SONY SOUND FORGE PRO 11 UPGRADE
Upgrade to SpectraLayers Pro 2 before August 28 and save $50*.Interoperability with Sound Forge Pro 11.Upgrade from Sound Forge Audio Studio before August 28 and save $100*.Upgrade from Sound Forge Pro before August 28 and save $50*.Seamless interoperability with SpectraLayers Pro 2.Broadcast wave file format enhancements.Upgrade or purchase today to experience the deepest and most advanced audio editing platforms available. The latest versions of Sound Forge™ Pro and SpectraLayers™ Pro offer an amazing range of sophisticated sound editing and sound shaping features. It also does a poor job of handling large plugin collections – the unwieldy FX Favorites menu must surely be at the top of Sony’s list for a revamp in version 12.NEW Sound Forge Pro 11 and NEW SpectraLayers Pro 2! - view online It lacks support for virtual and MIDI instruments, and offers minimal support for multi-channel mixing. That’s not to say Sound Forge is anything like a replacement for the likes of Cubase or Sony’s own Acid Pro. Indeed, when you factor in the multi-track capabilities introduced in version 9 (and here expanded to 32 tracks), it’s no exaggeration to say that, as an overall package, Sound Forge is now starting to look viable for jobs that might previously have been deputed to a full-fat digital audio workstation (DAW) package.
Nectar Elements costs £80 on its own, so if you’re in the market for a do-it-all vocal plugin, its inclusion here certainly sweetens the deal.Īll of these new and updated features make Sound Forge an increasingly powerful tool for recording and mixing musical performances, voiceovers and so forth. On the subject of VSTs, Zplane’s élastique time-stretching tool, originally bundled with version 10, is happily still here – and, even better, it’s now joined by iZotope’s tremendously versatile Nectar Elements vocal processor, which combines preamp, compressor, reverb, de-esser, gate, EQ and even basic pitch correction functions in one efficient module. You can also now optionally route your input monitoring through the plugin chain – useful, perhaps, to help a performer tailor their performance to your chosen production style. Other welcome additions include a miniature overview of the entire waveform at the top of the window (a big help for navigating longer files) and an updated plugin chain interface that makes it easier than ever to manage a non-destructive sequence of VST effects. It’s a world apart from the old Paste Mix approach. That means they can be dragged around, reordered and individually processed, making it a breeze to knock a raw recording session into shape.īest of all, non-destructive fading can be applied by simply dragging in from the top corner of an event, and where two events overlap, an automatic non-destructive crossfade is automatically applied. Not to be confused with regions, events behave just like audio clips in Sony’s ACID software. Switching between takes isn’t exactly neatly handled – to access a previous take you have to step back through your undo history – but it works on a basic level.Īnother significant improvement is the new ability to split a file up into “events”. It’s also possible to record multiple takes, by simply hitting record with a loop active. It’s a much smoother experience.įor slightly more complex recording tasks, the new floating, dockable Record Options window lets you set up pre-roll (for easy punch-in recording), and start recording when the input signal crosses a certain threshold – or when a particular MIDI timecode message is received from an external source. Now the button immediately starts recording into the main wave view, with no clunky switching back and forth between dialogues.
In previous versions of Sound Forge, clicking the Record icon on the toolbar suspended the main program and switched you to a dedicated recording interface. One of the biggest changes is the new “modeless” recording workflow. The answer is, a selection of specific refinements that don’t revolutionise the package, but which make certain tasks much easier. Recent versions have been so powerful that you might reasonably wonder what more could possibly be added to justify this latest upgrade. When it comes to waveform-based audio editing, Sound Forge is one of the best known names in the business – and deservedly so.