Mac's 6th Peak: Peak Pro 6

Now, I am totally an XP guy and this isn't going to change, so the fact that I will write nice things about the new Peak Pro for Mac has nothing to do with me. The coolest thing (I guess) is that Bias has released the new version of Peak Pro at a rather short distance (in time) from the previous... just about the same as things rolled on with Sony's Sound Forge.

Peak Pro 6 can easily be used as a standalone tool or in conjunction with your favorite Mac DAW and it promises to streamline your work and make things more intuitive and overall operations easier. Intended for musicians, music composers, sound designers, audio editors, Podcast producers, even web designers or mastering engineers, Peak Pro 6 is sworn to let everybody use their creativity at full potential.

The new version sports a partially new look, giving you better control over features like fades, envelopes and other editing tools especially created for making your tasks easier, no matter whether we're speaking about playlists, mastering, looping and so many other audio editing procedures.

And especially when it comes down to the looks of Peak Pro 6, anyone can feel the difference between the plain and even dull (and another even: rather hardly visible) commands and buttons in some Windows similar applications and the high-contrast controls found in the Peak.

As Bias themselves describe the new GUI-work, it now sports "global contrast control which allows customization of user interface from dark to light, Vbox for MIDI channel mapping, enhanced preset control & more, "magnetic" windows that snap together for optimal screen management, custom playlist UI with hide/show cross-fade controls and high-resolution meters with high-precision logarithmic metering and user configurable standard calibrations."

I somehow start to envy the audio editors using Macs because it's quite clear that they're working with a lot more ease due to better GUIs...!

Unlike many similar pieces of software, the Peak Pro 6 is a RAM-based editing program, which makes it faster and will let you "speed it up" more easily without you having to change your entire computer by just adding RAM as needed.

Other handy trick-tools with which Peak Pro 6 comes in fully loaded refer to ducking DSP for voiceovers, cross-synthesis and vocoding modulation and mixing. Basically, there are a lot of small but powerful and efficient components whose sole purpose is to make an editor's life easier and grow the productivity.

Finally, as Peak Pro is a Mac software, there is an almost perfect integration with iTunes allowing users to easily and conveniently drag-and-drop files between iTunes and their Peak Pro playlists. For further information, you can check the Bias' webpage for Peak Pro 6.