Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, and later as

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Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite by

Magix Software GmbH Magix (or MAGIX Software) is a German software company specializing in video editing, audio editing, DAW and photo slideshow software. The company is based in Berlin, with locations in Madison, Wisconsin, Dresden and Lübbecke, as well as Hui ...

, which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets. There are two versions of Sound Forge: Sound Forge Pro 12 released in April 2018 and Sound Forge Audio Studio 13 (formerly known as ''Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge LE'') released in January 2019. Both are well known digital audio editors and offer

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, audio editing,

audio mastering Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via meth ...

and processing. In 2003,

Sonic Foundry Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ:SOFO) produces software for distance learning and corporate communications. Sonic Foundry, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, and is known for originally developing Vegas Pro and Sound Forge. ...

, the former parent company of Sound Forge, faced losses and tough competition from much larger companies; and, as a result, agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product family to

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for $18 million. The software initially had

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support, but after version 3.0 all support for 16-bit Windows was dropped. Additionally,

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support was dropped after Sound Forge 5.0. On May 20, 2016, Sony announced that it would be selling the bulk of its creative software suite, including Sound Forge Pro, to Magix GmbH & Co. Magix announced via Facebook that their first new version of Sound Forge Audio Studio (Sound Forge Audio Studio 12) was released August 2017.

Features

* Multi-channel or multitrack Recording *

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using artificial intelligencehttps://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/sound-forge/sound-forge-pro/new-features/ Sound Forge Pro July 2018 update *

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export * High resolution audio support: 24-Bit, 32-Bit, 64-bithttps://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/magix-sound-forge-12 SoundonSound product review (

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) 192

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* Video support including AVI, WMV, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (both

PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...

and

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) for use in

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by frame synchronization of audio and video * Real-time sample level wave editor * Ultra- high fidelity * Support for a wide variety of file formats: DSF (DSD), AA3/OMA (ATRAC), GIG (GigaSampler instrument), IVC (Intervoice), MP4 (including Apple Lossless), MPEG‑2 transport stream and PCA (Sony Perfect Clarity Audio). For working with audio‑for‑video, Pro 12 includes versatile video file support AVI, WMV, MPEG‑1 and MPEG‑2 (in PAL or NTSC) file formatshttps://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/magix-sound-forge-12 SoundonSound File Format Frenzy *

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and VST3 plugin support. Version 12 includes a vinyl restoration plug-in and Mastering Effects Bundle, powered by

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* Floating Plug-in Chain window for non-destructive effects processing * CD Architect 5.2 software that allows

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(DAO) CD burning * Batch conversion functionality * Spectrum analysis tools *

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and filtered

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generators * DTMF/MF tone synthesis * External monitor support for DV and

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(IEEE 1394) devices

Supported formats

* Macromedia Flash (

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) format open only *

RealMedia RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks with the filename extension . RealMedia is generally used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio, while also being used for streaming content over the Internet ...

9 (

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and

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) - export only *

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9 Series ( WMA and

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) (i) * Microsoft Video for Windows ( AVI) (i) *

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(AIFF, AIF, SND) *

MPEG-1 MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to about 1.5 Mbit/s (26:1 and 6:1 compression ratios respectively) without excessive quality loss, mak ...

and

MPEG-2 MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods, w ...

* MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) *

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(OGG) * Macintosh

* NeXT/Sun ( AU) * Sound Designer (DIG) * Intervoice (IVC) * Sony Perfect Clarity Audio (PCA) * Sony Media Wave 64 (W64) (i) * Sound Forge Project Files (FRG) * Dialogic (VOX) * Microsoft Wave (

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) *

ATRAC Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony. MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC in 1992. ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to ...

Audio (AA3, OMA) (i) * CD Audio (CDA) * Dolby Digital AC-3 studio - save only (i) * Raw Audio (RAW) (i) * Free Lossless Audio Codec (

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) ''(i): Supported multichannel format''

References

External links

Sound Forge Product Family

Sound Forge Pro

Sound Forge Audio Studio

Sonic Foundry website

Sony press release
{{Digital audio workstations Digital audio workstation software Soundtrack creation software Magix software

Features

Supported formats

See also

References

External links