About This Particular Macintosh 6.04 - eDisk

QuickTime. Once launched it runs in the background and appears in your sequencer as aMIDI output, along with your hardware modules.Memory allocation, polyphony, MIDI setup, and ReWire are configured in the DS-1 controlpanel. Individual applications access the Keyboard (virtual keyboard for auditioning),Mixer (sixteen-channel multi-timbral sampler with effects), Editor, and MIDI Processor.The sampler is compatible with AIFF, WAVE, SD II, and Sample Cell. A demo version isavailable at the Bitheadz Web site 1 , and a more extensive review can be found in the June1999 issue of Macworld. In my opinion it’s a great buy, but only if you have a lot of RAM.Stereo Hard Disk RecordingAlong with sequencing, hard disk recording was the other principal area of electronic musicpioneered on the Mac. Digidesign’s venerable Sound Designer was the pioneer, but it wasdiscontinued a few years back. The new flagship Macintosh audio editor is Bias Peak. Theonly drawback is that Bias has yet to update the software to OS 9 (see my Segments 2 inATPM 5.12 for more on OS 9 incompatibility). Since I made the upgrade myself, I haven’tpurchased Bias Peak yet. Instead, I’ve been using Felt Tip Sound Studio, a shareware audioeditor that provides the basic functions I need.With Sound Studio, I can open, edit, and save AIFF files, as well as convert sample rates,apply equalization and effects, and normalize tracks. Add SoundApp PPC as an audio for-1. http://www.bitheadz.com2. http://www.atpm.com/5.12/segments.shtmlATPM 6.04 ← 53 → Columns: Digital Audio and the Mac(III)