Myriad for Mac

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• Not Bad

  MoonwatcherJanuary 25, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a very useful tool, if you work with audio files a lot. For the price it gives you lots of options, and the audio quality is quite good. The only thing I hope is that they will not keep upgrading to the next version, and make us pay the upgrade costs. Other than that, this little audio app is excellent !

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• Not Bad

  MoonwatcherJanuary 25, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a very useful tool, if you work with audio files a lot. For the price it gives you lots of options, and the audio quality is quite good. The only thing I hope is that they will not keep upgrading to the next version, and make us pay the upgrade costs. Other than that, this little audio app is excellent !

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• Top notch app by a rare breed of developers!

  Les MayJuly 9, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Sample Manager stands out as one of the best shareware apps for OSX. It's exceptionally useful for editing and processing many audio files at once. Sample Manager allows you to automate common tasks which have to be done file by file in most audio apps. After the initial setting of parameters there's no need to go through the usual tedious steps like making selections and picking commands from program menus over and over again. You don't even have to give "open" and "save" commands to work with your files. I believe the app was first designed specifically to handle the needs of sound sample users, but it's so feature-rich it can be a huge time saver for people doing many different kinds of work with audio. I actually use Sample Manager to produce 30-second mp3-format previews of songs for music marketing websites. The app handles cropping the songs at the desired points, adding fade in and out to the resulting clips, converting from aiff to mp3 format, saving the finished previews, and even renaming the files for me, all automatically. This sequence of tasks was unbearably monotonous and time consuming for me before Sample Manager. Now I can load hundreds of audio clips into Sample Manager, click a button, and walk away from my computer while the program does all the work of processing the individual files for me. I know of no other audio app with this set of essential features. One of the things I appreciate most about Sample Manager is the high standard its authors set for the development and support of their product. The developers have promptly responded by email to my few support requests as well as to each of my numerous feature requests. They have taken the time to explain how things work in detail, to clarify how they can best provide the enhancements I need, and in a matter of weeks have added substantial additional features I requested and released a new version of the app. This kind of highly responsive, quality software development is rare in the computing world and ought to be encouraged and rewarded by buying Sample Manager.

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• Sample Manager is a massive TIMESAVER!!

  bitslaveMarch 31, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I can't say enough about how good this application is. Before I purchased Sample Manager I was working on 50gig of drums from old tracking sessions and I thought my wrists would break off or stop working from the pain. I finished the last 10gig in a tiny fraction of the time with Sample Manager. The 'trim' function is amazing, it can be used in batch mode or one sample at a time. Regarless of your noisefloor you can quickly trim samples to be exactly as needed. There are other batch processors and they all have less features and they cost quite a bit more. Just comparing the speed of Sample Manager to Peak is like day and night. Sample Manager is so fast I haven't batched in Peak since, and I highly doubt I ever will. Being an origional owner of Alchemy (showing my age) I can say, this is indeed in the spirit of Alchemy and the mindset is very clear, just like Alchemy. Anything you might want to tweek or batch can be adjusted. You can even batch the root notes or edit them 1 at a time which is still 10x faster than the workflow of Peak. This is the best thing to come into my toolkit in a long time, and believe me, I have lots of tools!

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