Sound Forge
Sound Forge is a digital audio editing suite by Magix, 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 released in January 2019. Both are well known digital [audio editor]s and offer recording, audio editing, audio mastering and processing.
In 2003, Sonic Foundry, the former parent company of Sound Forge, faced losses and tough competition from much larger companies, and agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product family to Sony Pictures Digital for $18 million. The software initially had Windows 3.x support, but after version 3.0 all support for 16-bit Windows was dropped. Additionally, Windows 95 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 was released August 2017.
Features
- Multi-channel or multitrack Recording
- Voice activity detection using artificial intelligence
- Disc Description Protocol export
- High resolution audio support: 24-Bit, 32-Bit, 64-bit 192 kHz
- Support for a wide variety of file formats: DSF, AA3/OMA, GIG, IVC, MP4, MPEG‑2 transport stream and PCA. For working with audio‑for‑video, Pro 12 includes versatile video file support AVI, WMV, MPEG‑1 and MPEG‑2 file formats
- DirectX and VST3 plugin support. Version 12 includes a vinyl restoration plug-in and Mastering Effects Bundle, powered by IZotope