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Hear greatly improves audio quality in movies and music throughout all of your Mac OS X applications. With Hear, music is richer, movie sound and dialog is clearer and games will blow you out of your chair!
- 3D Sound - Like movies? like'em more with virtual cinema quality sound experience. Sound will approach you from all angles, even from behind. You are there with Hear.
- Equalizer - Perfect your sound with Hear's studio quality N-band equalizer with built-in peak limiter. You've got control.
- Speaker Correction - Control speaker resonance to increase frequency range and
What's New
Version 1.1.3
- Fixed bug with previously activated serial numbers.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
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| Downloads:41,204 |
| Version Downloads:4,550 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Demo |
| Date:13 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $19.95 |
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Hear greatly improves audio quality in movies and music throughout all of your Mac OS X applications. With Hear, music is richer, movie sound and dialog is clearer and games will blow you out of your chair!
Hear more with Hear.
- 3D Sound - Like movies? like'em more with virtual cinema quality sound experience. Sound will approach you from all angles, even from behind. You are there with Hear.
- Equalizer - Perfect your sound with Hear's studio quality N-band equalizer with built-in peak limiter. You've got control.
- Speaker Correction - Control speaker resonance to increase frequency range and enhance sound.
- Center Channel Control - Control the volume and width of the sound coming from your own virtual center-stage for performance-grade audio effects. A concert in your house.
- Virtual Subwoofer - No Sub? No problem. Let Hear use your existing speakers to boost your bass. Don't you need more thump in your life?
- Ambience - Fine tune reverb to emulate any venue from phone booth to concert hall. Either way, it's music to your ears.
- Fidelity control - Music the way it was meant to be heard. Restore frequency, coloring and intensity lost during the recording process. Put more "hi" in your "fi".
- Much more - Hear can control the volume and quality of each application independently. You can control enable and disable each effect independently. You can apply the effects in any order for dramatic results. You can define and recall presets at any time. You can enjoy Hear's effects through your computer's speakers, headphones and external speakers. And you can do it all in an easy-to-understand user interface.
Hear more with Hear.
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Bluzy reviewed on 02 May 2012
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Penguirl reviewed on 30 Apr 2012
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Ronl reviewed on 12 Apr 2012
Works system wide too.
I especially like being able to use the curves instead of sliders.
I had thought there was a problem with the app but it was actually simply allowing me to hear how badly some of my iTunes track were (i.e. I hadn't noticed it before because the iTunes Equalizer had muffled some of the digital noise).
A caveat... don't give up on this app because it takes some trial-and-error to achieve the best possible setting for your personal taste. It's worth the time... especially since you have 30 days to demo it (unlike the $%^$#% App Store's no demo policy).
I highly recommend this app.
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Kenmacgilroy reviewed on 28 Mar 2012
If you haven't tried Hear, turning it on is like changing from Mono to Stereo. It is incredible! If you listen to music or watch movies on your Mac, Hear is an absolute necessity!
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One last thing I learned was that if you are having problems with running other programs with Hear like Audio Hijack, go into Hear and turn the program off before opening the other program and the other program will run fine. The off bottom is on the top left in the application.
Enjoy a great program!
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Abbott reviewed on 13 Mar 2012
I was thinking of buying a better set of speakers for my Mac Pro. For the price, I decided to give Hear a try. This little piece of software saved me big bucks on a new set of speakers! To the point that sometimes I find myself just enjoying listening to my old Alien speakers because they sound terrific (they're good to begin with).
At first it wasn't clear how the application was working, as no Pref Pane or other "control" mechanism is visible other than the application. Then I realized that it's [probably] just modifying the system's equalization curve, so no further controls are needed.
The only thing I can think of that would make this better is to be able to set different curves on a per-application basis. While it's nice to focus on iTunes playback, I may not want my video editing and other applications to use the same curve. But, after all, that's what Apple does by default, so I can't fault ProSoft too much for this.
Overall, I highly recommend this application.
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Diddimus reviewed on 13 Mar 2012
http://www.prosofteng.com/resources/sparkle/files/Hear_1.1.3_Build_831.dmg
I was very impressed by both the courtesy and speed of the service
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Espiridion reviewed on 10 Mar 2012
-After installing, I had to re-enter my registration information and restart my Mac.
-Still can't resize Hear's GUI. Working the eq. with more than 10 bands is a bit annoying.
Not much has improved. In 2008 I gave Hear 3 stars. So much potential yet so disappointing. The price is more appropriate these days. IIRC that's how much I paid originally thanks to crossgrade pricing.
For music I find Hear unusable. I already detailed this issue in a previous review. I'll just quote another user (Xenophile):
"I will echo Esperidion's observation that Hear yields over-processed sounds. For those interested in listening to music that is faithful to the original intent of the recording artist, Hear is worse than useless."
For music, Digital Power Station is my choice. Unfortunately my old trick of routing audio with Jack to DSP-Quattro and processing it with my plugins is not working under Lion. I recently bought plugins from URS, Melda, ArtsAcoustic and others and would like to have this functionality again.
Hear has plenty of features, is stable, easy to use, and may be a good value for some given the price reduction. Overall I'll give it 2 stars once again. As an effect it's OK, but there are plenty of alternatives with better sound quality.
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Afcgbbob reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
First, Hear is a stand alone product. It is not a Haxie so it does not put anything in the System. Also if you read the Docs., you would find that it is recommended to delete to delete any sound tweaking programs like Digital Power Station, iWOW, Audio Hijack Pro and AstoundSound because they will cause conflicts with Hear.
Hear is not meant for just iTunes. It is designed for enhancements to all audio programs such as DVD Player, VLC, QT, iTunes and and any other sound programs that can make use of Hear.
I read over the comments below and I too have had the problem where Hear is not functioning correctly where you change or adjust a setting and there is no different in the sound. When that happens, you just need to reinstall Hear. If you are not sure of how, call the Tech Dept. and they will walk you through it or send you an email on how to. The point is once you do that, you will find quite a difference in how Hear works and your problems should be solved.
I helped beta test Hear 1.05 before they began to do it in shop. I sent in many suggestions and I was very pleased to see some of them worked into the program.
My favorite correction can be found under the mixer tab where you see what apps are in use by Hear. In 1.0.5 Hear showed every app that was running. I made the suggestion for Hear to use a Little AI and not list programs not used by Hear like Office and other apps that did not deal with sound.
At first they were not sure if they could do that at the current version of Hear. But, as new versions came out I first noticed that you could click on the arrow to the far left and it would shut it down to Hear.
Now they had taken it to the level I initially recommend. Now Hear on list applications that are audio related. It took Pro Soft some time, but they finally got it right.
As far as the nature of the "looks" of Hear, It is my opinion that those comments made below are just from people who just need something to nag about.
The over all layout of Hear is clean and easy to move about from one tab to another. If you are not experienced in the science of Audio then take some time a read the manual. I know we Mac people like to just like to plunge into a program but, there are times where reading a manual can give you a wealth of information and help you to understand any program better.
I have found the best way to tweak Hear is by having the sound source going as you adjust Hear at the same time. It makes it much easier because you hear the changes in real time. Hear does have a learning curve to it, but, if you just sit down and take the time to see what each tab does to your sound, then you will learn how to make your own sets and Pro Soft would love to look at them.
So before you bitch about a program because you cannot resolve an issue and refuse to call Tech Support then you may as well be the rear end of a Donkey and if there are people out there who wish to grade me negatively, go ahead, what I write and write in the future will always be truth and if something sucks I will expose it for what it is. I have reviewed SW since the 128k Mac in Print and in Ezines and they came to me to write for them. Even inside MacGames asked me to write for them. So, if you think my writing is full of crap ask the readers across the U.S. and international. End of Line...
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Really? Could have made this review into an eBook.
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Captain-Image reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
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Thanks.
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In the coming years I think.
Hear is not compatible with Front Row and not compatible with Snow Leopard's Quicktime X.
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And there's no update from Joesoft for more than one year now! This is not serious. And they still continue to sell it on their website!
It is sad, because it is a beautifully designed products, but it just doesn't work anymore. :( Hopefully, there's some companies that put a real development on their product and take really care of their consumers. Audio Hijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba Software is the alternative and it really works the way you want!
Goodbye Joesoft! It was (almost) a pleasure using (and paying!) your software.
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So I will use SRSiWOW - that works - without restarting my Mac every time!
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We are seeing a few isolated cases, where, after some amount of time (usually a few weeks or so), that Hear requires a restart. We are looking into the cause of this and once determined, can look for a bug fix for that. Its not occurring for most customers and therefore it makes it trickier to track down and reproduce.
Cheers,
Gordon from Prosoft
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We are running several test machines with this set up and not seeing any issues-- Please contact our support team as we'd love to see what is going on -- Also, try a restart, as that may rectify the problem---
Cheers,
Gordon from Prosoft
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I installed the full paid version.
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Gordon from Prosoft
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Thanks for the post about Skype. We are looking into this right now to work on a fix for this.. Thanks for the heads up--
Gordon from JoeSoft/Prosoft
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