Sound Forge Studio 6.0

Specifications

General Editing Features

  • Simple editing and navigation
  • Drag-and-Drop operations
  • Real-time nondestructive editing
  • Multitask background rendering
  • Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge
  • Fully customizable toolbars
  • Mix, paste, and crossfade
  • Overview window
  • Unlimited Undo/Redo
  • Over 30 built-in effects & processes
  • System and user-defined function presets
  • Enhanced Preset Manager
  • 10 band EQ
  • Effects previewing
  • Crash recovery
  • Time Compression
  • Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
  • Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
  • Sample rates from 2 kHz to 48 kHz
  • 8-bit, 16-bit file support
  • Video and AVI file support with frame-accurate editing
  • Embed summary information in files
  • Mono and stereo sound files
  • Real-time play and record meters
  • Tabbed, docking windows
  • Save files to popular multimedia and Internet file formats
  • Full support for 4 GB and larger files
  • Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
  • Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution

Processes

  • Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit)
  • DC Offset
  • 10-band EQ
  • Fade In/Out
  • Graphic Fade
  • Insert Silence
  • Invert/Flip
  • Mute
  • Normalize
  • Pan
  • Resample
  • Reverse
  • Smooth/Enhance
  • Swap channels
  • Time Compress
  • Volume

Effects

  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Chorus
  • Delay
  • Distortion
  • Dynamics
  • Envelopes
  • Flange/Wah-Wah
  • Noise Gate
  • Pitch Bend/Shift
  • Reverb
  • Stutter

Tools

  • Track at once CD burning
  • CD Ripping
  • Statistics Tool
  • Simple Synthesis
  • DTMF/MF Synthesis

Tools for ACID®

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

Regions and Playlists

  • Name markers, loops, and regions

Sample Editing

  • Real-time loop tuning window
  • Sustaining Loop, Release Loop

Recording

  • 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

  • QuickTime™, WMV, and MPEG-1&2 import*
  • Adjustable video frame rate and frame size
  • Video frame display above waveform
  • Edit AVI files with multiple audio streams
  • Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video
  • Audio and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy
  • Various video and audio compression options
  • Video preview window

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

Minimum 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 4.0 or later