It is high time to take another look at this PC staple. In the intervening years, Sony have bought Sonic Foundry's entire line of audio and video software, including Vegas and Acid, updated them all, and have just released version 8 of Sound Forge. Sound Forge was one of the first professional audio editors developed for the PC, and was last reviewed by Sound On Sound when version 6 appeared back in 2002. For many sound jobs, a stereo editor is that hammer, making the given task easier and faster. Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be. It's not that you can't accomplish many of the same tasks using your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), but it is a lot more elegant to use a hammer to drive in a nail than the flat side of a wrench.

Sony have opened their Sound Forge editing software up to new horizons with support for VST plug-ins and the ASIO driver protocol, and improved its usability with batch processing and a new scrubbing tool.Įveryone needs a stereo audio editor. VST and DX effects can be called up from the Plug-in Chainer tool highlighted by the cursor. Common procedures are available from the drop-down menus under Process and Effects. A single sound open in a window, ready to be edited.

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