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Brand: Roxio EAN: 0815227000616 Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: Roxio Manufacturer: Roxio Platform: Windows 95, Mac OS X, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, Windows NT Publisher: Roxio Release Date: April 08, 2002 Studio: Roxio Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Toast with Jam is a tasty software package indeed. Bundled with extras, at least three of which might be sold as standalone applications, Toast Platinum 5.1 is the standard CD-burning tool for the Mac. Its Aqua-enhanced interface makes it the perfect companion for Mac OS X, and it works smoothly with OS 8.6 and OS 9. Toast Titanium's design is reminiscent of a funky '50s diner jukebox. The window is resizable, with simple buttons specifying the type of CD you wish to burn. Pop a blank CD-R into your drive, drag your files into the window, hit that big, red glowing record button in the corner, and you're cooking. Toast supports all major CD formats, including MP3, Mac/ISO hybrid, and Video CD (playable on many DVD players). If the above were all there was to this package, we'd be satisfied and ready for a nap. But included here are Jam and Peak LE VST 3.0 (from Bias Inc.), for those who really want to tweak the data on their audio CDs, and Magic Mouse Discus, which lets you design great-looking labels. Jam lets you create smoothly blended transitions between tracks with the cross-fade editor, and mark up to 49 index points within a track. The program supports 16- or 24-bit Sound Designer II, AIFF, WAV, or MP3 files, making it extremely versatile. When you're finished tweaking, Jam creates a disk image for Toast to burn. Although it is easy and convenient to burn files directly from Toast, you will have more control over audio files if you work first from Jam and then export the disk image to Toast. Even if you don't plan on creating any cross-fades or index points, you can still listen to your entire disc and make volume adjustments, as Jam gives direct control over the final gain for each track. This feature is very flexible. Clicking on the gain amount in the track detail brings up a slider that lets you boost up to +12 dB or lower to -96 dB. You can also adjust left and right channels independently of each other. Peak LE VST 3.0 is a trimmed-down version of the Peak software from Bias Inc., and it's a very cool and powerful tool. Peak is launched directly from Jam or on its own, and supports a dizzying array of file types, including many not supported by Jam or Toast. These can, of course, be converted to a Toast-friendly type. Although some features in this light version are disabled, you can still manipulate your audio in a number of ways, such as changing gain, normalizing, and adding DSP effects like Reverse and Invert. You can also create regions that Jam will import as tracks. If you own a Mac and do a lot of CD burning, you want Toast with Jam. It's an extremely good value, and it's very fun to use. Best of all, taking full advantage of the features and extras in this package will lend your CDs a solidly professional quality. --John Bosch Amazon.com Product Description: Roxio's Toast with Jam offers the full CD- and DVD-burning capabilities of Toast 5 Titanium, plus pro audio editing and mastering for the Mac. Import your favorite file formats such as AIFF, WAV, MP3, or Sound Designer II. Edit in real time using multiple plug-in formats with included Bias Peak LE VST. Adjust tone, enhance vocals with concert reverb, soften dynamic peaks, and create other special effects. Arrange your tracks with cross-fades and index points and burn a glass master in the background while you do other work. Edit PQ subcodes or set the gain for each channel of each track. Jam 5 allows you to arrange and master pro audio CDs on the Mac. Advanced digital editing and arranging capabilities let you produce professional-quality commercial CDs and demos. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - User experience may varyI read the reviews of the people who were disappointed with Toast/Jam as a professional grade audio tool. I have no reason to doubt their veracity. But I got it to create killer (excuse the phrase) jams on my Mac. It installed great, I just fire it up, cross-fade, adjust gain, and burn. It does everything I ask of it and I am very happy with the results. If you, like me, want to lay some tunes on friends (in a completely legal way per the RIAA Nazi scum, of course!), this will probably just what ... Read More Rating:  - Jam sold on False Pretenses:beware!The primary feature distinguishing Jam from Toast or from any of the other vanilla disk burners is its long-standing ability to meld professional split-stereo files into the track list, i.e. a left and right pair of mono files with .L and .R suffixes. This is the main reason that Jam existed, since it otherwise duplicates practically all the features of Toast. Roxio prominently advertises this feature, and provides directions for implementing it in their documentation. It simply does not work. I ... Read More Rating: - NO STARS FOR (BURNT) TOAST WITH JAMBACKGROUND: I am a professional guitarist/composer (and an attorney). My various efforts have received favorable reviews from THE NEW YORK TIMES (among many other diverse sources). I made the grave mistake of buying TOAST WITH JAM for mastering because Roxio touts it (on the box) as "Professional Audio CD Mastering" for the MAC. (I read somewhere that it is an äward winning program.) FACTS: JAM FAILED TO PERFORM THE MOST BASIC FUNCTION OF SUCCESSFULLY PLACING A PROTOOLS LE ... Read More Rating:  - Easy as 1, 2, 3!!!!!This product is almost universally compatible!! The window is resizable, with simple buttons specifying the type of CD you wish to burn. Click audio, data, copy, or other, and the button turns blue. Pop a blank CD-R into your drive, drag your files into the window, hit that big red glowing record button in the corner, and you're cooking. What a simple way to burn CD's.... even off your PC! Rating: - Toast with JamWith good reason, Roxio's Toast is probably the best selling CD and DVD Macintosh burning software in the world. Roxio has always been miles ahead of their competition and it looks like they just raised the bar again. Their latest release, Toast with Jam, adds even more functionality to their already powerful product. Toast Titanium already featured the ability to burn photo, video, music and data to CD and DVD. The new version includes pro audio features that will allow users to edit, ... Read More |
