PRESS RELEASE: Paris, Feb 17, 2005
High speed free way on the MacMusic web site
Good news for 2005. MacMusic is coming back free for every members. Thanks to the two years contribution of the Active Members and to the new growing revenue from the advertisers, the whole site can now be freely open to everybody. This new step underline the end of the sleeping screens which weighed the site consultation for non active members.
MacMusic informations site and its forum dedicated to passionate musicians continue its original route on the web.
Two years ago, in order to overcome its growth crisis and to upgrade its server, MacMusic had to choose an original way of development : They had to resort to the active members contributions. With the voluntary help coming from nearly 200 members they went through this step.
Now MacMusic enhance its concept and is able to upgrade its servers.
The MacMusic site stops its cash contribution system. They plan to change the presentation and organisation of the forum. Some of them will be dedicated to professional exchanges. And Moreover the sleeping screens disappear for everybody.
With more than 40,000 registered members, 110,000 forum posts, 4,000 daily downloads , MacMusic supports its leading place among the site dedicated to Mac, Midi and Audio enthusiasts (in English and in French language).
About MacMusic:
MacMusic went live September 29th 1997 and has grown to become a huge community with more than 40.000 members, each with a passion driven by the incredible possibilities that the Macintosh offers to compose, arrange and always push the limits of musical creation.
Every visitor of the site can freely take advantage of many articles, recent news, software updates, drivers, shareware/freeware, links, and extremely dynamic, animated and highly informative user forums where humor verges on professionalism.
MacMusic is, ahead of all things, an open website, one of exchanges where everyone can contribute in order to improve (on a daily basis) the databases and information which make the site so unique and alive!
macusically,
Paul Clouvel
Editor-in-Chief, MacMusic.org
editor@macmusic.org
MacMusic: Audio, Midi & Music on Macintosh
http://www.macmusic.org