Sound Forge

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Sound Forge

Sound Forge 8
Developer(s) Sony Creative Software
Stable release 11.0 (Build 272) 07-22-2013
Operating system Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
Type Digital audio editor
License Proprietary
Website Sony Sound Forge: Product page

Sony Sound Forge (formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge) is a digital audio editing suite by Sony Creative Software which is aimed at the professional and semi-professional markets.

A limited version sold as Sound Forge Audio Studio provides an inexpensive entry-level digital audio editor; it was formerly known as Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge LE.

By 2003, Sonic Foundry, the 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 Sony Pictures Digital for $18 million.[1]

The software initially had Windows 3.x support, but after version 3.0 all 16-bit support was dropped. Additionally, Windows 95 support was dropped after Sound Forge 5.0.

Features

  • Real-time sample level wave editor
  • Stereo and Multichannel Recording
  • High resolution audio support: 24-Bit, 32-Bit, 64-bit (IEEE float) 192 kHz
  • Video support including AVI, WMV, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (both PAL and NTSC) for use in frame by frame synchronisation of audio and video
  • Support for a wide variety of file formats
  • DirectX and VST plugin support. Version 9 includes a vinyl restoration plug-in and Mastering Effects Bundle, powered by IZotope.
  • Floating Plug-in Chain window for non-destructive effects processing
  • CD Architect 5.2 software which allows Disk-At-Once (DAO) CD burning.
  • Batch conversion functionality
  • Spectrum analysis tools
  • White, pink, brown and filtered noise generators
  • DTMF/MF tone synthesis
  • External monitor support for DV and FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices

Supported formats

  • Macromedia Flash (SWF) format open only
  • RealMedia 9 (RealAudio and RealVideo) - export only
  • Windows Media 9 Series (WMA and WMV) (i)
  • Microsoft Video for Windows (AVI) (i)
  • AIFF (AIFF, AIF, SND)
  • MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
  • MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
  • Ogg Vorbis (OGG)
  • Macintosh AIFF
  • 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 (WAV)
  • ATRAC Audio (AA3, OMA) (i)
  • CD Audio (CDA)
  • Dolby Digital AC-3 studio - save only (i)
  • Raw Audio (RAW) (i)
  • Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

(i): Supported multichannel format

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pcworld.com/article/110570/sony_buys_sonic_foundry_products.html Sony Buys Sonic Foundry Products - PC World. Accessed 2008-12-08

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