Welcome to Peak™ 2.01 digital audio tools for the Macintosh! This read-me file provides you with the latest up-to-date information about your installation.
IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES
February 11, 1999
1. Peak 2.01 requires that you have QuickTime 3.0 or later installed and Apple’s Sound Manager 3.3 or later. Sound Manager 3.3 is installed as part of QuickTime 3.0. The QuickTime 3.0 installer is available on the BIAS Product Installer CD.
2. Please always leave about 300-500k free for the Sound Manager to allocate sound channels. This means that you should set Peak’s application RAM in the “Get Info.. window from the Finder to approximately 500k less than the total free RAM reported in the “About This Macintosh” window from the Finder. For instance, if your Macintosh has 14MB free in the “About This Macintosh” Dialog, you can set Peak’s application RAM up to 13.5MB in “Get Info...” window from the Finder.
3. Only DAE version 3.4.1 is supported with Peak 2.01. Contrary to what some believe, DAE 3.4.1 works with older hardware including Nubus machines.
4. Audiosuite support requires DAE and is not fully supported in this version of Peak. Ongoing technical issues between BIAS and Digidesign should be resolved in a maintenance revision. Check the BIAS web site for updates to Peak 2.0.
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2.01 Changes
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• Peak 2.01 is now compatible with QuickTime 4.0.
• Markers are now written to a text track in QuickTime movies, and are read back in as well.
• MPEG Layer 3 encoding is now available for our Peak LE customers.
• Peak 2.01 adds support for MPEG-3 tags, including artist, album name, comment, year, and song name.
• MPEG-3 files save with 'MPG3' file type now. These files can be opened with MacAmp or other MPEG playback software.
• Problems with -39 errors on JAM images created from Peak's Playlist in Jam 2.5 have been fixed.
• A problem that could cause Peak to crash while opening a SDII file has been fixed.
• On certain DAE hardware, playback of mono files had a louder left side. This problem has been fixed.
• The Recording Notepad now functions when you are recording with DAE.
• An error message when attempting to scrub using DAE with a loop enabled has been fixed.
• Problems opening dual mono 24-bit .paf have been fixed.
• Distorted playback of 8-bit WAV has been fixed.
• Independent Normalization the left or right side of an audio document works now.
• Problems with metering in the record dialog for certain Sound Manager devices has been fixed.
• Cmd-C/V/X/A now work properly for manipulating text fields in the Edit Marker and Audio Info dialogs.
• The Convert Sample Rate dialog would not allow you to type into it when accessed from the Batch File Processor. This problem has been fixed.
• Opening a playlist that has been copied to another machine or hard drive prompts for source files and no longer asks for each file's location if the files all reside in the same new location.
• The tape-style scrubing mouse movement resolution was too coarse. The response has been changed to work better with larger or smaller monitors.
• A bug that would cause the Convert Sample Rate and Change Pitch features to crash in certain situations has been fixed.
• Making selection to end or beginning of an audio document no longer triggers a stereo selection.
• Problems with greyed out file type pop-up items in Record Settings dialog have been fixed.
• SMDI checks for devices on SCSI buses 0 through 3 now, allowing access to SMDI samplers attached to SCSI cards.
• Save and Save As... alert the user when attempting to save to a volume that does not have enough free space on the disk.
• The recording time now updates when recording split stereo files.