![]() ![]() If the Book of Ecclesiastes were written today, it might include some jaded commentary on the plethora and ephemerality of computer programs – something along these lines: “Software cometh and software passeth away, and countless as the sands are the reviews thereof.” Nevertheless, those sands do conceal an occasional treasure and one such is Martin Hairer’s Amadeus.Īmadeus is a sound file editor. I’ve been using it for over six years, for a variety of purposes, and throughout that time it has remained firmly and indispensably central to my sound-processing activities. It has an amazing breadth of abilities, combining serious power with delightful simplicity, at an astonishingly low price. ![]() To use it is to love it.Īs of mid-January 2007, Amadeus comes in two versions. The program I’ve been using all this time, properly called Amadeus II, is a Carbon program. The current version of Amadeus II (3.8.7) runs natively under Mac OS X, and also works fine under Mac OS 9.2. ![]() (If you’re still reveling in the retro experience, you can even obtain an earlier, unsupported version that runs under Mac OS 8.6.) The “II,” by the way, was added to the name years ago, when the original Amadeus, which could run on a 68K Macintosh, was updated to version 2.0 and became PowerPC-only.Īmadeus II, however, runs under Rosetta on an Intel-based Mac. The developer recognized that an Intel-native incarnation was desirable, and took the opportunity to update the program to a Cocoa interface. This update has been released as Amadeus Pro, a universal binary with a somewhat broader feature set than its predecessor. Past and Present - My affection for Amadeus is intimately bound up with how I came to start using it and the sorts of thing I’ve done with it over the years. ![]()
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