Slight learning curve, be patient, this app is worth it!!

So, I’ve tried Waveburner, Soundblade, Wavelab, to name a few, and discovered Triumph. First off, I could not get a good sound out of Waveburner (perhaps something to do with the available Dither options), at least not easily, and the bugs left me totally frustrated, so much so that I was unable to complete a mastering job. Perhaps since its support stopped in 2009, new issues where introduced when running on newer OSs. Soundblade was too difficult to get working for me, and it didn’t have sufficient support for file formats and plug-ins. Wavelab I’ve used in the past, but didn’t want to put out the $$$ for it. Other alternatives didn’t support Audio Units, etc.

Triumph, was fairly easy to use at first then I had to read and watch some videos to move further on; I highly recommend using their Vimeo tutorials to get going properly and quickly! Although this is a bit difficult to get going properly at first, and there are some stability issues, this will be my go to app for CD Mastering moving forward. Don’t be fooled by the price, this app is fully pro! And most importantly, it “sounds” great! The Izotope processing really sounds smooth, but it also includes Apple encoders in addition.

My first project was for our Shiny Plastic People - Space Case’ album, that had a few songs mixed out to various file types (wave, AIF, CAF), Sample and Bitrates, Triumph had no issues importing and playing back any of our final mixes. This app also exports to a slew of file types, as well as sample/bitrates.

Tech support at Audio-File is top notch, they’ve helped me quickly via email, from my first bug submission to the next. Their site has the app download that allows for installations onto OS X 10.8.4, the Apple Store version (albeit identical in version number) is forced to 10.9 or newer. I had many issues running under OS 10.8, when I upgraded to 10.9.0, I have only had a couple of crashes but was able to work for hours without incident. Thanfully the app Autosaves.

I highly recommend their player, Fidelia. I’ve needed a player that accepts Audio Unit plugins for analysis of other commericial material, just a side note.

groove_guru about Triumph — Audio Editing, Mastering and Podcasting