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Description
Unleash your creativity with the Sony Sound Forge Pro, the quintessential audio editing and mastering suite designed for uncompromising sound professionals. Whether you’re a seasoned producer or an aspiring audio engineer, this state-of-the-art software delivers a comprehensive toolkit tailored to elevate your music projects. Dive into a seamless workflow with its intuitive interface, allowing for precise audio manipulation that ensures your tracks are polished to perfection.
Sony Sound Forge Pro empowers you with its event-based editing and flawless time stretching capabilities, providing unparalleled control over your audio projects. The integrated disc-at-once CD burning feature guarantees Red Book compliant CDs, making professional-grade production accessible from your home studio. Moreover, the Mastering Effects Bundle 2, powered by iZotope, offers a suite of plug-ins, including Mastering EQ and Multiband Compressor, to add a pristine finish to your sound.
Explore the software's extensive support for high-resolution files, powerful recording options, and a vast library of over 40 professional studio effects. With Dolby Digital AC-3 export and comprehensive spectrum analysis tools, Sound Forge Pro is more than just a DAW; it's your partner in crafting sound that resonates.
Key Features:
- Event-based editing for enhanced flexibility and speed
- Integrated disc-at-once CD burning for professional-grade CDs
- Mastering Effects Bundle 2 powered by iZotope for polished sound
- Supports high-resolution 24-bit and 32-bit/64-bit float 192 kHz files
- Over 40 professional studio effects including EQ, Delay, and more
- Supports VST effects plug-ins and various video formats for synchronized audio
- Dolby Digital AC-3 export capabilities
Videos
Skills Factory
Sound Forge Pro 11 - Tutorial for Beginners [+ General Overview]
Reviews
Owner Insights
We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Sony Sound Forge Pro.
Features and functionality
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Sound Forge is praised for cleaning up waveforms by redrawing rough spots, making it a top choice for precision edits.
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Current Sound Forge supports 32 channels, allowing more complex layering and pitch adjustments compared to older versions.
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Sound Forge lacks modern visual displays for effects like EQ and compression, contrasting sharply with competitors that offer visual waveform manipulation tools.
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Use cases and applications
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Owners use Sound Forge for destructive audio editing, mastering, and editing samples, often in creative sound design and layering short sound effects.
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Software and compatibility
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Sound Forge 10 is favored for its straightforward, simple UI without bloat, contrasting newer versions with added adware.
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Some users report that external VSTs like those from Reaper often crash Sound Forge, although these VSTs perform well in Audacity and Ocenaudio.
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Sound Forge Pro is noted to be Windows-only, limiting its use for Mac users unless they employ additional software like Parallels to run Windows applications.
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Comparisons
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Some users recommend Audacity as a free alternative for similar wave editing tasks, with a similar workflow.
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Users frequently compare Sound Forge to Steinberg's WaveLab for waveform editing tasks, highlighting that Sound Forge isn't a traditional DAW but an audio editor focused on mastering.
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User experience
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Transitioning from Sound Forge to Audacity presents a learning curve with new keyboard shortcuts, but becomes intuitive over time.
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Owners express dissatisfaction with bundled effects like CoreFX and WizardFX, finding them less intuitive and effective compared to Reaper's native effects.
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Critic Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Based on 5 Reviews and 17 Ratings
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Nice and simple.
Sony Sound Forge Pro 10 is a outstanding waveform editor. It's quick, simple and easy to use. The only problem I had with my personal experience is that some of the presets didn't work properly. Had a few bugs here and there. That's why I lean more towards Sound Forge Pro 9, where I didn't have any problems at all.
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I agree. I tried so many different editors, on both Mac and PC, and nothing compares to Sound Forge.
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drop your samples and sounds
very good tool to work precisely on your sounds and samples !! a good companion for Cubase, and Acid Pro...
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Mastering Tracks
I have Been using this to Master my Tracks with this torpedo really brings out my tracks dynamics ...
Artist usage
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Jon Hopkins talks about how he uses Sound Forge along with Logic Pro to create his music.
In this article from The Wire, the following question and answer takes place:
"Burial: I’ve seen people using sequencers and I’ve tried hard to use them but it’s blocks in different colours and I'm only used to just seeing the waves. I don’t need to listen much to the drums because I know they look nice, like a fishbone, rigged up to be kind of skitty, sharp. My tunes are a bit rubbish and messy but it's all I know. One day I want to make a tune people can have a dance to, I've tried.
Wire: What did you think when people were saying that you hadn’t produced it all in Sound Forge, it’s a scam.
Burial: Who?
Wire: People on the internet, saying he can’t possibly have done that whole album in Sound Forge.
Burial: Really? Yeah well I did. I'll leave those people to their internet or whatever. Yeah I wish sometimes that I’d gone to college to learn music production, but other times I’m like ‘no, fuck, I’m happy I didn’t’."
Judging by the 2010 post date of this, Burial was most likely using Sound Forge 10.
"(Favorite Software) As far as software goes, all I really use is Renoise and Sony Sound Forge. I do all my tunes in Renoise but use Sound Forge almost as much to edit sounds, chop things. I’ve used that for years, since before Sony bought Sonic Foundry. So I’ve always been jumping back and forth to Sound Forge no matter what I was sequencing in over the years."
List of Grant Kirkhope's tools includes "Guitar, Keyboard, Cubase 4, Pro Tools HD, GigaStudio, Sound Forge, etc."
"I’ve worked both at home and at Midway and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment over the years with a variety of different setups. Currently I’m running Pro Tools 8 on an 8-core Power Mac and I have a number of excellent musical plug-ins: Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Kontakt, Play Libraries (Ministry of Rock, Stormdrum, Symphonic Choirs) and other Native Instruments plug-ins. I also use Vegas and Sound Forge for sound effects and other mixing and editing."
"My main software tools of choice are all PC based and consist of Sony Vegas, Sony Sound Forge, Cakewalk, Nuendo & GigaStudio. I have superfast PC’s which are the latest designs powered and built by both AMD & Intel. I’ve always preferred JBL speakers and Mackie mixing consoles. My keyboard controller is currently a Yamaha Motif – 8 which I really like. Oh yeah… and they don’t call it the Music BUSINESS for nothing! So two other widely used software programs are Excel & Word!"
"With very few exceptions, the music for Diablo was made by packing up the eight tracks on the ASR-10 with as much as I could get into the 16 megs of memory and then controlling them using the Cakewalk sequencer. Even when doing live material through my $150 AKG microphone, I would generally record it as a sample in the ASR-10 first, and often liberally apply the onboard effects, especially the delay. After making an archival pass through my Sony 59ES DAT machine, the tracks would then go to the third of these tools, also resident on my Windows machine - Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, an editing program which I have spent a great deal of time staring at in my adult life. This piece of software has proved useful for almost every task I have faced in the editing process, and has frequently proven itself as a great tool for the most basic elements of sound effect and musical sample creation."
Album Usage
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Genre Usage
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