Sound Forge 6.0 - Professional Digital Audio Editor

Features and Specifications

General Editing Features

  • Simple and powerful audio editing and navigation
  • Nondestructive audio editing
  • Intuitive windows interface
  • Sample rates from 2 kHz to 192 kHz
  • Full support for 4 GB and larger files
  • 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32 bit audio file support
  • Enhanced time zoom (24:1 ratio) for increased editing accuracy
  • Customizable zoom ratios
  • Drag-and-drop operations
  • Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge
  • MIDI controls
  • Customizable toolbars
  • New audio playback options
  • Mix, paste, and crossfade
  • Overview window
  • Undo/Redo histories
  • DirectX® Plug-in Manager
  • New Modeless audio plug-in Chainer
  • Audio event locator
  • Keyboard shortcut commands
  • Over 35 built-in effects & processes
  • System- and user-defined function presets
  • Multiple-level undo and redo
  • Preset workspaces
  • Enhanced Preset manager
  • Effects previewing
  • Crash recovery
  • Snap to zero Cross
  • Pencil Mode for drawing wave data
  • Zoom in, zoom maximum or minimum
  • Vertical zoom
  • Spectrum analysis
  • Voice over mixing with fade-in tuning for overlap.
  • Preview cuts prior to removing data
  • Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
  • Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
  • Video and AVI file support with frame-accurate audio editing
  • DirectX® Plug-In Support
  • Embed summary information in files
  • Mono and stereo sound files
  • Real-time play and record meters
  • Save files in the latest multimedia and Internet file formats
  • Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars

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

  • Acoustic Mirror
  • 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

Tools

  • Track at once CD burning
  • CD Ripping
  • Spectrum Analysis
  • 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)
  • Simple Synthesis
  • FM Synthesis
  • DTMF/MF Tone Synthesis

Tools for ACID®

  • Create ACIDized loops
  • Loop-editing toolbar
  • Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo

Regions and Playlists

  • 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

Recording

  • Auto calibration for DC Offset
  • Generate SMPTE/MIDI Time Code
  • Glitch/Gap Detection
  • Punch In option
  • Real-time record meters
  • Remote record function

Timing Basis

  • Absolute Frames
  • Measures and Beats
  • Samples, Time, Seconds
  • SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop
  • SMPTE EBU/Film Sync
  • Time and Frames

Video Support

  • FREE Vegas® Video 3.0 LE
  • New video saving and render options (fast video resizing, deinterlace, source video resampling, and video stretching)
  • Enhanced video preferences
  • New 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 format import
  • 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

Supported File Formats

  • AIF/SND Macintosh AIFF
  • AU/SND NeXT/Sun (Java) (PCM, µ-Law)
  • AVI Microsoft Video for Windows
  • DIG/SD Sound Designer 1
  • IVC Intervoice (ADPCM, µ-Law, A-Law)
  • MOV Apple QuickTime Movie
  • MP3 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio)
  • MPG* MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
  • OGG Ogg Vorbis
  • PCA Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio™
  • RAW Raw Files (8- and 16-bit data: signed, unsigned, and Motorola and Intel byte ordering)
  • RM RealNetworks RealAudio 8.0
  • RM RealNetworks RealVideo 8.0
  • SND Sounder/SoundTool
  • VOX Dialogic VOX (ADPCM)
  • W64 Sonic Foundry Wave 64
  • WAV Microsoft Wave
  • WMA Microsoft Windows Media Format
  • WMV Microsoft Windows Media Video

System Requirements

  • 200 MHz processor
  • Windows-compatible sound card
  • CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
  • Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
  • 24-bit color display recommended
  • 32 MB RAM
  • 25 MB hard-disk space for program installation
  • Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, Me, 2000, or XP
  • Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later Internet Explorer 5.0 or later

Please Note: Some features may require product registration.