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ULEAD Burn.Now 1.5 SE

Avanquest Software
Top Of The Pops: Mix Factory 2

BBC Multimedia

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a composer of pop tunes, then TOTP Mix Factory 2 could be what you need. It is a complete 12-track mixer designed to make it as easy as possible for you to pull samples together into real tunes. The 1,600 free samples included are grouped into Chart, Club and Dance collections. To get them onto the 16 tracks is simply a matter of dragging samples from the main display onto the track list. You can edit samples to get their sounds precisely as you want them, or even record your own if what you want is not already present.
Creating a video to go with your music track is again a matter of dragging elements from a library into the frame--this time you have foreground and background to consider. You can import your own images into the vision mixer if those that are provided don't suit. Once completed, you can put your creations into a playlist and sit back and enjoy them and swap tracks with friends. It's great fun.--Sandra Vogel
Learn to Play Guitar (PC)

Avanquest Software
ULEAD VideoStudio 7 SE

Avanquest Software
Ring tone Creator

Avanquest Software
Tune Tools (PC)

Avanquest Software
Top Of The Pops: Mix Factory

BBC Multimedia
GSP Giftbox Collection: Learn to Play Guitar (PC)

Avanquest Software
Guitar Pack

Avanquest Software
Piano Pack

Avanquest Software
MP3 Turntables - Virtual Decks DJ

Avanquest Software
Guitar Gift Pack 2005 (Interactive Guitar Course + Guitar Universal Workshop)

Avanquest Software
Shakespeare on CD-ROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream

BBC Multimedia

This CD-ROM is part of an award-winning series of Shakespearean plays; other successes include Romeo And Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet--which has been described by "CD-ROM Now" as "quite simply multimedia at its best". This is quite some praise, but it is deserved, since the series has everything that most top range CD-ROM packages offer in terms of graphics, video footage, sound quality and interactive elements--as well as possessing the most wide-ranging and erudite commentary that this reviewer have seen in the genre.
On top of containing a complete run-through of Shakespeare's classic comedy, there is such a broad range of issues that a review alone can do scant justice to its diversity. Here you can find out about the principal themes of the play--love and marriage, illusion and acting--and the way in which these themes interweave with the text and the events of the play. There is also an interesting section on the play's provenance, and, very usefully, a range of reviews, ranging from Hazlitt to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and including Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as more modern critics.
A carping critic would complain that the analysis of the characterisation is not as deep here as in some of the other packages (Romeo and Juliet in particular)--but this would not do justice to what is unquestionably a great package, one of enormous use and enjoyment to anyone who has an interest in A Midsummer Night's Dream. --Toby Green
Shakespeare on CD-ROM: Macbeth

BBC Multimedia