MAGIX Sound Forge Pro 15 audio-editing software delivers pro-quality multichannel recording, broadcast-level mastering, precision editing, and pristine audio restoration on your Windows computer. Version 15 brings loudness normalization, ACX Export for audiobook standards, Remote Recording, Instant Action, Windows context menu improvements, and a high-performance VST engine that makes your plug-ins more efficient for your computer to run.
A great complement to music-production DAWs, the software provides audio engineers, musicians, and producers with an ultrafast workflow and a massive array of editing tools including iZotope Ozone 9 Elements, RX 8 Elements, and élastique Pro v3 time-stretching, perfectly suited for customizing and shaping the sound of music projects, game soundtracks, podcasts, videos—with just a few steps.
Sound Forge Pro 64-bit architecture harnesses the full power of your computer. It allows you to record and edit up to 32 channels of crystal-clear audio simultaneously at 64-bit / 768 kHz and with low latency. A set of three noise-shaping POW-r dithering algorithms helps reduce the unwanted quantization noise created when the bit-depth of your audio is reduced, giving you the best possible sound when your audio is played at low levels in various formats.
Sophisticated audio visualization tools enable you to analyze your sound with music, vocals, and noise, graphically and dynamically displayed on the basis of their audio data. The user interface can be fully configured to provide a smooth user experience, with waveform and envelope color, markers, and window height that can all be modified to suit your preferences. You can even design and save multiple interface layout configurations, whether in single or dual-monitor setups.
Sound Forge Pro 15 provides industry-leading DSP algorithms to help you clean and master your audio material. Use innovative effects to optimize the loudness of your recordings without sacrificing dynamics. Create Red Book masters, DDPs, and master files optimized for streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, or Tidal.
Note:
This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students, faculty/staff, and accredited academic institutions only. Proof of current educational status is required.
What's New in Version 15
- ACX export: Export standards-compliant audio files for streaming services like Audible or iTunes. The ACX export wizard will automatically make your renders industry compatible and let you create industry-standard audiobooks.
- Loudness normalization: Export radio-compliant masters with automatic loudness normalization according to EBU R128 or ITU BS.1770-4 standards to ensure that your video and audio projects meet broadcast standards for loudness. Master for television and radio, and measure and control program loudness in real time.
- Remote recording: When activated, the main window minimizes for extra screen space, allowing you to get all the essential recording options in one convenient remote control.
- Enhanced export workflow: Customize your workflow. Choose different effects, presets, export formats, and templates to create and save your own actions. Assign them to Instant Action and the Windows context menu for quick access to your favorite export tasks.
- Instant Action window: This new window gives you immediate access to frequently used functions with just one click. Get even more functionality with many new options like Fade In/Out, Normalize, Trim Silence, and other important tools.
- Windows context menu improvements: Perform basic tasks such as the new Trim Start and End silence, format converting, and normalizing an audio file by right-clicking directly in the Windows context menu. No need to open Sound Forge to use these time-saving features.
- Redeveloped VST2/3 engine: The new engine offers enhanced stability and speed when scanning and using plug-ins.
High-Resolution Recording with Effects
Professional Recording Workflow
- Adjust up to 32 audio channels of incoming audio and monitor everything within a single workspace.
One-Touch Recording (OTR)
- Push Record, stay on the main screen, and access everything within the same workspace.
Remote Recording
- Simply drag the slim remote window to a convenient position next to your audiobook text, and begin recording right away. Remote Recording hides the main window, giving you all the essential recording options in one location. This frees up the screen to display your text or sheet music for undisturbed recordings.
Input Bus Effects
- Add plug-in effects to your source signal to create mixes that sound great on headphones while musicians perform.
Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
- The software supports DSD audio files for import, export, recording, and mixing in PCM format, DSD format export for mastering Super Audio CDs (SACD), as well as reliable archiving.
Threshold Recording
- Set a threshold via the options menu and recording will start automatically from the selected input device. This is an easy way to record yourself without the need for remote controls while you're in the booth.
MIDI Timecode
- Trigger playback or recording by receiving timecode from another device.
Timestamp Recording
- Set up from multiple selected input devices using a timer to begin automatically recording. Use the manual record button to begin recording, and your settings will automatically determine when the recording should end.
Waveform Display
- The waveform display makes it easier to navigate through lengthy recordings. Use it to quickly shift your edit position. It also serves as an excellent locating and auditioning tool.
Powerful Tools to Transform and Edit Your Sound
Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting
- zplane élastique Timestretch 3.3.1 delivers time stretching and pitch shifting without artifacts. Based on modern psychoacoustic models and signal processing theory, zplane élastique delivers stable timing, cross-channel phase coherence, and sample-accurate stretching without degradation in sound quality.
Magnify, Pencil, Event, and Envelope Tools
- Magnify tool: Zoom in to a region using your mouse.
- Pencil tool: Edit the waveform by drawing it.
- Event tool: Edit multiple audio events in a single data window.
- Envelope tool: Add, remove, or adjust points on automation envelopes for effects.
Sophisticated Plug-Ins for Mastering and Cleaning your Audio
coreFX Suite Mastering Effects
- This comprehensive suite of effects includes: coreFX 2-Point Compressor, coreFX Limiter, coreFX Volume Former, coreFX Expander, coreFX Compressor, coreFX Gate, coreFX Delay, coreFX Flanger, coreFX Mirror reverb, coreFX Hammer 2.0 compressor/maximizer.
iZotope Ozone 9 Elements Mastering Suite
- iZotope Ozone 9 Elements contains a wide range of presets and macro controls for producing sophisticated mastering results with ease. The Mastering Wizard analyzes your mix, creates an audio profile, and suggests default values, signal chains, and processor settings to help you master your tracks for a variety of audio-delivery platforms—from radio play to streaming
iZotope RX 8 Elements for Precise Audio Cleaning
- iZotope RX 8 Elements contains a standalone audio editor and real-time plug-ins to resolve common recording issues such as clipping, humming, clicks, and other unwanted background noise.
DeHisser, DeClicker/DeCrackler, DeClipper
- DeHisser: Easily remove unwanted hiss created when digitizing archival tape-based recordings or from a guitar or bass amp. Easily clean up background hiss with presets for hiss behind vocals, cassette tape hiss, analog tape hiss, and more.
- DeClicker/DeCrackler: Detect and remove clicks and pops from old vinyl and other phonograph recordings. Remove continuous and low-level noise in your recordings.
- DeClipper: Restore and recover analog or digital material with clipping artifacts.
Enhanced Export Capabilities
Customize Export Functions
- Design your own actions by choosing different effects and presets, exporting renderers and templates, and applying them to a batch of files—great for automating repetitive tasks and implementing custom functions.
ACX Export Wizard
- Create industry-standard audio files for streaming services like Audible or iTunes in one click. The wizard automatically makes adjustments to conform MP3s to a constant bit rate, average loudness, peak values, and maximum noise floor as per ACX standard.
DDP Export
- Export the Disc Description Protocol Master and get ready to press your discs. The DDP master is resistant to generation loss (thanks to duplication) and can be easily archived. The digital data is provided with a checksum that is sent to the pressing plant, ensuring audio CD production that is absolutely free of errors.
Disc-at-Once CD Burning
- Disc-at-Once CD burning is used to create a master disc for mass replication by a CD manufacturer. This process writes several audio tracks to disc. You can also add track markings to record live sets in a single pass, and create audio CDs in Red Book standard without gaps.
Fast Workflow with Customizable User Interface
Customizable User Interface with Window Docking
- The user interface lets you design your own editing environments to maximize your productivity. Conveniently dock and group windows within the interface, and save your configurations. The interface can also be fully customized to suit your lighting environment. It offers four different shade settings: White, Light, Medium, or Dark.
Intuitive Icons
- The redesigned icons make it easier and faster to start a recording, cut audio files, or save projects.
Multichannel Editing
- Open, edit, convert, and save audio files from various sources—all in a multitrack environment.
Expert Multitasking
- Edit a new file while Sound Forge edits and renders another file in the background—saving you a ton of time.
ACID Loop Creation
- Create loops for ACID and edit WAV file properties. This information is embedded in the file and can be modified in ACID at any time.
Channel Converter
- Adjust the number of channels in an audio file, swap channels in a stereo file or in a multichannel file, and mix the channels to set up panning.
Powerful Visualization Tools for In-Depth Audio Analysis
WaveColor
- With WaveColor, pitches and sound characteristics are assigned different colors and saturation levels to make it easy to see what's happening in the waveform. Easily identify important parts of your project, and take advantage of a vivid and convenient way to stay oriented while you work.
Spectroscope
- The Spectroscope offers precise and detailed real-time frequency analysis. Monitor and analyze the wavelength, frequency, and amplitude of your audio. It is very useful for your audio editing workflow as well as for the mastering process.
Peak Meter V2
- Measure the peak levels of your audio signal precisely and reliably. Peak Meter V2 provides a visual display of the signal level in real time.
Voice Activity Detection through Artificial Intelligence
- sensAI SINGING VAD from audEERING is a modern tool that detects lead vocals as well as background vocals in song recordings. It marks the sections with vocal lines based on the latest Artificial Intelligence technology. This gives you a quick overview of where the vocal sections are in complex mixing projects.
Phase Scope and Mono Compatibility Measurement
- The phase scope helps you find phase cancellation issues between channels in an audio file. You can use the correlation meter to identify and fix mono compatibility between channels.
CALM-Targeted Metering
- Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) standard metering enables ultraprecise loudness measuring to regulate overall loudness during ad breaks. The meter displays the audio signal's dynamic range in visual form.
Multichannel-Capable Spectrum Analysis
- The multichannel spectral analyzer displays multiple graphs with fundamental frequencies and overtones in your recordings. Monitor audio and effect changes, and create multiple snapshots and overlays to compare and adjust frequencies.
Clipping Identification and Selection
- This tool identifies and selects clipped peaks automatically by scanning audio files. Remove them with the DeClipper tool.
Sound Forge Pro 15 Suite at a Glance
- 32-channel file recording, editing, and processing
- 64-bit architecture, high-fidelity up to 768 kHz
- POW-r dithering algorithms
- VST2, VST3 engine
- Mastering and restoration with iZotope plug-ins: Ozone 9 Elements and RX 8 Elements
- zplane élastique Pro v3 timestretch and pitch-shift plug-in
- coreFX suite with compressors, limiter, expander, gate, delay, chorus, flanger, and more
- Wave Hammer 2.0 compressor
- Acoustic Mirror reverb
- ACID loop creation tools
- Spectrum analysis tool
- Peak Meter V2
- Phase scope and mono compatibility measurement
- CALM-targeted metering
- Clipping identification and selection
- Red-Book-compatible CD mastering/burning
- Can burn track-at-once / disc-at-once CDs
- Video sound optimization without rerendering
- DeClicker/DeCrackler, DeClipper, and DeHisser high-end effects from Sequoia mastering software
- Batch processing to apply the same effects and processes to multiple files, and save a time during editing and conversion
- Mastering Wizard to easily and quickly create professional masters from your audio files
- Cleaning Wizard for removing noise and other artifacts from your audio
- Support for FLAC and AAC formats
- DSD import/export