Usually for label stuff the mastering houses is using Masterlist or Sonic Solutions. I use Jam. I am right with you brother on the Digidesign/Avid Rant. They are evil. -- Jay Shaffer Mac Audio Guy mag at macaudioguy.com http://macaudioguy.com/ On Dec 23, 2003, at 7:18 AM, RRSounds at aol.com wrote: > > <rant> > IIRC, MasterList was a $1000 program when it came out. They > 'graciously' dropped the price to $500 a bit later. Then Jam came out > for around $100 with basically the same feature set. > > Digidesign, for all their great work, has a reputation for > charging the top end of what the market will bear, and > using obtrusive copy protection that rankles this long-time > (licensed, paying) user. > > Their parent company, Avid does the same thing in the > video realm. > > Is it any wonder that Final Cut Pro has been so successful, > when Avid's competing (and previously market-leading) > video editing program cost upwards of five times more, > with fewer features, when FCP was released? > </rant> > > David Reaves > TransLanTech Sound, LLC >