Following today’s closing, Garritan founder Gary Garritan will assume the role of director of instrumental sciences at MakeMusic.

“Gary Garritan has revolutionized music creation by ensuring professional-quality software instrument sounds are within every musician’s reach,” said Karen van Lith, MakeMusic CEO. “His products will be tremendous additions to MakeMusic’s growing portfolio of solutions.”

Used in conjunction with music-writing software such as Finale, Garritan software libraries provide sounds so realistic they can be indistinguishable from a live performance. Garritan sounds are widely used in television, film and on the world’s greatest concert stages.

Garritan Corporation’s holdings include Garritan Personal Orchestra 4, World Instruments, Concert & Marching Band 2, Jazz & Big Band 3, Authorized Steinway, McGill University Master Samples, the Giga technologies and more. Garritan sounds have also been licensed in numerous music apps from Apple, Avid, AKAI, Cakewalk, Microsoft and Sony.

About MakeMusic, Inc.
MakeMusic®, Inc. is a world leader in music technology whose mission is to develop and market solutions that transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. For more than 20 years, Finale® has been the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores. MakeMusic is also the creator of SmartMusic® education software that is transforming the way students practice. With SmartMusic, students and teachers have access to thousands of band, orchestra and vocal pieces allowing students to practice with background accompaniment and get immediate feedback on their performance. SmartMusic allows teachers to individualize instruction and document the progress of every student. The SmartMusic® Inbox™, an Android™ and Apple® mobile application, provides additional access for teachers to review, grade, and comment on student assignments. MusicXML™ is an Internet-friendly way to publish musical scores, enabling musicians to distribute interactive sheet music online and to use sheet music files with a wide variety of musical applications. Garritan sound libraries provide musicians with state-of-the-art virtual instruments with the playback quality of a live performance. Additional information about this Minnesota company can be found at www.makemusic.com.

Cautionary Statements
Certain statements found in this release may constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements reflect the speaker’s current views with respect to future events and include any statement that does not directly relate to a current or historical fact. Our forward-looking statements in this release relate to our expectations regarding the anticipated benefits that will result from the acquisition of Garritan Corporation. Forward-looking statements cannot be guaranteed and actual results may vary materially due to the uncertainties and risks, known and unknown, associated with such statements. Examples of risks and uncertainties for MakeMusic include, but are not limited to: (i) unexpected difficulties or delays in integrating the Garritan Corporation business with MakeMusic’s business; (ii) our ability to retain Gary Garritan as an employee; and (iii) those factors described from time to time in our reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including our Annual Report on Form 10-K). Investors should not consider any list of such factors to be an exhaustive statement of all of the risks, uncertainties or potentially inaccurate assumptions investors should take into account when making investment decisions. Shareholders and other readers should not place undue reliance on “forward-looking statements,” as such statements speak only as of the date of this release. We do not intend to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.

Announcing the new Garritan Instant Orchestra – a must-have library that offers an easy way to make super-quick orchestrations in minutes–from start to finish. This sample-based collection contains useful, pre-packaged orchestral instrument combinations, mashups and effects: bombastic brass, ultra-lush strings, low-octave rumblings, spooky wind textures, mega-hits, wild overlays, silvery choruses, spacey pianos, light glissy harps, cathedral orchestra, delicate ensembles, ethereal textures, chaotic whirls, rises, glissandi, clusters, and much more. The library will is now available as a direct download for only $149.98 at garritan.com.

A Complete and Comprehensive World Instrument Collection – With over 350 individually sampled ethnic instruments, Garritan World Instruments offers more individually sampled instruments than any other ethnic sample library.

• The collection includes: Winds: Native American flutes, bamboo flutes, Irish flutes, Chinese and Japanese flutes, Indian flutes, clay flutes, recorders, pan flutes, nose flute, and other exotic winds Percussion: Taiko drums, Balinese and Javanese Gamelan ensembles, log drums, tablas, Ewe drums, balaphon, Udu drum, talking drum, steel drums, Latin percussion, and more Strings: Vibrato-controlled fiddle and erhu, sitars, koto, shamisen, kora, oud, santoor, rebab, harps, mandolins, and many other stringed instruments. Many others: didgeridoo, Middle Eastern reed instruments, accordions, Tibetan bowls, harmonium,bagpipes, and more!

• World Tunings—Garritan World Instruments is unique in its full support for Scala files, a standard format that allows instruments to play in different temperaments and scales. World Instruments includes many instrument and region-specific tunings, and users can also add their own.
• Intuitive Controls— The Garritan World Instruments Library is designed with playability and expressive control in mind. It features controls for dynamics, vibrato, keyswitched bends and tremolos, rolls, arpeggios, airflow noises, legato, auto-variability, auto-portamento, trills and more that make these samples realistic and expressive. Many of the controls in Garritan World Instruments are streamlined and standardized so that users can quickly become familiar with the library.
• Ensembles and Groups—Access various sections and groupings, from traditional Chinese orchestras, Gamelan ensembles, Taiko groups, drumming circles to eclectic Bollywood bands, folk bands, or create any group of your choosing. The Ensemble Manager makes it easy to load pre-configured and user-created templates.
• Sample Player Included—The World Instruments library comes integrated with the ARIA Player and works as a virtual instrument. There is no need to purchase a separate sampler. The ARIA Player uses Graceful Copy Protection and does not need a dongle to operate. Simply drag and drop the personalized graphic card onto the ARIA Instrument Engine to authorize it and get playing in seconds.
• Instantly Downloadable! – Garritan World Instruments is affordable, eco-friendly, and available on demand. Simply download and play. There’s no shipping, no waiting, and no box to discard. Downloadable instruments represent a small step toward a better earth – but a giant step for creativity.
• Designed for Compatibility – Garritan World Instruments supports Mac (OS 10.4 and higher) and Windows (XP and higher). It runs as a standalone, a plug-in (VST, Audio Units, RTAS), and with supported notation programs. It is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
• Suited for Every Musician—Professional composers can use this collection for quickly sketching parts involving ethnic instruments and to capture creative ideas. Hobbyists can use it to explore the world of world instrumentation. Students can use it to score projects and to study world music and ethnomusicology. The instruments in this collection are a perfect complement to the Garritan Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band libraries.

Garritan World Instruments transforms any computer into a soundscape of the world, with rare and exotic instruments that add flair and color to any piece of music. It is powered by the robust and reliable ARIA Player, Garritan’s powerful new 64-bit Sampler/Synthesis Engine, developed in collaboration with Plogue Art et Technologie Inc..

The ARIA engine and Garritan sounds have been rigorously industry tested and are widely used in products by Microsoft, SONY, AKAI, MakeMusic (Finale) and many other industry leaders. Pricing and Availability: Garritan World Instruments is available as a download at http://www.garritan.com. for $149.99 (download version). A DVD version is expected soon. For demos or more information about the Garritan World Instrument Library, visit http://www.garritan.com.

In addition to having a totally new Interface and improved sound authenticity, Plogue is saving 3 new sound chips from extinction and adds many additional features.

Here is some details:

UI Changes:

* Totally different skin (fits on all monitors and ebooks)
* Current mixer strip is always available.
* You can now enter some values using keyboard
* new Amplitude LFO added
* two asignable drawable user LFOS

New rescued chips:

*uPD1771C (as used in the Super Cassette Vision), uPD65010G (as used in the PV-1000) and M5232 (as used in the Poly-800)

Healed chip:

* DMG-01′s wave channel now has extra phase modulation (Pmode) and vertical offset (VPOS) settings

Effect Changes:

* Added new MIDI Delay Module & new Swing to Arpeggiator

Downloadable Version ($149.95 or $49.95 Upgrade)

The new Garritan Concert & Marching Band 2 is now available for download!

Garritan Concert & Marching Band 2 is state-of-the-art software that reproduces the sounds of the musical instruments in concert and marching bands, right from your computer. This collection is the first library of its kind and fills a major void in the world of sample libraries.

Concert & Marching Band 2 features and array of trumpets, cornets, trombones, mellophones, euphoniums, baritones, tubas, sousaphones, clarinets, piccolos, flutes, saxophones, marching percussion (including drumline from Virtual Drumline 2 by Tapspace), and much more.

MakeMusic releases upgrade to the worldwide standard in music notation software

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MakeMusic, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMUS – News) announced today that Finale 2011 is now shipping. Finale has remained the worldwide standard in music notation software for more than 20 years by offering musicians the power to create any music they can imagine. Finale 2011 builds upon that power with new flexibility that transforms the creative process.

“Finale 2011 adapts to the way musicians work,” stated Ron Raup, MakeMusic’s CEO. “We believe that musicians who are used to adjusting the way they create to accommodate music software will be delighted with the flexibility and freedom Finale 2011 offers. We’ve worked closely with a broad range of our customers to ensure that these enhancements benefit both those new to putting music on the printed page as well as those who are using Finale to create Pulitzer-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning scores.”

Finale 2011 takes care of the details and allows musicians to focus on creating their music:

• New Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move and edit staves, groups and brackets. Musicians are now free to work in any order they wish.
• Lyrics are more easily entered, instantly appear exactly as they’ll print out and are automatically spaced with even greater precision.

Finale 2011 also includes nearly 400 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra. An updated Garritan Aria player offers sophisticated control over these sounds with an integrated Ambiance reverb and a powerful new Ensemble feature. Those writing for percussion will welcome new music fonts that include a comprehensive collection of percussion, mallet and handbell graphics, as well as enhanced percussion playback capabilities.

Features of special interest to music educators include the Finale AlphaNotes™ music font and an expanded collection of more than 800 customizable music education worksheets and flashcards, including jazz improvisation worksheets and more than 100 titles of classroom repertoire.

Additional enhancements include automated Capo Chords, improved pickup measures, a new Quick Reference Guide with step-by-step instructions and colorful illustrations and much more. View short videos and details highlighting key Finale 2011 advancements here.

Follow Finale from our Community page, which offers access to the Finale Blog, Forum and links to Finale’s presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

About MakeMusic, Inc.

MakeMusic^®, Inc. is a world leader in music technology whose mission is to develop and market solutions that transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. For more than 20 years, Finale^® has been the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores. MakeMusic is also the creator of SmartMusic^® interactive software that is transforming the way students practice. With SmartMusic, students and teachers have access to thousands of band, orchestra and vocal pieces allowing students to practice with background accompaniment and get immediate feedback on their performance. SmartMusic allows teachers to individualize instruction and document the progress of every student. Additional information about this Minnesota company can be found at www.makemusic.com.

Contact:

MakeMusic, Inc.
Karen VanDerBosch, 952-906-3690
Chief Financial Officer
kvanderbosch@makemusic.com

GARRITAN RELEASES JAZZ & BIG BAND 3.0 – Download Version

Now featuring the new ARIA Sample Player and additional instruments

Orcas Island, USA (April 21, 2010) — Garritan has announced that the new 3rd edition of its Jazz & Big Band collection is available in a download version. The world’s most popular jazz & big band sample library just got better! Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 is now powered by the ARIA Instrument Engine and adds new features, new instrument sounds and updated programming at a lower price. Existing users of previous versions of Jazz & Big Band 3 can download the upgrade for only $49.95. New customers can purchase and get it for $149.95.

What’s New in JABB 3.0

• New ARIA Advanced Instrument Engine – ARIA, a new and highly-optimized instrument engine, developed in collaboration with Plogue Art et Technologie Inc, goes beyond ordinary samplers. ARIA is intuitive, efficient and versatile, loads instruments quickly, and places very low demand on your computer’s processor. The ARIA engine has been rigorously tested and is widely used in products by Microsoft, SONY, AKAI, MakeMusic (Finale) and other industry leaders.

• New Price – Instant Download! – JABB 3 is affordable, eco-friendly, and available on demand. Simply download and play. The entire JABB3 sample collection can be downloaded with a fast internet connection, dramatically reducing the product’s environmental impact and eliminating the waiting time associated with shipping.

• Additional Sounds & Ensemble Presets – JABB 3 includes additional instruments such as organs, slap basses and harmonica. There are also extended ranges for select instruments and Ensemble Presets.

• Auto Legato – JABB3′s new Auto Legato intelligently detects when you are playing a smooth line with overlapping notes and automatically applies correct legato transitions between notes. Creating realistic phrasing has never been easier. Auto Legato also makes playable trills extremely easy.

• Integrated Ambience Reverb & Stereo Stage – JABB3 now integrates the high quality Ambience reverb with the ARIA Player with individual mixing sends for each instrument. Stereo Stage imparts spacious stereo imagery for JABB instruments.

• MIDI Playback and Recording Features -The Standalone ARIA Player allows you to load and playback MIDI files. You can also produce audio recordings of the MIDI file or record yourself playing live.

• Designed for Compatibility – JABB runs on both Macintosh and Windows and a variety of formats to fit your workstation and your workflow (VST, Pro Tools RTAS, and OSX Audio Units). It supports 64-bit platforms in Windows (works in Windows 7). JABB3 is further optimized for use with the AKAI EWI Wind Controllers and integrates with popular notation programs such as Finale 2010.

• Graceful & Easy Authorization – ARIA authorization employs a personalized digital keycard. Simply drag and drop the personalized graphic card onto the ARIA Instrument Engine to authorize it and get playing in seconds.

JAZZ & BIG BAND has become the industry standard and won prestigious industry awards including Electronic Musician’s ‘Editor’s Choice Award, Keyboard Magazine ‘Keybuy’ award, Sound on Sound ‘5 Star’ award, and Music Tech Magazines ‘Recommended’ award.

This library contains over 60 individual instruments, and each instrument offers a great deal of real-time control, perhaps more so than any other sample library. Techniques unique to a particular instrument type are also represented (e.g., trumpet falloffs, doits, and even the characteristic “kiss” or “rip”) – all applied as needed by the user. Certain features, like trumpet and trombone “shakes” can be tailored to specific needs rather than limited to switchable recordings of particular shakes and the feature is now much easier to use than in previous versions of the library.

Garritan Jazz & Big Band has developed an enthusiastic following for its “performance-driven” approach and ability to create realistic and expressive sounding jazz and big band music.

Pricing: New Suggested Retail price: $149.95
$49.95 downloadable upgrade for existing users
DVD version coming soon

Availability: Now

For further information: www.garritan.com

This software instrument accurately captures the distinctive sound of the hallmark and legendary Steinway & Sons Model D concert grand piano – with unprecedented authenticity and musicality.

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This update contains:

- ARIA Engine 1.093 (previous was 1.076 released in july 2009)
- ARIA player 1.02 (previous was 1.01 released in august 2009)
- Added GPO Ensembles
- Few instruments improvements

To get this update, log into your Garritan account at www.garritan.com

You can now download the v1.04 update for all Authorized Steinway & Sons editions at garritan.com. Basic users can save time by downloading the update zip file rather than the full product zip.
Changes include:

• Improved Sustain Resonance compatibility with plugin hosts, improved sustain resonance CPU efficiency particularly with small audio device buffer sizes, sustain resonance bug fix for sample rates of 88,96,176, and 192khz.
• Improved host (sequencers/notation) compatibility.
• Bug fix of the tuning type’s display – it now correctly shows the current temperament.
• Improvements to polyphony and voice stealing.
• Improved Snow Leopard compatibility.
• Minor UI issues fixed.

For the future, version 1.05 is under development, which I currently expect will include pedaling fixes and pro/standard voicing improvements. Also, the Steinway B from Skywalker Sound is under development, although it’s a different product.