Sony Creative Software - Sound Forge
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Details
| Software: | Sound Forge |
| Developer: | Sony Creative Software |
| Primary Type: | Audio Editor |
| Price (MSRP): | $399.95 |
| Can Host (Effects): |
| Version | Download | Avail? | |
| 9.0e | Download | ![]() |
| Copy Protection: | Unknown |
| Supported Sample Formats include: | ACIDized WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, SND, WAV, WMA |
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Features:
- General Editing Features.
- Powerful audio editing and navigation.
- 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32 bit/64bit float audio file support.
- Sample rates from 2 kHz to 192 kHz.
- Real-time nondestructive audio editing.
- Intuitive windows interface.
- Drag-and-drop operations.
- Media Explorer with automatic file previewing.
- Sound Forge project files.
- VU/PPM meters for RMS playback and record monitoring.
- Waveform volume and pan envelopes.
- Multiple fade curve types.
- Undo/Redo histories.
- Undo past save.
- Full support for 4 GB and larger files.
- Enhanced time zoom (24:1 ratio).
- Customizable zoom ratios.
- Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge.
- MIDI controls.
- Customizable toolbars.
- Multiple audio playback options.
- Mix, paste, and crossfade.
- Overview window.
- Audio event locator.
- Keyboard shortcut commands.
- System and user-defined function presets.
- Multiple-level undo and redo.
- Preset workspaces.
- Enhanced Preset manager.
- Crash recovery.
- Snap to zero Cross.
- Pencil Mode for drawing wave data.
- Zoom in, zoom maximum or minimum.
- Vertical zoom.
- Voice over mixing with fade-in tuning for overlap.
- Preview cuts prior to removing data.
- Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time.
- Embed URL flips within audio and video stream.
- Video and AVI file support with frame-accurate audio editing.
- Embed summary information in files.
- Mono and stereo sound file support.
- Save files in the latest multimedia and Internet file formats.
- Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars.
Processes:
- Auto Trim/Crop.
- Mute.
- Channel Converter.
- Normalize peak or RMS Level.
- Stereo Pan/Expand (supports mid-side mixing).
- Graphic, Paragraphic, and Parametric EQ.
- DC Offset.
- Resample.
- Reverse.
- Graphic Fade with noise-shaping and dithering.
- Smooth/Enhance.
- Fade In/Out.
- Time Compress/Expand.
- Insert Silence.
- Volume.
- Invert/Flip.
- Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit).
Effects:
- DirectX plug-in effects automation.
- Real-time effects previewing.
- DirectX Plug-in Manager.
- Modeless audio plug-in Chainer.
- Acoustic Mirror environment simulator.
- Amplitude Modulation.
- Chorus.
- Distortion.
- Delay/Echo (Simple and Multi-Tap).
- Graphic Dynamics.
- Multi-Band Dynamics.
- Envelope.
- Flange/Wah-Wah/Phaser.
- Gapper/Snipper.
- Noise Gate.
- Pitch Bend/Shift.
- Reverb.
- Vibrato.
- Wave Hammer Compressor/Volume Maximizer.
Automatable:
- Amplitude Modulation.
- Chorus.
- Distortion.
- Flange/Wah-wah.
- Graphic Dynamics.
- Multi-Band Dynamics.
- Reverb.
- Simple Delay.
- Smooth/Enhance.
- Sound Forge Pan.
- Sound Forge Volume.
- Vibrato.
Tools:
- Track at once CD burning.
- Drag-and-drop CD extraction.
- Enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools.
- Clipped peak detection and marking.
- Vinyl Restoration plug-in.
- FM Synthesis with envelope.
- White, pink, brown and filtered noise generators.
- Simple synthesis sweep.
- Auto Region (using beats and measures, or peak detection).
- Crossfade Loop.
- Extract Regions.
- Find Tool.
- Enhanced Preset Manager.
- Sampler Tool.
- Statistics Tool (Max, RMS, DC offset, Zero Crossings).
- DTMF/MF Tone Synthesis.
Recording:
- Automated time-based recording.
- Audio threshold record triggering.
- Prerecord buffer.
- Auto calibration for DC Offset.
- Generate SMPTE/MIDI Time Code.
- Glitch/Gap Detection.
- Punch In option.
- Real-time record meters (VU/PPM and standard).
- Remote record function.
Regions and Playlists:
- Nondestructive playlist.
- Name markers, loops, regions.
- Trigger with sequencers.
- Trigger with MIDI event-generating devices.
- Trigger with time code-generating devices.
Sample Editing:
- Pop-up MIDI keyboard to test samples.
- Sustaining Loop.
- Release Loop.
- Real-time loop tuning window.
- Generate/Receive MIDI Time Code.
- SCSI/SMDI or MIDI/SDS sample transfer.
- Sustaining Loop, Release Loop.
Timing Basis:
- Absolute Frames.
- Measures and Beats.
- Samples, Time, Seconds.
- SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop.
- SMPTE EBU/Film Sync.
- Time and Frames.
Tools for ACID:
- Create ACIDized loops.
- Loop-editing toolbar.
- Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo.
Encoding/Video Support:
- Video saving and render options (fast video resizing, deinterlace, source video resampling, and video stretching).
- Windows Media 9 Series import and export.
- QuickTime 6 import and export, RealMedia 9 export.
- Support for 24fps DV video files.
- Enhanced video preferences.
- Improved compressed file format handling.
- Option to compensate for non-square pixels in Video preview window.
- Display exact video frame animation above waveform.
- .MOV and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2* format import.
- Windows Media Video 9 format support.
- External monitor support using DV and IEEE 1394 devices.
- Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video.
- Sound and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy.
- Various video and audio compression options.
* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.
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