Sound Forge Pro Mac includes a comprehensive suite of mastering, restoration, and repair tools for immediate results.” It features “focused editing, high-fidelity recording, one-stop audio mastering, and professional signal and effects processing. NOTE: If you need to modify audio synced with video, Adobe Audition or Avid ProTools are better choices.Īccording to Sony’s website: “Sound Forge Pro Mac is a waveform-based audio editor that supports multichannel audio recording and editing. This software only supports audio, so it is best suited for podcasters, musicians, or anyone that wants to record, edit, or output better sound. NOTE: Sony sent me serial numbers to use for my review. (Sony Creative Software are the same folks behind Sony Vegas, Acid, and SpectraLayers.) While new to the Mac, it is well-established in Windows. In early October, Sony Creative Software released Sound Forge Pro Mac. For an explanation of how I review products, click here There are many audio editors on the market that can do the job, specially when advanced features are not required.NOTE: I am a firm believer in ethical product reviews. But for more complex use, you can't just use anything, it takes something like Sound Forge, the popular audio editor by Sony, made for sound professionals, audio editors and producers.Īcclaimed for its power, stability, and exceptional workflow. Sound Forge is a set of professional tools for digital audio production. Presented as an editor, it offers us options for recording, editing, processing, sound design, audio restoration and mastering, not to forget the final stage of burning to optical discs if necessary. Edit audio in real time based on events: mono, stereo or multichannel.Record audio through your sound card and in different ways, with VU meters and RMS control.Process audio with over 40 professional studio effects.Recover audio files by restoring sound with "Noise Reduction 2" plug-ins.Work with 24, 32 and 64-bit files, at 192 kHz resolution.Includes iZotope mastering software "Mastering Effects Bundle 2".Includes MBIT+ and 64-bit SRC interpolation provided by iZotope.Supports video formats like AVI, WMV and MPEG1/2, ideal for audio synchronization. Sony has continued to expand the horizons of one of its flagship programs. The latest versions of Sound Forge continue to implement new features, such as interface customization options (allowing you to save multiple templates), new fade curves, or interactive tutorials, perfect for getting to know the program and its tools.ĭownload Sound Forge and process your audio files with the same resources available in professional studios.A long time standard of most Windows-using audio professionals, Sound Forge Pro has finally come to Apple OS X. While there have been functional audio editors on OS X for a long time: Wave Editor (now Triumph), the ill-fated BIAS Peak, Adobe Audition and even Audacity but these don’t seem to have the name recognition and user-numbers that Sound Forge has held among all audio professionals. Many Sound Forge fans (including myself) were hoping this new Mac port would be Sound Forge Pro 10 with OS X style buttons. Instead, Sound Forge Pro MAC has been touted by Sony Creative as “Built on a clean slate for OS X, Sound Forge™ Pro Mac provides a contemporary application environment that’s perfect for recording, editing, processing, and rendering broadcast-quality audio master files.” Sound Forge Pro MAC seems to be an entirely different application than Sound Forge Pro 10, which could explain the different version numbering conventions as well as different price-points. ![]() (Windows version = $374.95 and OS X version = $269.95).Īll that said, this new MAC version does look pretty. It looks like an OS X application and seems to behave like one as well. While playing around with it I have access to all of my Audio Unit and VST 2’s, and there are little differences/improvements I have seen so far over SF 10 such as Fade-ins/Outs having their fade types right in the submenu is super cool (although having to go into a menu at all is tedious). Also the Media Browser which by default is on the left side of the screen is cleaner and nicer than SF 10’s Explorer. The list of features missing from Pro MAC vs Pro 10 is quite extensive: no batch editing, no key command assigning, no crop ability, no surround output, no auto-regioning, no video support, and even a lack of editable toolbars.īe warned: Pro MAC requires OS X Lion or Mountain Lion, which may be a deal-breaker for some Snow Leopard holdouts.
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