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Definitely one to watch.Įach document window also has its own set of transport controls, which allow you to play the file at normal speed, backwards or forwards, and to stop, fast-forward, rewind, or jump to the beginning or end of the file.

No support for regions, playlists or CD burning (yet).Ī powerful, well-designed and very usable audio editor at an excellent price, DSP Quattro is already impressive, and promises a great deal for the future.

Some third-party plug-ins cause problems.

Support for most file formats, including 32-bit 'floating point' files.

ASIO and VST support (effects and Instruments).

MIDI and SCSI support for many hardware samplers.

Powerful sound-processing functions and excellent loop-editing tools.

Each open audio file appears in its own 'document' window, which features a zoomable waveform display (with overview), a pair of level faders (the left and right channels of stereo files can be tweaked independently), level meters with clipping indicators, and an LCD-style Marker display showing the current playback position and/or the positions of selected markers. The Master window contains a stereo pair of faders to control the main output level, and buttons to access a few more commonly used features.

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Apple Power Mac G3 400MHz with 448MB RAM, running Mac OS 9.2.2, with Emagic Audiowerk 2 soundcard.ĭSP Quattro boasts a well-designed user interface, and is very easy to get started with.

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Standard VST effect and Instrument plug-ins are also supported, as well as Steinberg's ubiquitous ASIO driver system for low-latency audio cards.

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D‑Sound Pro offered a handful of built-in off-line effects, but DSP Quattro's effects are all implemented in real time. This means not only that files of practically unlimited size can be recorded and edited, but also that multiple files can be played back simultaneously, even while another is being recorded. While its shareware forbear was a purely RAM-based sample editor, DSP Quattro features a powerful new 'polyphonic' hard disk-based audio engine. The reason I mention this is that DSP Quattro, from Italian newcomers i3, turns out to be a direct descendant of D‑Sound Pro, and is developed by a team of programmers led by original D‑Sound Pro author Stefano Daino.Īlthough DSP Quattro has inherited a number of features from D‑Sound Pro (including the same comprehensive MIDI and SCSI support for external samplers), so much else has changed that it really deserves to be considered a new program in its own right. It ran without a glitch on my old Powerbook 5300, and up until a few days ago was still installed on my current Mac, and still getting regular use. So it was that I discovered D‑Sound Pro a fast, reliable and very functional sample editor which could talk to my Akai S2000, chop and change samples in dozens of useful ways, and which seemingly never crashed. All this, as Martin observed, for "a mere 30 US dollars - less than 20 quid!"

D‑Sound Pro offered comprehensive sample editing functions, a variety of built-in effects, SCSI and MIDI dump support for numerous external samplers - and even a synth oscillator for generating new sounds. This popular shareware sample editor has grown into a serious audio manipulation tool.īack in 1997, while idly flicking through the June issue of SOS, I came across a brief but very favourable review of a shareware audio editor called D‑Sound Pro in what was then Martin Russ's Apple Notes column.