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DESCRIPTION
WireTap Studio is a professional audio recording, editing, and management solution, allowing you to manage and manipulate your audio with ease. Discretely record from a specific application, record all of your Mac system audio simultaneously, or even record from any hardware/line-in device of your choice.
After recording, edit your clips with WireTap Studio's revolutionary and completely lossless editor. Lossless master recording technology enables you to edit your recorded audio without any loss of quality or content. Come back days, months, or even years later and undo the changes you've made. You can even take a file you mistakenly recorded at a lower quality and increase the quality at any time, without the need to re-record! Even better, patent-pending LivePreview™ technology enables you to preview your audio before you capture it, saving you lots of time and stress. No longer will you need to record multiple bitrates and formats and then compare them side by side. Change the bitrate, compression format, or even add Audio Unit effects, and hear the changes in real time - before you record!
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, QuickTime 7.0 or later, 1GHz G4 or faster, or any Intel Mac
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| WireTap Studio User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 18 2009 |
NIGEL2112 This is not a review of WTS as I have not used it. I had WT Pro which I used almost daily. It was a neat little app although a tad pricey for what it did, but I bought it and used the heck out of it. Then I reinstalled my OS to unjunk my iMac, I go to Ambrosia to see about getting WTP back and now it's 'Studio' and the price has gone to almost SEVENTY dollars! I can't go back to 'Pro' it's gone and forgotten, so now I'm just left with a bad taste in my mouth. So much for Ambrosia. I don't care how good they think their stuff is, they're just plain greedy.
(Version 1.0.11) | |
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 | May 27 2009 |
You can still find WireTap Pro here: http://ambrosia.cachefly.net/wiretap/essentials/WireTapPro.dmg We recently updated it for the last time, but have not tested it against the 10.5.7 update to OS X. Comparing WireTap Studio to WireTap Pro: WireTap Studio is a full-fledged audio solution - it can record from a discrete application (WireTap Pro could only capture Mac audio generally) and an editor, as well as containing a nifty way to transfer audio to different places - email, servers, external devices, or even your iPhone. WireTap Pro has none of these features. To be more specific with that first feature - when you click "Record" in WireTap Pro, we capture *every* sound coming through your Mac. So if you're recording an interview over Skype and your microphone, and new email arrives or someone IMs you, the sounds produced by those events will be right there in your recording. WireTap Studio, on the other hand, will let you target a specific microphone and a specific application, letting you record with certainty that you'll only get what you want, and that's even BEFORE you use LivePreview, and the lossless editing we put in there.
(Version 1.0.11) | |
| Jun 3 2009 |
NIGEL2112 I have no doubt that you believe your software is the best and can give me proof, but you're now asking way too much money for the ability to record audio on the Mac. I just need a quick and simple way to capture audio, I don't need a whole studio, and I dare say a large proportion of your potential customers don't either. You may have thought it was very clever to replace (instead of add to) WTPro with a higher cost product with more features but you've just pushed a whole level of business away.
(Version 1.0.11) | |
 | May 7 2009 |
ZX Can only handle a few minutes of recording...anything above crashes the app!
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| Dec 4 2008 |
BIGDAVE56 I'm not going to comment on the app feature set except to agree with another poster that input level control and metering are lacking. There are meters, but they are tiny and uncalibrated (except for changing color at overload). There is no support for VST plugins according to the developer, yet, strangely, the installer reports several times during the process 'installing VST plugin'. Most of that reflects personal preference, but I have one major beef, and that is with the licensing process. Instead of the license lasting the life of the product, like essentially every other app on the market,you have to renew periodically. For me, that always seems to happen when I haven't used the app in awhile and am trying to capture something in a hurry. Worse, instead of telling you what the frak the issue is, the app simply crashes at launch if the license has already expired. Luckily, previous experience with this problem led me to the solution, which was to reinstall the app, which puts it in trial mode. Then you have to go to Licensing under the Wiretap menu and enter your license key (hope you saved it so you could look it up, another hoop to jump through). Only then does Wiretap tell you that your license is expired and you need to renew. Fortunately, once you get to that point, it only takes a few more seconds. But it is a total PITA that does nothing to make me want to use the app. I would go so far as to say it is the most annoying license process I have ever seen. Partly as a result of all this, I use Audio Hijack Pro a lot more. I don't have to go through the above irritation, it has usable metering (and support for plugin options like PSP VintageMeter, which I love), and I don't have to squint at it to use it. Overall, the three stars seems to be in the ballpark. It has some interesting features, but...
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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 | Nov 24 2008 |
GLOBETROTTERDK Can anyone explain the difference between WireTap Studio and WireTap Anywhere?
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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| Dec 19 2008 |
AMBROSIASW The easiest way to explain the difference is that WireTap Studio is a complete system for capturing your recordings, editing them to the exact way you want them to sound and a transferring application. WireTap Anywhere is located in your System Preferences window, and is something that allows you to create virtual audio devices. Meaning you can select a multitude of audio inputs, be it microphones to applications such as skype, and harness them into a single audio source, which can then be used by existing software. No need to have the overly complicated mixing board for 5 microphones, then try to input the sound from iChat, Skype, and iTunes. With Wiretap Anywhere, you can simply select all these, create your own virutal device and that will appear as a single item in your softwares audio input. We offer video turtorials on both products on the Ambrosia Website. Also, both products have a trial period so you can try them both and learn the difference with a more hands on approach.
(Version 1.0.6) | |
| Apr 18 2008 |
MOOGAN After trying the demo, I find that WireTap Studio is an easy to use, neatly designed application which lacks a couple of features I expected. There doesn't appear to be any obvious metering, other than calling up the source tab in the preferences window, not very convenient. No control over whether it's peak or RMS metering either. No level (gain) controls for the recording level? Live preview is an interesting feature but with some experience you should be able to judge which format and level of compression to use anyway. There are some well designed features however, and this app will suit some users exactly, worth evaluating and comparing with Audio Hijack Pro etc.
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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| Apr 8 2008 |
MACERICG One request for Mr. Welch: This is a great app for recording streaming audio -- if you know how to go back and label everything appropriately. Developer Roxio boasts that their new version of Toast has "audio fingerprint identification" to tag songs automatically -- http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/listen.html -- I've tried it, but I'm not impressed. It seems to try linking files back to Gracenote after-the-fact, rather than pulling from the streaming data labels. Any chance of building a similar (and better) feature into WireTap Studio?
(Version 1.0.6) | |
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| Apr 9 2008 |
AMBROSIASW I'm not Mr. Welch, but I'll reply :). This feature is on the feature request list. I would love to see it. Since WireTap Studio records at the system level it's not capturing any of the information from the streams to add into tags. Because of this, WireTap Studio can record from a much broader set of sources. As the application grows, hopefully this feature can be added. Thanks for the feedback!
(Version 1.0.6) | |
| Mar 28 2008 |
SWORDFISH Maybe I'm missing something, but is there a "Statistics" function? For measuring clipped samples and average sound levels (RMS power)?
(Version 1.0.5) | |
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| Mar 31 2008 |
I'm sorry, but WireTap Studio does not have a "Statistics" function. The information on the audio segment that had been recorded with WireTap Studio can be found in the audio editing window. Should you have any questions on how to use the software, Ambrosia offers video tutorials which are free to watch on their WireTap Studio page. You are also free to post questions on the webboard or write to tech support. | |
| Mar 12 2008 |
JDUB800 This is a great, solid application. Well designed and full featured. It filled a spot I had suffered for ages. Worth the cash. Once caveat - The update mechanism seems a bit fiddly. Could Sparkle not just update the app in situ instead of running an installer? Minor niggle, I know... :)
(Version 1.0.5) | |
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| Mar 13 2008 |
AMBROSIASW Thanks for your kind words regarding WireTap Studio. As for the update process, WireTap Studio consists of an application as well as a kernel extension. Sparkle is unable to update kernel extensions directly so an installer must be used.
(Version 1.0.5) | |
| Oct 31 2007 |
J.B. Unfortunately, this just isn't working on Leopard.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Feb 18 2008 |
AMBROSIASW The Current version of WireTap Studio is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
(Version 1.0.4) | |
| Oct 20 2007 |
Much better than other similar apps. If you have the equipment. (Mac OS X 10.4 or later, QuickTime 7.0 or later, 1GHz G4 or faster, or any Intel Mac) The "other" apps work fine if you don't. Ease of use, format choices, LivePreview, intuitive editing - all combined, a much better product. If you have a need (or desire) for this utility, you will really like it. It is slick and fun.
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