Received my Peak 5.0 upgrade yesterday. Figured I would take a stab at mastering with it this AM.
One of the features Bias brags on is their ability to now burn without JAM. I found it possible to create the playlist, but at the same time it's just as time consuming as before. The only difference is now you have a graphical way of doing things. However, this is still a far cry from what Emagic had with Waveburner. In fact, nothing I've used comes close to the old WaveBurner Pro that ran in Mac OS 8/9 (that includes the POS that Apple is now calling WaveBurner). I never was able to get a CD to burn from within Peak and ended up saving the file as a JAM image and burning it... this didn't make me very happy.
It will now safely open files larger than 2 GB. This is a boon for those of us using 24-bit files. Not sure what Steve did because he claimed until there was a universal standard, he wasn't going to change his application, but apparently he did.
I've had one repeatable crash after a bounce that I've sent off to Bias. Now, I'll see how long it takes before I can get that resolved.
Overall, this update has not been a plus for me except in one area. I'll keep folks posted as I get more use out of the application and get use to more of the subtle features.
Wayne