My excitement about Peak was first dampened by the bad performance it had on the Mac on which I did my first excercises. Ok, saying that positively: Peak seems to have high resource requirements - which doesn't make it sound better.

As a programmer, I always have some sort of 'view from the side' when working with software. While I do know that writing 'good' software can be difficult, writing 'bad' software should be avoidable.
Don't get me wrong, Peak surely is an excellent software -- for my subjective experience, it lies in the details that make me raise the Spock-eyebrow.

Working in combination of mouse and keyboard is limited by the response time of the application; For example, opening the properties window of a marker requires a double click on it. A perfectly timed one - since the first click is eaten up by some random impact on performance on the machine as it seems; If the second click is too early, it is simply ignored. Too late, and you're just selecting the marker a second time (with again the same delay...)

While this problem may be in relation to a poor performing host, the next one probably wont:

The recent problem I stubled upon was while working with the newest exercise, which is to cut a spoken text from 4 minutes down to about 30sec, by creating new sentences. Since I wanted to use (and get used to) a playlist, I filled it with word segments.
For some reason it wont play back many of the shorter regions (words like 'and') - totally at random. I was told that this might be because of limitations a CD has (minimum track size) - which does make sense as Peak is considered a 'mastering program'; but solely within the software playlist, I don't see why this should fail.

In other news (which appear to become standard in this blog) about (my) MacBook, I want to de-recommend the program "Psst!", which I recommendet last time. All of a sudden, I now get a popup during start 'suggesting' that I should donate some money to the programmer. I'd say, with a program of this dimension, the programmer would get more fame when giving it away for free.
Either way, I thus have a first project to work on (if I find the time ;) -- Xcode was installed last weekend.