Peak is offered in a full-featured professional edition (Peak Pro), a basic edition (Peak LE), and a limited-feature edition often included with other manufacturer’s hardware/software products (Peak Express). Its focused editing environment makes it a complementary tool to many DAWs, video editing, and multimedia applications that offer limited editing features. This fundamental difference from a DAW is what gives Peak the ability to edit digital audio so quickly.
Once a file has been edited as desired, it is simply saved, rather than having to be “bounced” or exported from a session/project. Rather than creating a “session” or “project” and then importing the audio files to be edited, Peak opens files directly. Peak’s approach to editing differs from most DAW ( Digital Audio Workstation) applications, as it edits directly at the file level. Peak is a full-featured professional stereo sample editor – and BIAS’ flagship product. was founded in 1994 in Sausalito, California, by Steve and Christine Berkley. Features were requested and implemented – more features requested and implemented, and the utility evolved into a commercial sample editing application, “ Peak”, which remains as BIAS’ flagship product to this day. Word of this new utility spread quickly, and soon colleagues were requesting copies to use themselves. Peak started out as a utility for transferring content (" samples") from a hardware sampler to a Macintosh computer, editing the samples, and returning them to the sampler for playback/performance. Homepage = [ BIAS (originally known as Berkley Integrated Audio Software) is a privately held corporation based in Petaluma, California.Ĭomposer/software engineer Steve Berkley initially created Peak for editing the samples used in his musical compositions.