Features:

• General Editing Features.
• Powerful audio editing and navigation.
• 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit/64-bit 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.