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Charismac ships Discribe 4.0 mastering app

updated 10:36 am EST, Fri January 26, 2001


Charismac Engineering is now shipping its $100 CD mastering software Discribe v4.0. Introduced at Macworld Expo SF earlier this month, it offers an enhanced interface, the ability to drag and drop MP3 files to create audio compilation CDs, and includes AudioScribe v2.0, a direct-to-disk recording utility that allows you to record vinyl, tape or voice to hard disk, and eventually to CD with Discribe. The $40 competitive upgrade is available at a special price of $30. [5-disc demo]


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    Direct-to-Disk

    AudioScribe v2.0, a direct-to-disk recording utility that
    allows you to record vinyl, tape or voice to hard disk,
    and eventually to CD with Discribe.

    I must take issue with the name of this feature. If you're capturing audio to your hard disk, you're obviously NOT using a "direct-to-disc" method. Obviously, they're spelling it "disk", not "disc", but still -- this feature IMPLYS that you'd be capturing your audio source DIRECTLY TO YOUR CD-R DISC. It's simply an audio CAPTURE program, not a "direct to disc/disk" application -- where else would they capture to, RAM? tape? your printer? :P

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    Direct to "DISK" not DI

    Disk means HD and Disc means CD, there's a difference...

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    Discribe Sucks

    Toast 5 Titanium due in less than a month ROCKS...I got to play with it @ MacWorld and it BLOWS everything else away...burn CD's WHILE YOU USE YOUR COMPUTER and more.....DIscribe is ugly, has a dumb-a** interface and crashes left and right, plus your computer is tied up while you burn. Skip it...

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    Toast 5 Not All That

    Toast 5 is okay, but it still doesn't duplicate multisession CD-ROMs. NeroMAX, however, does.

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    What's it got over Toast

    I've read the Discribe web pages the article links to, and it doesn't sound as though Discribe has anything to offer that Toast 4 OEM, which came with my CD-R drive, doesn't. (OK, it ships with an audio recorder, but I already have the excellent FeltTip Sound Studio.) Is there any reason I'd want to upgrade to Discribe instead of Toast 5 Titanium?

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    Toast 5 is better

    I downloaded the demo of discribe 4 a few weeks ago and trashed it few days later, because it doesn't work with my CD-RW. I have an FW Ext. QPS 8x4x32, mind you, not a rare CDR drive! Discribe Tech support people are nice, friendly and responded fast to my emails, telling me that QPS didn't send them the drive to do the test on (huh?) well, but guess what? at Macworld SF/2001 it worked fine w/ some other driver... Ok, maybe I don't know what I'm doing, but when you install Discribe 4 for FW drives, there is no driver being put in your System! (like the Discribe tech support rep wrote me) But you know what? forget it... I got ahold of Roxio Toast Titanuim 5.0b2 (don't ask how hehe...) and besides the fact that it's has a beautiful design, it rocks! I couldn't believe it when I burned cds in the background while doing other stuff on my machine... I can't wait for the final release! (oh, and by the way, so far it didn't crash:)

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    Plextor 8/4/32 is garbage

    Ahh, the firewire QPS 8x drive. Does it have a Plextor mechanism? Because every drive made with the 8-4-32 plextor mech. is a pile of s***. I have the same thing, but sold under the lacie name. It sucks. I have not to this day been able to burn a single audio CD with it. I call them to complain but they simply tell me that if I had bought a SCSI drive I wouldn't have this problem. Apparently the problem is the drive's bus that shuttles between the plextor and the firewire...don't really know what that means but I'm giving those a******* another call tomorrow to see if I can get my drive replaced with another model that does what it is advertised to do.

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    I don't think so...

    I really don't know... I do know, however, that I had no problems burning CD's ever since I got this QPS drive (Apr 2000) not even once! I guess I'm lucky?

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    Discribe is terrible

    Discribe is the worst software for the mac I have ever tried. I'm sure they have improved somethings with this newer version but the previous version crashed often. The interface was completely counter-intuitive. I couldn't recommend going with this software to anyone. There are too many better alternatives. I use Toast 3.8 and it works reliably. I know the newer versions of Toast are better but I only use my CD burner for basic things these days.

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    Works with HiVal ATA driv

    For those looking for a really inexpensive optiion, I bought a HiVal drive with a Phillips 3610 mechanism. Toast says it'll work with it but didn't. When I contacted Adaptec, they said I needed another driver -- for an extra $100 or so. Discribe worked without any drivers other than the standard Apple driver and what it came with. I won't be going back to Adaptec.

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