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Steinberg, the Audio Group of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE) and a leading innovator of computer recording technology, continues its 20th Anniversary year with new versions of Wavelab and HALion and a new strategic alliance with Yamaha Corporation at the Frankfurt Musikmesse, HALL 5.1, STAND B78.

Steinberg products and technologies have played a key role in the advancement of audio production over the past twenty years," said Andreas Stelling, general manager of Steinberg. "2004 marks the beginning of a new era of innovation for Steinberg, now the Audio Group of Pinnacle Systems, and we are excited and proud to showcase our latest developments here at Musikmesse."

Founded in 1984, Steinberg has innovated technologies such as Virtual Studio Technology (VST) and Audio Streaming In Out (ASIO) that have become two of the most widely accepted standards in computer recording today. Steinberg applications Cubase, Nuendo and Wavelab along with the many creative tools and hardware that accompany them are used by award winning professionals in the music, film, and multimedia industries.

"Studio Connections" Development Alliance

Steinberg and Yamaha Corporation continue a long-standing relationship by announcing a new strategic alliance to develop integrated solutions for all levels of the music and media production market. The goal of the Studio Connections project is to enable the strengths of both hardware and software to be seamlessly combined to produce powerful, flexible and highly efficient audio production systems.

New technologies and protocols are being defined to meet the objectives of total integration. A preview of the Studio Connections project can be seen in the Yamaha Forum at Musikmesse with initial hardware and software product releases from Yamaha and Steinberg planned for the second half of this year.

New Products

WaveLab 5 builds upon Steinberg's award winning editing and mastering software with a complete set of DVD Audio mastering and authoring tools. The DVD Audio burning capabilities also include video data, DVD Audio extraction, conversion, and archiving. Also added to version 5 is support for up to eight audio channels throughout the entire signal chain for surround recording, editing, processing and mastering, a "Smart" Video Thumbnail Track for editing audio for video, track-based insert effects, multi-channel metering, and support for Steinberg Surround Edition plug-ins.

HALion 3 is the latest version of Steinberg's award-winning VST sampler. Utilizing Steinberg's high-quality sampling engine, version 3 adds new capabilities such as RAMSave, a new memory-saving technology developed by Steinberg to handle sample content very efficiently, and thereby improve system performance. HALion 3 offers new creative possibilities including a new effects section with 27 effects and freely configurable output routing as well as new sound management tools which include a new file browser, database and indexing functions. HALion 3 also improves on the already extensive HALion import functionality, with support added for Kurzweil, ZeroX BeatCreator and Kontakt files.

Steinberg will host a press conference at 11:00 a.m., MARCH 31 in HALL 5.1, STAND B78 and will also be represented in the Yamaha Forum (HALL FOR, STAND A01) and at Apple Computer (HALL 5.1, STAND A70).

About Steinberg, the Audio Group of Pinnacle Systems

Steinberg is known the world over for its professional media solutions. The company has been developing, manufacturing and selling software products for musicians and producers in the music, film, post-production, and multimedia industries since 1984. Steinberg products are used by Grammy(R) and Oscar(R) award winning composers, engineers, and producers.

About Pinnacle Systems, Inc.