BarbaBatch 2.2 (with NameIt JoinIt MoveIt and AffixIt)	S/Link 2.0	Waveconvert 1.5.3	Waveconvert PRO	Sound Super Edit 1.0	Protools 4.0, Powermix, Batch export/import and convert
Input Sound file formats:
Audio CD Tracks (in CD-Rom Drive)	X
Sounddesigner I	X	X
SounddesignerII	X	X	X	X	X	X
Wave	X	X	X	X	X	X
AIFF	X	X	X	X	X	X
AIFF (DOREMI Dawn)	X	X
AIFC linear	X	X
AIFC MACE		X
NEXT/SUN.au (a-law)	X	X
NEXT/SUN.au (µ-law)	X	X
NEXT/SUN.snd (linear)	X	X
Voc 8 bit	X	X
System 7 sound (soundresource)	X	X	X	X		X
Amiga 8svx	X	X
Quicktime		X		X
OMF interchange		X
RAW		X		X	X
AVR	X
Microsoft ADPCM	X
voc 16 bit	X
Dialogic Vox ADPCM	X
Dialogic Vox a-law	X
Dialogic Vox µ law	X
Dialogic Vox linear PCM	X
Ensoniq PARIS	X
Output Sound file formats:
Sounddesigner I	X	X
SounddesignerII	X	X		X	X	X
Wave	X	X	X	X	X	X
AIFF	X	X	X	X	X	X
AIFF (DOREMI Dawn)	X	X
AIFC linear	X	X
AIFC MACE		X
NEXT/SUN.au (a-law)	X	X
NEXT/SUN.au (µ-law)	X	X
NEXT/SUN.snd (linear)	X	X
Voc 8 bit	X	X			X
System 7 sound (soundresource)	X	X	X	X		X
RAW		X		X	X
Amiga 8svx	X	X			X
AVR	X
OMF interchange		X
Microsoft ADPCM	X			X
Quicktime	X			X		X
voc 16 bit	X				X
MPEG1 layer I	X
MPEG1 layer II	X
Real Audio	X
AIFC IMA 4:1 (ADPCM)	X
Headerless a-law	X			X
Wave IMA 4:1				X
No-loss (compression)
Dialogic Vox ADPCM	X
Dialogic Vox a-law	X
Dialogic Vox µ law	X
Dialogic Vox linear PCM	X
Ensoniq PARIS	X
Mounting of synclavier disks:		X
DSP
Look ahead peak limiting (maximising)	X		X	X		"Squeezer"
Look ahead gating	X			X
normalising	X		X	X
samplerate conversion (for clarification read accompanying text)	to and from any rate,very high to low quality in 4 steps	to and from any rate, low quality	to and from any rate, medium quality	to and from any rate, medium quality	to and from 11 rates low quality	to and from any rate, 4 quality steps at export, import fixed at low quality
Linear PCM word size conversion (for clarification read accompanying text)	32 bit in & out 24 bit in & out 16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out high quality	16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out low quality	24 bit out 16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out high quality	24 bit out 16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out high quality	16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out low quality	24 bits out 16 bit in & out 8 bit in & out high quality
Support for audio Data other than linear PCM	Real Audio, MPEG1 Layer I, MPEG1 Layer II, µ-law, a-law, MS-ADPCM, DVI-ADPCM (vox) IMA-ADPCM,	MACE, µ-law, a-law	None	No-Loss, (waves) MS-ADPCM, (waves) IMA-ADPCM	None	None
Dithering	X		IDR dither	IDR dither
EQ (not editable)			X	X
Fade in and out (anti DC click)	X				X
Use external waves plug-ins for DSP				X
Channel processing
copy left of stereo to mono	X				X
copy right of stereo to mono	X				X
Mix stereo to mono	X	X	X	X	X
interleaved stereo to split stereo	X
split stereo to interleaved stereo	X
Convert to MPEG Joint Stereo	X
Convert to MPEG Separate Stereo	X
duplicate mono to stereo	X				X
Sounddesigner Regions
Sounddesigner Region extraction	X				X	X
Auto Create Regions from audio					X	X
Compact files according to SDII regions	X					X
Conversion of 'extra' soundfile info
Regions	X				X
Markers	X	X (not correctly)		X
Loops	X			X
Sampler info (base key, upper and lower limits etc)	X
User editable filetypes and creator IDs	X
Speed - (For obvious reasons a calculation intensive conversion is chosen to measure speed on slow Macs) For a graphical representation, click here.
On a PowerPC 6100/60 a 44100 to 48000 Hz sample rate conversion of a mono 6.9 second SDII file	8 seconds (High quality samplerate conversion)	6 seconds (low quality samplerate conversion)	90 seconds (medium quality samplerate conversion)	84 seconds (medium quality samplerate conversion)	32 seconds (low quality samplerate conversion)	59 seconds (decent quality samplerate conversion)
On a 33 Mhz 68030 Mac a 44100 to 48000 Hz sample rate conversion of a mono 6.9 second SDII file	3 minutes (High quality samplerate conversion)	1.9 minutes (low quality samplerate conversion)	34 minutes (medium quality samplerate conversion)	34 minutes (medium quality samplerate conversion)	1 minute (low quality samplerate conversion)	Powermix doesn't run on 68K macs
On a 33 Mhz 68030 Mac with an Audio Media II Card, a 44100 to 48000 Hz sample rate conversion of a mono 6.9 second SDII file	0.2 minutes (High quality samplerate conversion)	1.9 minutes (low quality samplerate conversion)	34 minutes (medium quality samplerate conversion)	34 minutes (medium quality samplerate conversion)	1 minute (low quality samplerate conversion)	Powermix doesn't run on 68K macs
PowerPC native	X	X	X	X		X
support for Digidesign hardware (AMII, PT II)	X					X
Security
Log file creation	X				X
File Auditioning
Batch file play	X	X	X	X
Varispeed playback	X
File naming
File (re)naming algorithms	9 batch renaming algorithms in NameIt, 4 letter extensions in BarbaBatch	one by one, by hand	one by one, by hand	one by one, by hand	5 batch renaming algorithms	None
In-file region naming according to text file	X				X
Overall performance features
Background performance	X		X	X	X	X
Scriptability	X			Via 'Joblist'
Save conversion settings	X			X	X
Drag & Drop	Files & Folders			Only Files	Files & Folders
Maintain file hierarchy from input to output	X	X
General ease of use (interface)	Very Easy	Easy	not easy, unclear	not easy, unclear	not easy	easy