James Steele wrote:Very interesting! I'll have to try it out. I was almost sold on Amadeus Pro, which has a very similar interface, slightly less functionality (no graphic fades, for example) and a $40 price tag, but the multitude of extras in Wave Editor are definitely worth it. It also compiles (and burns!) Redbook CD masters with all the trimmings, and its inherent setup lets you do this a lot like Roxio's great Jam program (and now, of course, Toast). I just had to get accustomed to doing everything slightly differently. At first, it looked like many of these features were missing, but the selection tool (which actually has "handles" to allow you to move the beginning and ending of a selection without having to type in numbers, like Peak does), the fades, which you add non-destructively, alter to taste and apply at your convenience, were actually better done than Peak.
My main stipulations were that it would be able to perform exact edits to a time-based grid, perform graphic fades, be able to utilize multiple AU plugs, import and export in any format, sample rate and bit-depth and perform normalization, repair and gain alteration. It took me a few hours of messing around with the demo to make sure it would be worth it to purchase, especially after having used Peak for so long as my waveform editor. It also has iZotope's SRC and dithering algorithms built in (a HUGE plus, since this saves me from having to add Ozone in my mastering chain), imports and exports any audio format and is completely Cocoa. I decided to go looking around for an alternative and came across Audio Engineering's Wave Editor, which is about half the price of Peak and seems to do at least as much. I've been bummed out for a while about Peak: 4 isn't UB, 5 is rather buggy and upgrading to 6 is kind of expensive, even though I'm sure they've smoothed out a lot of bumps.
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