Digidesign Establishes Worldwide Live Sound Products Team & Distribution Network for VENUE Daly City, CA (April 15, 2005) — Digidesign is pleased to announce its new worldwide sales and marketing team and dealer distribution network supporting the VENUE live sound product line. The VENUE team currently includes nine strong live sound professionals who are responsible for introducing VENUE to the world of touring professionals and providing hands-on assistance to new customers. In addition, Digidesign is also excited to introduce the first Digidesign-authorized dealers that form the worldwide VENUE distribution. “It’s an honor to have such talented and experienced individuals make up our VENUE team,” says Christopher Bock, Digidesign’s vice president of sales and marketing. “These guys know life on the road as well as the needs of live sound professionals working in system integration and houses of worship. It’s also thrilling to see so much interest from dealers in such a short period of time. I expect our sales and marketing team and our dealer network to grow quickly as VENUE becomes to live sound what Pro Tools became to recording.” VENUE Live Sound Products Team CJ Alvarado Logistics Coordinator Mike Case European Sales Manager Steve McCale Senior Applications Engineer Masayuki “Mack” Miyamura Japan Sales Manager Jeff Priepot Product Specialist Sheldon Radford Product Manager Christian Reichardt Sales Manager (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) Robert Scovill Market Manager Lee Stein North American Sales Manager Worldwide Dealer Network North American Dealers: Anderson Group International (AGI) Oregon Audio Analysts Colorado Clair Brothers Audio Pennsylvania Contact Distribution (Distributor) Canada Firehouse Productions New York FM Systems Canada Hi-Tech Audio Systems California Masque Sound New Jersey Platt Design Group California Sound Image California Spectrum Sound Tennessee Sweetwater Indiana T.C. Furlong Illinois Washington Professional Maryland International Dealers: A/D Systems Italy Arva Trading AB Sweden AudioPro Portugal Benum A/S Norway Dispatch SA/Best Audio France Heavy Moon Japan Hermes Music Mexico Lagoona SA France Marquee Audio United Kingdom Niveau 2 Mediasystems SA (Distributor) Switzerland Seesound Spain Seki Electronics Korea Soundata Finland Sun Muse Japan For more information, visit Digidesign’s website at www.digidesign.com. About VENUE Digidesign’s VENUE is a state-of-the-art, modular live sound reinforcement mixing and processing environment offering the quality and functionality of high-end live sound mixing systems at an affordable price. VENUE is made up of various building blocks that comprise an entire system, including a host of expandable hardware subsystems and software components. The centerpiece of the VENUE system environment is the D-Show™ console, a highly capable mixing console with expandable digital mix engine and control software, mix position analog and digital I/O, remote-controlled mic/line preamps, a multi-channel digital snake, and the innovative Personal Q artist-controlled monitor mixing option. VENUE also supports DSP effects plug-in processing and features an integrated recording and playback option for industry-standard Digidesign® Pro Tools® systems. About Digidesign Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc., is the world’s leading manufacturer of digital audio production systems and the winner of the 2001 Technical Grammy® Award and 2003 Academy Award® of Merit (Oscar® statuette) for the design, development and implementation of the Pro Tools digital audio workstation. Digidesign provides the professional music, film, video, multimedia, and radio broadcast industries with tools for digital recording, MIDI sequencing, editing, signal processing, and surround mixing. Digidesign products are marketed in over 40 countries worldwide through a distribution network of value-added dealers, distributors, and OEM relationships. M-Audio, a leading provider of digital audio and MIDI solutions for electronic musicians and audio professionals, is a business unit of Digidesign. For more information, visit www.digidesign.com. © 2005 Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product features, specifications, system requirements and availability are subject to change without notice. Promotions and discounts are subject to availability and change without notice. All prices are USMRP for U.S. and Canada only and are subject to change without notice. Avid, Digidesign, M-Audio, D-Show, and Pro Tools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Academy Award and Oscar are trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Grammy is a trademark of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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