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Sound Forge

Sound Forge 8
Developed by	Sony Creative Software
Latest release	9.0.0.441 or 9.0e (Build 441) / 2008-2-7; 692 days ago
Operating system	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 in cash.^[1] The software initially had Windows 3.x support, but after version 3.0 all 16-bit support was dropped.

[edit] 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.
• 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

[edit] Supported formats

• HD video 720p and 1080i
• 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

[edit] See also

• Sony Acid Pro
• Audacity - Open Source alternative audio editor
• Ardour
• FL Studio
• Steinberg Cubase
• Pro Tools
• REAPER
• Comparison of multitrack recording software

[edit] 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