The automatic audio restoration software MAGIX SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 4 offers a combination of one-click solutions that allow you to digitize old media or clean, repair, remaster, and export your music tracks, all with minimal effort. It is well suited for audiophiles looking to enhance the sound of their recordings or for journalists who need to optimize their audio for podcasts. Audio Cleaning Lab 4 offers enhancements including range-based effects, a plug-in browser, ARA2 support, plus a load of plug-ins including RX 10 Elements and Ozone 10 Elements from iZotope, and the wizardFX Suite. You also get 8 tracks for audio montage.
iZotope RX 10 Elements is the optimal tool for quickly and easily removing unwanted noise, S sounds, clicks, and other elements from your audio files. RX 10 Elements includes four noise-removal modules: De-click, De-clip, De-hum, and Voice De-noise. iZotope Ozone 10 Elements leverages the power of artificial intelligence to quickly and easily master music, records, and audio files. With iZotope Ozone 10 Elements, you can create different masters for streaming, radio, or CD.
SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 4 comes with 360 presets to help you automatically analyze your music and speech recordings and make suggestions for enhancing them using a suite of effects. Distortion, crackling vinyl, hissing, humming, and any other noise can be reduced or removed quickly and easily. There are also presets dedicated to improving speech intelligibility, reducing sibilants, and adjusting the volume of your voice. For in-depth cleaning, you can identify and select unwanted noises using the spectral display, and remove them with your mouse.
What's New in Version 4?
- Shape your own unique sound with modernEQ.
- Easily manage projects using the Track controls.
- Search for and find presets fast with the plug-in browser.
Powerful Tools for Audio Cleaning and Restoration
- iZotope RX 10 Elements: Eliminate noise, sibilance, clicks and other unwanted elements with RX 10 Elements from the audio experts at iZotope. In addition to the four modules De-click, De-clip, De-hum, and Voice De-noise, the new version contains a standalone audio editor and a wide range of real-time plug-ins. These help you easily resolve common recording issues such as clipping, humming, clicks, and other unwanted background noise. iZotope RX 10 Elements is an indispensable tool for those who want to create the perfect audio production.
- wizardFX Suite: Find the right effect for tasks from fast mixing to the final touches. wizardFX Suite ensures versatile dynamic, coloration, and modulation effects based on a revolutionary operational concept. Simply choose a preset and adjust the effect intensity level with a single controller. Simple operation, impressive sound; it's the ultimate combination for advanced creativity.
- Plug-In Browser: Finding and organizing plug-ins now couldn't be easier. With the new plug-in browser, all effect VSTs are right there at your fingertips. A clear and streamlined dashboard makes it easier to find your favorite plug-ins in no time at all.
- ARA2: The new additional ARA2 interface extension now allows for even more speed and creative possibilities when using ARA2-compatible plug-ins, which can also be easily integrated using the new plug-in browser.
- Range-Based Effects Editing: You can now simply click to apply effects quickly and easily from the context menu to a specific range within an audio file. Range-based editing makes working with effects much simpler, and it speeds up your workflow, too.
Digitize
- Record Audio Media: Record individual tracks, entire albums, or voiceovers quickly and easily.
- Import CDs: Transfer your albums, singles, and EPs to your computer, and compile a selection of your favorite songs.
- Export: Export audio files in any standard format, from MP3 and OGG, to WAV and AIFF.
Cleaning and Restoration
- Spectral Display: The various frequencies of the audio track can be visualized. This allows for precise removal specific noises.
- Preview Function: When you select a range in the spectral display, you can preview to hear what the range sounds like after cleaning and compare it to the original.
- Auto Cleaning: This feature makes suggestions for improving audio after analyzing your material. Any suggested improvements can be adjusted afterwards.
- Presets: Easily remove unwanted sounds like noise or traffic noise with the help of over 360 presets.
- Advanced Effects Editing: The program offers direct access to all effect parameters for sound optimization in audio editing and mastering.
- Remove Crackling from LP Tracks: Crackling can be quickly and easily removed from vinyl with presets for different strength levels.
- Clipping Reduction: Prevent clipping during recording, or remove it in postproduction with the help of the limiter and DeClipper, to account for varying levels of volume.
- Smartphone Audio: Access diverse presets for optimizing audio recordings made with your smartphone, for enhanced results.
- Get Rid of Wind Noise: Eliminate wind noise in no time at all using professional plug-ins and presets.
- Remove Camera Noise: Get rid of noises from older camcorder models by using simple presets or your own customized adjustments.
- Optimize Speech Recordings: Optimize the sound of speech with a few clicks, and remove popping and hissing sibilant sounds in voice recordings.
Audio Editing
- Range-Based Effects Editing: Range-based effects editing allows you to apply effects quickly and easily to a specific range within an audio file, which streamlines your entire workflow.
- Plug-In Browser: Finding the right plug-in is quick and simple with the plug-in browser; all effect VSTs are right there at your fingertips. You can simply click to open advanced VST settings in the plug-in browser.
- Eight Tracks for Audio Montage: Create transitions and add audio commentary or sound effects to recordings. The eight tracks provide plenty of space for comprehensive audio editing.
- See What You Hear: Work on the visual level with a spectroscope, peak meter, spectrogram, bit meter, correlation meter, and direction meter.
- Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting: Access one of the best algorithms in the world from zplane for adjusting pitch and speed. Enjoy precise, virtually artifact-free results.
- Range Editing: Switch to Range mode to select individual sections within a track, and copy or edit them with a single click.
- Object Effects: Edit individual sections of a recording with different effects and settings to specifically remove noises, for instance.
- Edit Audio Files: Explore the numerous audio editing features such as volume adjustments, individual editing techniques, and working with automatic wizards.
- Divide Recordings: The program automatically detects where one song ends and the next one begins, so you can select and skip the tracks on the finished CD.
- Sublime Transitions: Fade lines within the audio track enable you to quickly and easily adjust the volume. This lets you slowly fade in intros.
- Batch Processing: Optimize or export multiple songs or entire albums in one step. This lets you edit your entire music archive in one go.
- CD Covers and Track Info: Cover and track titles are automatically populated for original CDs and displayed when you play music on smartphones, MP3 players, or music management programs.
- Audio Converter: Vinyl or CD, MP3 or OGG, WAV or AIFF; you can record in a range of formats, and burn CDs and convert audio files as well.
- WaveColor: A color-enhanced waveform display that uses different shades of color and saturation levels to make it easy to identify pitch levels and sound characteristics.
Optimize Video Sound
- Import for Video Sound: Import video files and start editing the audio track right away.
- Perfect Video Sound: Enhance speech recordings and reduce background noise, wind noise, or sibilance—a wide range of presets are included for removing all types of noise.
- Preview Monitor: The preview monitor enables you to work on two monitors simultaneously, including in 4K. It's an ideal tool for synchronizing picture and sound.
- Video Sound Optimizer: Click on your track and the Video Sound Optimizer will suggest the right effect settings for enhancing music or speech in your footage.
- Media Exchange: Transfer your audio or video projects with just a few clicks from SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab to any other video editing software.
- Video Converter: Convert your video files with optimized sound into all standard formats. Movie formats such as MPEG-4 can easily be converted to WMV.
Digital Mastering
- wizardFX Suite Plug-Ins: wizardFX Suite contains a range of diverse effect plug-ins with comprehensive and fast preset selection. Discover high-quality effects such as the Limiter, Tape Machine, Gate, or Modern Reverb. Control effect levels with a practical slide controller and give your audio files a new sound character. The wizardFX Suite has a wide range of uses and works well with any kind of sound.
- iZotope Ozone 10 Elements: Create different masters in no time with the convenient mastering wizards, like for streaming or radio.
- Music Digitally Remastered: Simply select the genre for your song and the Auto Mastering function selects the optimal audio settings for optimizing sound. Compare and preview results with other music styles such as jazz, '70s funk and soul, or classic '80s pop.
- Mastering Package: Optimize and fine-tune the sound image of your audio material with just a few clicks. The parametric 6-band EQ module provides optimal sound for your productions. The StereoFX module expands the width of the stereo field and the MultiMax multiband compressor/limiter produces an authentic, warm sound image.
More Effect Plug-Ins
- eFX Reverb: eFX Reverb contains everything you need for modulating reverb effects professionally, whether for short reflections or longer reverb.
- eFX Gate: This plug-in only acts when the set audio signal occurs, for example, noise caused by two sources.
- eFX Vocal Strip: Optimize speech and vocal recordings using the compressor, de-esser, and high-pass filter for a maximum level of quality.
- eFX Tube Stage: This plug-in simulates the sound of an analog tube amplifier and is ideal for creative distortion in speech recordings in audio books or videos.
- eFX Chorus Flanger: Impart modulation effects for special sections.
- eFX DeEsser: This enables you to create a warmer, more characteristic sound by reducing sibilance and popping in speech and vocal recordings.
- VST3 Interface: Additional plug-ins from MAGIX or third-party providers can be easily integrated using the VST3 interface.
- ARA2: ARA2 support allows for the use of ARA2-compatible plug-ins as well as real-time editing of your audio files.