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The award-winning Sound Forge® digital audio editor includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge software allows you to edit, record, encode, and master nearly any form of digital audio including WAV, AIFF, MP3, and more. Whether you're taking your first steps towards editing audio on your PC, or you're a seasoned audio engineer, there's a Sound Forge product that's right for you.
PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE Sound Forge 7.0 software is an award-winning digital audio editor that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. This industry-standard application is the professional's choice for audio editing, audio recording, effects processing, streaming content creation, and more.
New Features
Sound Forge 7.0 software continues to build on its decade-long legacy by adding features that make it more powerful than ever to enhance your workflow and productivity. These include: DirectX® plug-in effects automation, automated time-based recording and audio threshold record triggering, VU/PPM meters for RMS playback and record monitoring, enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools, white, pink, and brown noise generators, clipped peak detection and marking, Vinyl Restoration plug-in, Media Explorer, Sound Forge project file creation, support for 24fps DV video files and much more. After more than 10 years, Sound Forge 7.0 software remains the standard for professional audio editing and mastering on the PC platform.
Recording
- Record instruments, vocals, from your own CDs just about anything you can hook up to your computer's sound card.
- Record audio in 16-bit or 24-bit formats.
- Perform automatic recording of audio, radio shows, repetitive events, any time you are not able to record manually.
- Start recording whenever a specific audio threshold you set is reached using threshold record triggering.
- Eliminate dropouts and missed audio in the start of a recording using prerecord buffering.
- Monitor volume levels during recording using new VU/PPM meters.
Editing - Edit, record, process, and encode audio on your PC.
- Cut, paste, move, mix, delete, mute, reverse, fade, and cross fade audio.
- Edit files nondestructively with extreme speed and accuracy - down to the sample level.
- Use the Media Explorer Window to quickly find, preview, and open your audio files.
- Analyze and view the fundamental frequencies and overtones that make up your recordings with enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools.
- Use the Spectral Graph to monitor input or playback in real-time.
- Easily identify sections of clipped areas in your audio using clipped peak detection and marking.
- Eliminate clicks and pops from recordings using the included Vinyl Restoration plug-in.
- Save your editing sessions to new Sound Forge project (.frg) file format with your entire edit history intact.
- Drag a file from the Media Explorer onto your workspace, or an open file, and perform easy pasting, crossfades, and mixing.
- Drop markers during playback or while editing. Create custom marker names and use them for creating regions and loops.
- Use new Pan/Volume envelopes to visually add precise changes in your audio file over time.
- View, select, and edit your waveforms down to the sample level and snap to sample selections.
- Import and save 24 and 32-bit files - even record high bit audio if your hardware supports this resolution.
- Open and work directly on compressed file formats without creating proxy files, saving hard disk space and speeding up the editing process.
- Save your workspace and open it at a later session.
- Work on one file while Sound Forge software processes another with multitask background rendering.
- Customize your toolbars to create the interface you want for quick access to commonly used functions.
- Use the Preset Manager back up, transfer, and organize your favorite presets.
- Dock floating windows including Regions List, Playlist, Keyboard, Play Meters, and Time Display individually or on top of each other.
- Use an unlimited number of undos/redos to restore a file to any previously edited state.
- Customize your toolbars to create the interface you want for quick access to commonly used functions.
- Create studio-quality audio for broadcast.
- Synchronize audio and video, frame by frame, to produce quality results for streaming media productions and multimedia presentations.
- Create and edit ACID® loops with the loop-editing. Permanently assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo to ACIDize new loops.
- Trigger audio playback using MIDI commands from any MIDI software or hardware device.
Effects and Processing - Choose from over 40 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets, including 18 DirectX® Audio Plug-Ins and over 10 new automatable effects.
- Create dramatic fades, delays, and other effects by utilizing new automated FX parameters and envelope control.
- Use the Audio Plug-In Chainer to chain multiple plug-ins together and hear the results immediately.
- Use pink, white, and brown noise generators to perform audio testing, room acoustic analysis and measurements.
- Create simple synthesizer sweeps and FM synthesizer envelope effects.
- Apply a full range of audio effects, including: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Envelopes, Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb, and Vibrato.
- Use the DirectX Plug-In Manager to customize folders and rename audio plug-in's.
- Apply acoustic responses of real environments such as concert halls, caves, and stairways to your audio using the Acoustic Mirror plug-in.
- Use Wave Hammer® mastering tools to limit the dynamic range of your audio, add punch to recordings, and boost signal levels without clipping.
- Audition audio effects before you apply them, make "before and after" comparisons and apply what sounds best.
- Use Time Compress/Expand to easily turn 33 seconds of narration into a 30-second spot without altering the pitch.