Mastering at Pacifica Studios

Advanced Playlist Editing & Mastering

• Mastering & "Classical Editing" cross-fade modes: Overlap/Gap & Centered cross-fades provide workflow optimization.

• Volume envelopes: easily & precisely edit volumes across entire regions, fades & cross-fades.

• Custom default x-fades: create, save & automatically apply your favorite x-fade shapes.

• New controls: pre/post roll audition, insert new event at play-head, edit sync between source document and region & more.

• Playlist waveform zooming tools: zoom to sample level, auto-zoom to cross-fade, zoom out all the way.

Editing, Processing & Sound Design Power

• Cache in RAM: ultra-fast RAM-based editing.

• Perpetual Looper DSP: ensures perfect "beat-free" sustained loops on monophonic sources — great for creating instrument sample libraries.

• Voiceover Ducking DSP: dynamically lowers music level during voice over — ideal for podcast authoring.

• Change Pitch & Convolve Envelope: apply dynamic changes over time.

• Change Duration options: algorithmic selection for optimizing results with vocals or musical content.

• Vbox™ cross-synthesis link: mix, convolve, vocode, modulate & magnitude multiply virtual instruments, audio, effects & live input for creative sound design.

• Advanced dither modeling system: ultra-accurate emulation of most popular dithering technologies

User Interface Enhancements

• Sleek new user interface — includes global contrast control, magnetic windows and more

• Vbox™ MIDI channel mapping, enhanced preset control & more.

• Custom playlist user interface: hide/show cross-fade controls & more.

• High-resolution meters: logarithmic metering with high-precision, user configurable standard calibrations.

• Support for Frontier Design's Tranzport wireless remote controller (contact BIAS for additional control surface compatibility info)

Multiple Delivery Tools

• Advanced PQ sheet/text export: custom playlist reports with durations, index points, CD-TEXT info, notes, & more. Print, save to PDF, or export as a tab-delimited file.

• Quickly export audio documents or playlists directly to iTunes.

• Drag & drop audio between iTunes & Peak playlists.

• Metadata support: read and write "tags" (artist, album, etc.) for major file types.

• Author & upload audio podcasts directly from Peak (.Mac/FTP).

• Default Save As: set preferred file type, bit depth & compression.

• Save as MP2 & FLAC file formats.