Bias Peak Studio

Peak in its last release had a cleaner look, but I imagine something like this is what popped to mind when you heard Peak. Photo.Peak is dead; long live Peak.Small music tool makers don’t always last forever, the victim of any number of circumstances that can cause them to fold. There do seem to be a lot of casualties of favorite Mac waveform editors over the years, however. To that group, you can add perhaps the most famous and long-lasting Mac audio editor of them all: BIAS’ Peak.

Now redirects to a short message:BIAS, Inc. Has ceased operations. We would like to thank all the BIAS customers and friends for the opportunity to have served the audio community for over 16 amazing years.The BIAS Authorization Manager Server is functioning for authorizing and de-authorizing BIAS products at this time.Follow these links to access the FAQ and updates areas of the BIAS site.Peak joins Apple’s own Soundtrack Pro and (arguably) WaveBurner and, once upon a time, Macromedia SoundEdit, along with tools like Digi’s Sound Designer II and TC Electronic’s Spark. (While not ever officially discontinued, Apple first moved Soundtrack Pro to the Logic suite, then quietly eliminated it entirely when Logic Studio moved to the App Store; it can be considered “missing and presumed deceased.” Macromedia SoundEdit 16 can be traced back to the ).Oh, yeah, and perhaps because it was so unsurprising as news, I missed the fact that Adobe killed its little-used, generally-disliked (ahem).

The DDP Player can import (loadback) a DDP 2.00 fileset made by any software, like Bias Peak Studio (XT), Sonic Studio HD, SADiE, Sequoia or Pyramix. You can playback tracks, audition gaps, see all PQ codes, ISRC, MCN and CD-Text data. I often describe BIAS' Peak as a 'Swiss Army Knife' of a program, as it goes far beyond the stereo audio-file editing capabilities that are at its heart. Certainly, if you simply want to trim or edit audio files and then produce a pre-master for CD duplication it will do the job perfectly, but it is also a powerful sound-design tool popular with sample developers and film sound-effects creators.

(I do have a soft spot for Soundbooth; it had some great ideas, but after an initial release seemed unsure of what its direction and audience were.)For old time’s sake, here are the two most recent reviews in Macworld, written by me:20092006Side note: time flies.That’s the bad news. The good news is, the waveform editor is still very much alive on the Mac. And there’s still something to be said for dedicated waveform editors, even when multi-purpose DAWs share some of the same functionality. If you’re just editing individual audio files, if you’re batch processing, if you’re working with complex asset management, if you’re performing tasks like CD mastering, very often these tools provide unmatched capabilities or simply speed up workflows.Here are some of the tools still at your disposal on the Mac (to say nothing of Windows and Linux):. free, open source. This is literally the first tool (alongside SoundHack) I ever used on Mac OS X, back when it didn’t run anything else. Today, it’s a remarkably mature, elegant, and easy-to-use audio tool, and it’s just US$29.99 on the Mac App Store.

is $59.99, also on the Mac App Store. If you haven’t used it lately, it’s gotten a complete overhaul and cleaner, prettier, more usable UI. With multitrack editing, batch processing, and repair, it does what Peak did but often more easily and at a fraction of the price. It also admirably handles just about any file you can throw at it. $79 buys you some seriously-powerful features, from iZotope sound engine and advanced sample rate conversion to mastering features, unique “smart edit” and layer-based editing, and others. survives even as Soundbooth is gone.

It brings the best-loved editing power of the Windows version, at last, to the Mac. And true to its lineage with sibling Premiere, there’s lots of video-style editing and post-production power.

You can even play HD video right in the editor without transcoding, and you get session management, broadcast-compliance, and speech alignment features that will appeal to video workflows. There’s quite a lot more in Audition, too, making it practically a DAW. And you can pick it up as part of a CS suite, including Adobe’s recently-introduced subscription-based pricing. Updated –. Reader Daniel Courville suggests this wave editor, with its own lovely features like automatic silence detection, effects stacks, metadata editing, high-quality DIRAC stretching, clip lists, and more. And very cool: it runs not only on Mac desktop, but on an iPad or in your browser, too. $79, with a trial available.

I nearly forgot about, as its entrance on the Mac is fairly recent. Its interface is easily the least-friendly of any of the options here, but some swear by its industrial-strength mastering capabilities. is almost a full-fledged DAW, but focused on audio editing features, and several readers recommend it. With lots of editing tools, live recording functionality, and CD mastering, it puts the waveform front and center in a way a DAW might not.Audition and Wave Editor also have free trials if you want to, um, audition them first.

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