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Product Description:
Whether you're a musician, composer, sound designer, audio editor, podcast/multimedia producer, or mastering engineer, Peak Pro offers more creative potential than ever before. Reliably mature, yet always inspired. Feature rich, yet flexible and friendly. By itself, or with your favorite DAW, Peak Pro streamlines your workflow with industry renowned sonic quality and precision.
What's new in this version:
- Mastering & "Classical Editing" cross-fade modes: Overlap/Gap & Centered cross-fades provide workflow optimization.
- Volume envelopes: easily & precisely edit volumes across entire regions, fades & cross-fades.
- Custom default x-fades: create, save & automatically apply your favorite x-fade shapes.
- New controls: pre/post roll audition, insert new event at play-head, edit sync between source document and region & more.
- Playlist waveform zooming tools: zoom to sample level, auto-zoom to cross-fade, zoom out all the way.
- Cache in RAM: ultra-fast RAM-based editing.
- Perpetual Looper DSP: ensures perfect "beat-free" sustained loops on monophonic sources - great for creating instrument sample libraries.
- Voiceover Ducking DSP: dynamically lowers music level during voice over - ideal for podcast authoring.
- Change Pitch & Convolve Envelope: apply dynamic changes over time.
- Change Duration options: algorithmic selection for optimizing results with vocals or musical content.
- Vbox cross-synthesis link: mix, convolve, vocode, modulate & magnitude multiply virtual instruments, audio, effects & live input for creative sound design.
- Advanced dither modeling system: ultra-accurate emulation of most popular dithering technologies
- Sleek new user interface -Â includes global contrast control, magnetic windows and more
- Vbox MIDI channel mapping, enhanced preset control & more.
- Custom playlist user interface: hide/show cross-fade controls & more.
- High-resolution meters: logarithmic metering with high-precision, user configurable standard calibrations.
- Support for Frontier Design's Tranzport wireless remote controller (contact BIAS for additional control surface compatibility info)
- Advanced PQ sheet/text export: custom playlist reports with durations, index points, CD-TEXT info, notes, & more. Print, save to PDF, or export as a tab-delimited file.
- Quickly export audio documents or playlists directly to iTunes.
- Drag & drop audio between iTunes & Peak playlists.
- Metadata support: read and write "tags" (artist, album, etc.) for major file types.
- Author & upload audio podcasts directly from Peak (.Mac/FTP).
- Default Save As: set preferred file type, bit depth & compression.
- Save as MP2 & FLAC file formats.
- BIAS Reveal LE: suite of 7 audio analysis tools.
- BIAS SoundSoap LE: powerful, "one-click" audio cleaning solution.
- BIAS Freq-4: 4 band paragraphic EQ.
- BIAS Sqweez-1: compressor/limiter/expander.
- BIAS Vbox 3: plug-in routing matrix.
- WireTap Pro: capture Internet and system audio with no loss of quality or additional cable connections.
- SFX Machine LT: real-time VST plug-in with 21 unique & special effects.
- 32 VST effects (delay, limiter, vocoder, de-ess, tone generator, and more) from Maxim Digital Audio.
- Hundreds of top quality audio loops from PowerFX.
- 100+ high quality sound effects from Hollywood Edge.
- 1 year free membership from Broadjam.com - online promotional tools for serious musicians. Build your musical career on Broadjam.com.
- AMG's "ONE" sample player: real time sample playback instrument featuring a limited selection of quality loop content.
- 100 high quality production elements from Sound Ideas.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Minimum 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
- 330 MB available free disk space
- 18 ms hard drive (average seek time) or faster
- Support for third-party audio hardware may require compatible Core Audio drivers
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A word of warning if you change your CPU frequently - Version: 6.1.1, 9/8/2009 11:38PM PST
bmwickens
it works, but ..... 
- Version: 6.1.1, 4/23/2009 12:42AM PST
richter_s
Peak 6.1.1 works wonderful on my new MacMini, but I can not use my older Waves plugins again. So all users will be warned, before upgrading, if your audio plugins will work after that.
Investigating the Waves homepage told me why my Waves plugins don't work:
Peak 6 needs wave shell 6 and the plugins version 6.x.
On the other hand, if you use wave shell 5.9.7 or 6.0 you could use older Waves plugins 4.1.2 using Garage Band as host application (or some other applications). Thats very interesting to me!
Because I have many older waves plugins I had to pay much money for upgrades.
It will be very interesting if my old plugins will work with another host application, e.g. Amadeus Pro or Apple Soundtrack Pro!!!!
This combination of Peak and Waves plugins upgrading over the years is too much expensive for most hobbyists! I'm unsure if I would upgrade Peak again in the future....!
Investigating the Waves homepage told me why my Waves plugins don't work:
Peak 6 needs wave shell 6 and the plugins version 6.x.
On the other hand, if you use wave shell 5.9.7 or 6.0 you could use older Waves plugins 4.1.2 using Garage Band as host application (or some other applications). Thats very interesting to me!
Because I have many older waves plugins I had to pay much money for upgrades.
It will be very interesting if my old plugins will work with another host application, e.g. Amadeus Pro or Apple Soundtrack Pro!!!!
This combination of Peak and Waves plugins upgrading over the years is too much expensive for most hobbyists! I'm unsure if I would upgrade Peak again in the future....!
I seem to be one out! Peak works great! - Version: 6.0.4, 12/6/2008 05:05PM PST
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Ras-x
I have used this product since Peak version 4. I realise the current comments are focussing upon ver. 6 - but I must comment that I have used Peak, during live gigs, I have used it to master down to CD mix of my music, and currently I am using ver. 6 to master my weekly national radio program. Peak is a great product and the support is A1. I have had no issues with the current version. While I am currently upgrading to an iMac Core Duo, my current G4 handles peak 6 well, and believe me I am running too many top end apps and it tends to grind to a halt - but no issue with peak. I do use a variety of plug-ins and they have presented no problem. I do believe there is a small issue with the response of the metering - it does appear to have a small lag - but overall I find it hard to fault. If you are long time user of Peak you will find the interface not dissimilar to previous versions - which for a new user can be confusing (even overly complex), but like many pro apps it's a matter of diving in and using it over and over again. Suddenly it does make sense.
For my radio work, I have found the simple addition of the 'ducking' feature to be very useful. It was a pain in the butt previously in regard to layering voice overs, now it's a breeze. I love the seamless interface with Soundsoap Pro, which together make for a great suite for reviving old vinyl and cassette recordings, therefore it's great for archiving old material.
So in summary, I have used it professionally on stage, in a music recording studio and as the main tool for radio program production. I will continue to use it. I can't comment on why others are having problems - except to say it becomes necessary to keep your system uptodate and run utilities and programs like Techtool Pro (and other such programs) regularly. I have found that oiften minimises issues of program/plug-in crashes.
For my radio work, I have found the simple addition of the 'ducking' feature to be very useful. It was a pain in the butt previously in regard to layering voice overs, now it's a breeze. I love the seamless interface with Soundsoap Pro, which together make for a great suite for reviving old vinyl and cassette recordings, therefore it's great for archiving old material.
So in summary, I have used it professionally on stage, in a music recording studio and as the main tool for radio program production. I will continue to use it. I can't comment on why others are having problems - except to say it becomes necessary to keep your system uptodate and run utilities and programs like Techtool Pro (and other such programs) regularly. I have found that oiften minimises issues of program/plug-in crashes.
Yesterday, I bought a new MacBook Pro. When I tried to DEAUTHORIZE Peak from my old one, I received an alert telling me I couldn't because I had DEAUTHORIZED the program too many times!
Now, having just about every plug-in out there, plus plenty of other audio software and Adobe CS4, I am very familiar with the concept of limited AUTHORIZATIONS, but I have never heard of limiting DEAUTHORIZATIONS. The former prevents license fraud, but the latter enforces license adherence, so why incorporate such a lame and debilitating routine?
Of course, this happened on a holiday weekend, and the only instruction is to email Bias to see what they have to say about it. I guess a manual reset of the count or something. Who knows. I'm still waiting.
Sigh.