Kevin Sorensen Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 Is anyone using or know about Peak Pro and/or Peak le for music playback? Ive never read anything about here, but i am interested in this audio editing software. ~Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 like many other programs out there, the BIAS software, including Peak and Soap are quality products, frequently used and well respected in the music industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lightstone, CAS Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 Peak is over priced in my opinion. It also depends on what your playback requirements are. I mostly do two track playback so an inexpensive program like Sound Studio does the trick for me. www.felttip.com If I had an intensive specialized job I'd use my Pro Tools LE. RL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 I played around w BIAS PEAK free back when. Worked well as I recall. If I was going to learn only one Software/DAW, I would spend the time and $$$$ on ProTools. Just because it has become the standard. Also, they are all very similar once you learn one IMO. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Sorensen Posted June 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 My Sound Studio program makes a horrible sounding noise when I try to use it lately, so I had to remove it untill I can find out what's wrong with it. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 My Sound Studio program makes a horrible sounding noise when I try to use it lately, so I had to remove it untill I can find out what's wrong with it. Kevin What OS--it's working great here on four different Mac OS versions..... Peak is fine, but I don't think it does a lot more for a production sound mixer than Sound Studio does and costs a lot more..... Philip Perkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Tuffrey Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Peak is different from Pro Tools in that you do not need to set up a project folder or copy files to import audio. You appear to work directly on the selected file. In reality it makes a temp copy of the file as you work on it and then you can save (in place of original), and no extra files are created. So it's faster and tidier to use. Personally I also think it is far to expensive. It does have some useful features but in my opinion it is not as good as Wavelab on the PC which is a program I absolutely love and would buy tomorrow if it would be Mac compatible. I used to Wavelab alot in the past on pc's and found it very fast to operate. Strangely it does not seem to turn up that often over here outside of music production environments. TV folks seem to favour cool edit which became Adobe Audition now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Sorensen Posted June 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 What OS--it's working great here on four different Mac OS versions..... Peak is fine, but I don't think it does a lot more for a production sound mixer than Sound Studio does and costs a lot more..... Philip Perkins Philip, I am have OS X 10.4.11 on a Power Book G4. The trouble started when I was trying to import a song from my iTunes library. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Philip, I am have OS X 10.4.11 on a Power Book G4. The trouble started when I was trying to import a song from my iTunes library. Kevin The Felt Tip folks have been very helpful w/ me. What format is the file you are trying to import in? Philip Perkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Sorensen Posted June 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 I will contact Felt Tip, Thanks. The format is MP3 or 4, whatever itunes is?...... I'm kinda new at this. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Sorensen Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Rich, I will try that. Thanks Jimmy t. You have really peaked ( no pun intended ) my interest in the Peak sound editing program. I'm Looking at the LE version. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Gilchrist Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Kevin, Some songs are copyright protected by iTunes, and cannot be copied into other sound programs. I use a PC and when I try to copy and drag a song from iTunes that's protected, it usually shows a black circle with the international / through the center. See if another song can be copied, without the issue you're having, just a thought. Rich Kevin, You can also try burning the song to disc on a computer that's authorized for the song and reimporting it if the song has Apple's DRM scheme. This converts an m4p file to an aiff. Peak will see an aiff just fine. Best regards, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aitor Amozarrain Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Wavelab will now be mac compatible with it´s next release v7. http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/wavelab/wavelab7_preview0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle_kumpis Posted June 24, 2010 Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 I use Peak Pro on a weekly basis for editing, and I love it. I've been using it for several years as my main editing software. Even Peak LE is around $100, and it still does the basics. But Peak does a lot of things faster than Protools in my opinion. It's also a great two-track recorder since it loads up very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted June 25, 2010 Report Share Posted June 25, 2010 The problem with Peak is that it's a destructive editor (at least it was the last time I used it), plus it's kinda buggy. Pro Tools is non-destructive, at least for editing and mixing, and its rock solid. If you use certain Audio Suite processes, it does change the original file or creates a new one. Peak is definitely faster, but you'd figure that since it only does about 1/10th of what PT does. But for some things, Peak will definitely do the job well. Still, for me, Pro Tools is like an old comfortable shoe: I know what it's gonna do, there's no surprises, and I can use it almost without thinking. PTLE does a lot of that stuff fine, but it's definitely slower than Peak (and more money in some ways). --Marc W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Tuffrey Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Well it's great news that Wavelab 7 will be on the mac. I also have experienced a lot of crashes with peak but it's not the latest copy so I would not like to judge. Wavelab on the other hand has literally crashes two or three times in the 8 years that I was using various different versions starting with version 1. It is also very fast. It does everything in a temp file and only commits the change when you save. It allows you to write individual marker and waveform files which accompany the audio files making a mess on your disc but speeding up opening of audio files. I think you can elect to have marker files incorporated into the wave header as well like soundfirge used to do. I always found wavelab to be much quicker than soundforge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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