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Bias can fsck themselves,
Peak, which I own, is not cheap, about twice the price of Logic Audio Big Box, and about a generation behind in technology and reliability. Peak have done audio on the Mac no favours.
Bias have survived only because Digidesign pulled the plug on Sound Designer II leaving the Mac without a decent, basic 2-track editor.
Peak couldn't even manage SDII's stability, and when I think of the times Peak has just Unexpectedly Quit on me, lost a couple of hours work, or just refused to work properly, etc., I'm angry.
The persistent bugs. Clipping on normalisation, scroll and region marking bugs, sync problems that have persisted for years...not to mention crappy ASIO drivers
If ProTools FREE had incorporated decent stereo interleaved file handling, Peak would be dead. If Spark allowed some key command customisation, Peak would be dead. And good riddance.
And every time there's some poxy update to (hopefully) fix some nasty bug that shouldn't have been there in the first place, please enter your serial number, please enter your authorisation code. Like we're protecting the goddam crown jewels, or something.
It's like London's 'public' transport (read; private extortion racket) The money's spent on ticket collectors and inspector bully-boys enforcing rediculously high ticket prices for a second-rate service that is usually late, always slow and often dirty. Route not making enough money? Cancel it.
A fair comparison indeed.
Oh, and when Bias discontinued using the Pace floppy authorisation scheme, they were 'unable' to provide me with an authorisation code - or alternative - to run Peak 2.5 on my floppy-less G4. Instead, I had to buy a $199 upgrade to Peak 3.0. Cheers.
Oh, and what about that really cool bug they had back in 2.1 something, when Peak cleared up its temp files (upon Quit) it had a habit of deleting half your hard-drive. Great professional product.
And what about that EQ plug-in that comes with Peak 3? How crap is that?
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