Topic: What's your favorite Mac audio software?

[checht]

Aloha,

I'm not too overjoyed with my current set of software tools, and wondering what everyone else is using

 I use Peak 4.1 to slice and dice, but it's such a hog that I've migrated to Audio Recorder for transfers and live recordings. Fewer dropouts when the cpu meter is on 18% rather than 98%

Anyway, what solutions have you all found, and what machines are you running them on?

Mahalos

[John Kelly]

Spark XL 2.82 on an iBook 700 running OS X 10.3.4

[MattD]

Proprietary software or Spark XL 2.8.2 on a Powerbook G3 400 running OSX 10.3.2

[Chris K]

macamp_lite to play flacs and shn's

for recording/transfering/mastering i use either peak le 4.11 or sound studio on  g4 466 digital audio tower

[greenone]

I'll put in a vote for Felt Tip Sound Studio - felttip.com. I've run it on my G4/400 as early as OS 9.2 and as recently as 10.3.4, and also on my dual-USB iBook, no problems. I use it for recording, transfer and splitting...nice little program.

[scb]

spark is nice.  i hate peak...

[checht]

yeah, there's sooo much to hate!
I'm maxing my cpu at 16/48, and need to work with 24/96. The machine would probably start smoking.

Looks like Spark is proving most capable. But isn't Spark discontinued by TC? I couldn't find it on their site.

Does anyone have a link for buying Spark?

Thanks

[John Kelly]

You don't want to buy Spark.  Since the company no longer supports it, I see no problems in obtaining a "demo" copy.

Sound Studio is pretty sweet as well.

[RRobar]

Sound Studio is pretty nice. It came with my iBook so I treid it out and it works pretty easily.

[checht]

You don't want to buy Spark.  Since the company no longer supports it, I see no problems in obtaining a "demo" copy.

Ah ha! That would be why it was hard to find.   

Anybody able to help with a "demo"? I'd much appreciate it.

Thanks, Chris

[tonyvt]

I have been using SoundStudio with my iBook g4/800 12" since November and highly
recommend it.
Just got back from Camp Creek and recorded the entire festival and had no problems.
I believe that they still might have a trial version available, check it out at http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/

[greenone]

Their trial period is VERY cool, too - I think it's 30 days, but non-consecutive...so if you use it once, let it sit for a month, then use it again, that's two days on the 30-day trial. And even if you buy it, it's like $40. Supposedly does 24-bit as well though that was just added in the latest beta so it's probably not stable yet.

--Dave

[John Kelly]

14 days, but yeah, very cool of felt tip to have it work that way.

[heath]

I'm a ProTools guy...Use it on my G4 Tower (dual 450) running osx (10.3.something)

On occassion, I have been known to use Peak as well.

At work it's all about Nuendo.

For anyone plaaning on doing project studio work, I say go Protools or Nuendo.  They can't be beat, IMO.  If you're just slicing and dicing aiffs, peak, sound studio, etc are just fine 

[nic]

Digital Performer.
haven't used DP4(OSX only), but I love DP3(OS9 only)