Sound Forge® software is the professional's choice for audio editing, recording, effects processing, and streaming content creation. This powerful award-winning application lets you cut, paste, mix, crossfade, and delete audio with unparalleled speed and precision. Sound Forge 8 builds on its decade-long legacy by adding new features that enhance your editing workflow and increase your productivity.

Extended information

Save Paths in Rendered Media NEW - Media rendered with Sound Forge 8 software include the project path, so you can easily return to the source Sound Forge project if you want to resume editing.

Updated Regions List and Playlist Windows NEW - The Regions List and Playlist windows in Sound Forge 8 have new features for faster in-place editing and sorting.

Windows XP theme support NEW - New icon and UI color, tint adjustments, and Windows® XP theme support in Sound Forge 8 software provides complete customization of the editing workspace.

24-Bit, 32-Bit/64-Bit Float/192 kHz Support - Sound Forge software supports full resolution 24-bit/32-bit 192 kHz files for the ultimate in audio fidelity. Capture the subtle overtones and nuances of instruments, vocals, and effect changes that 24-bit audio provides. With Sound Forge software you can import, save, and even record to this resolution if your hardware supports it.

Media Explorer with Automatic File Previewing - Quickly and easily find, preview, and open media files using the Media Explorer window. Drag files and regions from the Explorer into the workspace or onto another open file for easy pasting, mixing, or crossfading. Explore audio files on a CD-ROM and extract automatically by dragging from the Explorer into the Sound Forge workspace.

Technical specifications

Processes:
Auto Trim/Crop
Mute
Channel Converter
Normalize peak or RMS Level
Stereo Pan/Expand (supports mid-side mixing)
Graphic, Paragraphic, and Parametric EQ
DC Offset
Resample
Reverse
Graphic Fade with noise-shaping and dithering
Smooth/Enhance
Fade In/Out
Time Compress/Expand
Insert Silence
Volume
Invert/Flip
Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit)

Effects:
New! VST plug-in effect support
DirectX plug-in effects automation
DirectX Plug-in Manager
Real-time effects previewing
Modeless audio plug-in Chainer
Acoustic Mirror™ environment simulator
Amplitude Modulation
Chorus
Distortion
Delay/Echo (Simple and Multi-Tap)
Graphic Dynamics
Multi-Band Dynamics
Envelope
Flange/Wah-Wah/Phaser
Gapper/Snipper
Noise Gate
Pitch Bend/Shift
Reverb
Vibrato
Wave Hammer™ Compressor/Volume Maximizer

Automatable Effects:
Amplitude Modulation
Chorus
Distortion
Flange/Wah-wah
Graphic Dynamics
Multi-Band Dynamics
Reverb
Simple Delay
Smooth/Enhance
Sound Forge® Pan
Sound Forge Volume
Vibrato

Tools:
New! Includes CD Architect 5.2 with CD Text support
New! Direct file export to CD Architect software
New! Application scripting
New! Script editor window
New! Batch converter functionality
Track at once CD burning
Drag-and-drop CD extraction
Spectrum Analysis™ tools
Clipped peak detection and marking
Vinyl Restoration™ plug-in
FM Synthesis with envelope
White, pink, brown and filtered noise generators
Simple synthesis sweep
Auto Region (using beats and measures, or peak detection)
Crossfade Loop
Extract Regions
Find Tool
Enhanced Preset Manager
Sampler Tool
Statistics Tool (Max, RMS, DC offset, Zero Crossings)
DTMF/MF Tone Synthesis

Editing/Workflow:
New! Audio scrubbing tool
New! JKL keyboard commands for scrub
New! Customizable keyboard mapping
New! Windows XP theme support
New! Save paths in rendered media
Real-time nondestructive editing
Simple drag-and-drop operations
Multitask background rendering
Media Explorer window
Undo/redo history
Docking windows

Recording/Playback:
New! ASIO™ driver support
Automated time-based recording
Audio threshold record triggering
Prerecord buffer
Auto calibration for DC Offset
Generate SMPTE/MIDI Time Code
Glitch/Gap Detection
Punch In option
Pre-roll to Cursor
Real-time record/playback meters (VU/PPM and standard)
Remote record function
Regions and Playlists


New! Updated Regions List and Playlist windows


New! Real-time editing of fields


New! List sorting


Nondestructive playlist


Name markers, loops, regions


Trigger with sequencers


Trigger with MIDI event-generating devices


Trigger with time code-generating devices

Sample Editing


Pop-up MIDI keyboard to test samples


Sustaining Loop


Release Loop


Real-time loop tuning window


Generate/Receive MIDI Time Code


SCSI/SMDI or MIDI/SDS sample transfer


Sustaining Loop, Release Loop

Timing Basis


Absolute Frames


Measures and Beats


Samples, Time, Seconds


SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop


SMPTE EBU/Film Sync


Time and Frames

Encoding/Video Support


New! Flash (.swf) format import


New! Additional HD video options


Video saving and render options (fast video resizing, deinterlace, source video resampling, and video stretching)


Windows Media® 9 Series import and export


QuickTime® 6 import and export, RealMedia® 9 export


Support for 24fps DV video files


Option to compensate for non-square pixels in Video preview window


Display exact video frame animation above waveform


.MOV and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2* format import


Windows Media Video 9 format support


External monitor support using DV and IEEE 1394 devices


Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video


Sound and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy


Various video and audio compression options

Tools for ACID Software


Publish to ACIDplanet.com


Create loops for ACID software


Loop-editing toolbar


Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo