
The developer recognized that an Intel-native incarnation was desirable, and took the opportunity to update the program to a Cocoa interface.
#AMADEUS PRO WAVEFORM EDIT MAC OS#
(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 current version of Amadeus II (3.8.7) runs natively under Mac OS X, and also works fine under Mac OS 9.2. The program I’ve been using all this time, properly called Amadeus II, is a Carbon program. To use it is to love it.Īs of mid-January 2007, Amadeus comes in two versions. It has an amazing breadth of abilities, combining serious power with delightful simplicity, at an astonishingly low price. 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. 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.

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