Sonic Foundry Relaunches ACIDplanet.com

Sonic Foundry (Nasdaq: SOFO), a leading developer and marketer of media authoring software for the Windows[R] platform, today announced the debut of its enhanced and expanded ACIDplanet.com Web site. This truly unique site allows users of the Company's ACID music creation software to self-publish music online and is poised to become a premier content destination on the Internet.

ACIDplanet.com provides ACID users with access to a comprehensive online music studio that includes tools, publishing services, and a listening lounge for musicians to share their music with the worldwide Internet community. By using this feature-packed site, ACID users can easily publish music in many of today's most popular audio formats, and they are also able to chat with other musicians online, rate and review the music of their peers, access online sales and promotional items, and link with other third-party music Web sites. Additionally, Sonic Foundry plans to place tracks from major label artists on ACIDplanet.com that ACID musicians will be able to edit and remix.

"We believe this launch of our new ACIDplanet.com site will serve to establish Sonic Foundry as an emerging force in the online content arena," said Rimas Buinevicius, Sonic Foundry's Chairman and CEO. "This exciting site not only provides ACID musicians with an innovative, easy-to-use forum for publishing their music online, but will also be available as a leading content site for music fans across the Internet."

Sonic Foundry's ACID is a powerful, yet easy-to-use music creation package that brings unprecedented creative flexibility to loop arranging and editing. With a simple click and drag users can combine and mix loops, make real-time changes to pitch and tempo, and control the volume, pan, and effect envelopes for each track to create the perfect mix. The versatile ACID program also allows users to add their own instruments or vocals to their music creations easily by simply plugging into their PC soundcard. ACID's complete professional tool set, ACID PRO, ACID Music, ACID Rock, ACID DJ, and ACID Hip-Hop, includes support for multiple real-time effects with DirectX Audio Plug-Ins and also provides easy access to Sonic Foundrys Sound Forge or other audio editors.