The Waves Platinum bundle includes 25 processors and is the most complete line of professional audio processors ever offered. Waves Native Platinum Bundle (Macintosh and Windows) Its nice that you can go back and forth between the applications with ease as you assemble your CD.
This allows full CD mastering, with full sub code editing. CD architect 5.2 is now bundled with Forge. This basically lets you use a lot more plugins with Forge.ģ. But still, it makes doing /B comparisons a bit faster, so this is a good thing.Ģ. As Forge is not a multi-track recording application like a sequencer, it does not matter if the audio is a half second late, other than you have to wait that half second after hitting the "play" button. This makes the application a bit more snappy.
With Asio support you can use the drivers on low latency soundcards and audio interfaces that use asio. There are two critical features added to Forge 8 that users have long been wanting. Note that you can add Sound Forge to Sonar's menu and use it directly from Sonar to edit Sonar's audio tracks. It's designed to record and edit audio files. While you can have many files open at once, this software is not designed to overdub and mix. They are not multi-track recorders like Adobe Audition (formerly CoolEdit) or Acid or Vegas are. Most important perhaps is what Sound Forge and Screenblast Sound Forge are NOT. Forge has always been a robust PC program and you'll find all the latest Microsoft OS features implemented splendidly, like right click contest menus, docking toolbars, menu items where you expect them and fast and speedy file and windowing operations.Ī screen shot of Forge with a 3rd party Vintage Warmer Plugin
You can stretch the screen to cover two monitors which is ideal if you want to see everything. Below is a shrunk down version of an 1152 x 864 screen on my second monitor. Nearly every window is a docking window and you can snap together the interface in many ways. The basic layout of Sound Forge is user customizable.
This is a review of the full version of Sound Forge 7. Both will import and save MP3, add audio to video files. If you are into mastering your audio material with 3rd party DX plugins, making samples for digital samplers that support SCSI, want the Acoustic Mirror, WaveHammer and Specrtum Analysis tools, you need the full version. If you are new and on a budget and simply want to edit audio files, make acid loops and beats, rip material from cds, burn songs to cd track at a time add basic effects then screenblast is a fine way to go. There is Sound Forge 8, which is the current full version as of this writing, and Screenblast Sound Forge, which is an inexpensive stripped down version of the real thing. There are two products that bear the name Sound Forge made by Sony.