Paid $30 for Amadeus II, then I paid $25 to upgrade to Amadeus Pro and now I am supposed to pay another $40 to upgrade? Not happening. And this new icon is horrendous.

I've just acquired Amadeus 2 after using version 1 for a long time in a studio I used to work at. I've used it mainly to edit/convert, denoise, batch process and perform multiple analysis (graphical and real time) on a given track/sample.

I did research thoroughly among similar applications before getting a license and tried not to bias myself for the time I've spent with Amadeus. I found that each of the other options I've considered either lacked needed features (apps in the same price range) or just had too many I didn't care for (this being the case of the more expensive ones).

Version 2 brings improvements in aesthetics, markers and plugins manipulation, repair center, wave form editing and batch processing. It probably exceeds version 1 in other realms as well, but I comment only on the features I use the most. Its "Extend to Crossing" function works good for sample edits, but it would be nice to have a "Extend to Transient" (instead of the pixel left/right thing) for larger tracks so edits could be performed faster.

This latest update (2.0.5) brought "Add Current document as input in real-time analysis tools" which is phenomenal, as I used to go around my hardware to read some analyses provided by Amadeus.

All around I believe this is a very stable, trustworthy and capable software.

At this high price tag you expect something good. Unfortunate it does even come close to be a pro audio editor. Some high end codec aren't supported, no fx layer support, no pro dithering support, no isotope 64bit support, ..
The devs needs to take a look at a good editor (Wavelab and Wave editor to name two).

In the end a price tag of about $10 would be fair and worth it.

I've had a registered copy of Amadeus Pro for about a year, and it's incredibly usable, and it's probably my favourite sound-recording app for simple work—I don't need the bells and whistles that come with other programs, so it's perfect for me. The interface is intuitive, and it's incredibly zippy and stable. I do think, however, that the developer's recent pricing tactic is not the best way he could have gone about it—I paid $40 for this app last year, and I am not inclined to pay yet another $40 to upgrade to 2.0. I agree with the other commenters that he probably should have lowered the price or kept it where it was ($40 was a fair price, in my opinion), in keeping with most developers' stances on pricing these days.

As a DJ I do a lot of audio manipulation for preparing my setup. In the past I used Wavelab -- Windows -- and it did the job fast and easy.
I tried a lot of audio editors and I cannot recommend Amadeus Pro. It is not very nice to work work. The work flow is a drag imo
I crashed several times when working on 64bit wav files too.
Please take a look at Wavelab and Audio Editor. Both are great if not best editors on the market.

I found that the audio plugin in Library/Audio/Plug-ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin crashes Amadeus Pro as soon as it starts. Any idea to resolve that issue without removing the faulty plug-ins

there is a bug with 10.6.1 when saving files as m4a, Quicktime X reads the wrong time length and some of the files show as up to 9 hours long ....they work fine in iTunes

Looping playback doesn't seem to work in Leopard. It plays once, but repeat plays are silent even though the cursor is moving across the sound.