Topic: What's your favorite Mac audio software?

[heath]

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

the few times I've run performer, I've really enjoyed it.  Just not a regular user, that's all... 

[John Kelly]

Peak sucks.

[kennedy]

i agree that peak sucks, i gave it a chance, i ended up using these to om my g4:
sound studio for 16/48 and spark xl for 24/48

[heath]

what do you guys dislike about peak?  not that I'm a fluffer or anything but the times i have had to use it, it didn't seem to be that bad.  It did exactly waht it was supposed to do for me... 

[John Kelly]

Have you tried loading a file bigger than 2 gigs?

[MattD]

I have never been successful doing anything that I wanted to with peak: open file - fails, drop markers - fails, recording - fails and crashes ...

[scb]

>>what do you guys dislike about peak?  not that I'm a fluffer or anything but the times i have had to use it, it didn't seem to be that bad.  It did exactly waht it was supposed to do for me...<<

i don't like peak because Steve Berkley (head of BIAS, who makes peak.  the B in BIAS is Berkley) lied to me for months about a bug we discovered and claimed it didn't exist.  then he tried to blame me and claim i was just trying to cause trouble on his list by asking for help.  months later they released a patch for a newly discovered bug, which just happened to be what i ws talking about months before

this had to do with USB recording (which never worked right for me, and apparently still doesn't).  But i've found it to crash and generally not work as advertised

[checht]

For me, the biggest issue with Peak 4.1 is that its such a cpu hog. Earlier versions crashed merrily, after messing with your files. Not such a problem anymore, but the way it uses resources is obscene.

Peak is all aqua'd out, and probably does all its graphics through calls to the API, the way Apple wants. This creates huge demand on resources, making it less than certain that real-time application demands will always be met.

In other words, with Peak I get way too many drop outs on DAT transfers.