Ambrosia ships WireTap Studio
We've been eagerly awaiting WireTap Studio, and it has arrived -- available for download and purchase today from the fine folk at Ambrosia. Like Rogue Amoeba's venerable Audio Hijack Pro (friend to podcasters everywhere & used in the production of the TUAW talkcast) and the older Ambrosia versions of WireTap and WireTap Pro, WTS will allow you to record the audio output of any application, line-in or microphone source on your Mac. The new app goes beyond AHP, however, in providing a full 'lossless master' editing environment to allow your audio to shine. You can roll back to your original source at any time, and even hear 'live previews' of your compression settings before putting the squeeze to your files.A full WTS license is $69 for Tiger or Leopard (universal binary), and WireTap Pro or Audio Hijack Pro users can up/cross-grade for $30. I'm definitely going to check it out, and if you do the same, please let us know what you think.
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We've been eagerly awaiting WireTap Studio, and it has arrived -- available for download and purchase today from the fine folk at Ambrosia....
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Thanks for the heads up OldBoy - I can confirm a problem with scheduling in WTS.
If you create a new session, then schedule all in one session, then it will not record at the scheduled time.
However, if you create a session, save it, re-open it, and then schedule it, it should work just fine.
Sorry for the inconvenience. This will be addressed in the next update.
I've downloaded the trail and it seems very powerful and friendly, but I can only make it automatically schedule recordings if i tick the 'Daily' box,, If I go for the 'one time' scheduled event or weekly option it never starts,, anybody else had the same problem or am I being a complete numpty?
( I do have licenced copy of WireTap pro on the same machine but I wouldn't have thought that was affecting it...?)
You can cross-grade for a rather heavily discounted rate of just $30 from AHP or Fission. WireTap Studio can do things that the aforementioned combo cannot, such as live preview, lossless master recording, realtime file format/compression setting changes, and so on.
October 12 2007 at 1:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIf I didn't already have Audio Hijack Pro + Fission, I'd definitely check this out. I don't see enough reason to cross-grade, though.
October 12 2007 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMichael Simmons of Ambrosia demoed WireTap Studio last night for our MUG (CapMac--Austin, TX) and I must say that it is the real deal. It's pretty rare that a software demo blows me away, but this one definitely did.
It looks like a solid winner. I just bought my upgrade ($30) from Wiretap Pro and the editor is absolutely amazing. There are videos on the site to give you an idea of how many truly useful features there are in this very reasonably priced app. Tonight I've set up some unattended recording from iTunes streaming radio that'll be waiting for me in the morning. Ambrosia rocks!
October 11 2007 at 11:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh - not to steal thunder but TUAW has missed a really important audio software release. Ardour 2.1 was released with full native OSX support (X-11 Free). For those of you who don't know Ardour it is a free and opensource DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) similar in many ways to ProTools but a lot cooler (in my opinion).
Check it out at http://www.ardour.org
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