Get started with hundreds of professionally recorded music patterns and ACID-format loops in popular styles
Quickly access patterns and sounds by instrument type and music genre through Kinetic's innovative content browser
Use the included patterns or create your own
Tweak your sounds with professional studio effects
Connect Kinetic to other recording programs like Music Creator, Home Studio, or SONAR to expand your capabilities
Export WAV files of your mix to burn on CD or MP3s* to share on the web

*MP3 encoder is available as a 30-day trial version

Product Reviews
Looks like a great product...but $80 later, I'm stuck with a CD that does me no good because I own a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 soundcard. Evidently, "newer" drivers don't work with this product. You have to install drivers from...2003? Note that there are absolutely NO updates available for this product, and I'm writing this review as of August 21, 2005. If your SB drivers are from 2004 or newer, you will get a "blue screen of death" when trying to execute key commands in this application (such as "new song..."). If you don't have a Sound Blaster sound card, then go for it, but otherwise.....good luck! Besides, Sound Blaster cards are pretty obscure......right?