Topic: No More Bias, Inc. | Operations Ceased

[DigiGal]

From their website, for anyone who is interested...

http://www.bias-inc.com/

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.

[scb]

not surprising.  I had issues doing simple recording through a USB interface years ago (2003?) and posted on their email list about it.  Steve Berkley (head of BIAS) bitched me out for causing trouble on his list by making up lies about his product

he later released a patch targeting the issue he had accused me of making up

not a way to run a business

[twalker]

This is too bad.  I have been a happy Bias user for many years.  I was extremely happy when they launched the ability for four point editing and stuck with them rather than jumping ship to another editor. 

Oh well, I guess Sonic Studios soundBlade is going to be in my future upgrades now.

[DigiGal]

Long Live Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor !!!

Wave Editor 2 is in beta now, in continual development it requires Lion or Mountain Lion.

[twalker]

Never used Wave Editor.  I may download the free version and mess around with it. 

As long as Peak Studio XT keeps working I will be happy at the office.  However, I now have to find something for the house, since I can't upgrade to XT. 

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Long Live Reaper !!!

 

I thought Wave Editor was nice until it came to tracking at which point it failed hard... If I'm still going to use Audacity to track a show (which is does really easily), then I didn't have any reason against Reaper and it's flexibility.

It's a personal question, I know.

[DigiGal]

Long Live Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor !!!

 

I thought Wave Editor was nice until it came to tracking at which point it failed hard... If I'm still going to use Audacity to track a show (which is does really easily), then I didn't have any reason against Reaper and it's flexibility.

It's a personal question, I know.

Not a problem tracking in Wave Editor for me, but hey ymmv.

[macdaddy]

Long Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor !!!

 

I thought Wave Editor was nice until it came to tracking at which point it failed hard... If I'm still going to use Audacity to track a show (which is does really easily), then I didn't have any reason against Reaper and it's flexibility.

It's a personal question, I know.

Not a problem tracking in Wave Editor for me.

+1

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I couldn't get it to cut on sector boundries (and had trouble getting it to do gapless tracking for a while).

Thats why I said it's a preferance. I was pretty sure it would, but I just couldn't get it to work is all.

[OOK]

Doesn't surprise me....I got a copy of soundsoap with my soundcard for my computer and it never really worked correctly.  I had to call customer support to get it working.  Once it was working it only worked with 16/44.  It never recognized 24/48...  Plus I didn't like how it removed noise...it wasn't very good.  All I got say is thank god for SoundForge10 pro and Izotope OZone and WAVES...if either of those companies went down I would be bummin....

OOK

[twalker]

I use Bias for more than editing/tracking.  I use a lot of the plug-ins in the restoration work I do in the archives.  Plus, when I was recording "classical" 4 point editing was a must.  I liked Peak because it was just a editor, not a sequencer with an editor or a multitrack recorder with an editor.  Sequoia is an amazing tool...but, it is PC.