Creating Peak Pro Project

Series Summary

Peak Pro is a computer sound editing program for the Macintosh platform. It allows you to edit the waveforms of your sound source and save a file to a variety of formats. The program is used by professional sound engineers as well as home computer users looking to fine-tune their music files or band recordings. Peak Pro is an excellent way to edit digital recordings of vinyl records. Users can eliminate the pops and clicks inherent in vinyl records by adjusting waveforms within the program.

In this free Peak Pro tutorial from a experienced user, you will learn how to use Peak Pro, from creating a new project to burning down a CD when you have perfected your sound file. Matt Nichols will demonstrate the basics such as configuring Peak Pro to meet your needs, then show you how to use the waveform editing tools. You will also learn how to insert loops and use advanced features such as markers and regions. Watch this series of computer sound editing videos to make the music in your world sound better.

Video Transcript

"Peak Pro is a registered trademark of Bias Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Bias Incorporated. In this lesson I'm going to teach you how to create a new document in Peak Pro. And when you first start up Peak Pro you're going to see a screen that looks something like this. It's going to prompt you to open a file, if you've got a file that you want to work with already, you can go ahead and open that up, and in a lot of cases you're just going to want to create a new document. So I'd just go ahead and click on the cancel button here. If you go up to file and come down to new, it's going to ask you if you want to create a mono or stereo document, if you create a mono document, you're just going to have one channel, and you're going to hear that channel through both your left and right headphones or speakers. But in most cases you're going to want a stereo document so I'm going to go ahead and click there. I'm just going to create a project for me. And down here in the bottom left it's created this project at forty-four point one kilohertz, and it's in sixteen bit stereo. Most cases this is going to be suitable, but if you want to change that, you can just click here and come in and manually change that. If you want a twenty-two fifty you can come in and put that in. And there's a couple of other things you can change and mess around with, but I'm going to go ahead and click okay and you'll see down here at the bottom left it goes ahead and changes that for me. So that's how you create a new project and set it up the way you want it in Peak Pro."