

Most of these are employed in the software’s vinyl recording and restoration workflow. A new Visualization window also presents several ways to analyse and track audio output including Peak meters, Phase Oscilloscope, Correlation meter, Direction meter, Spectroscope, Spectrogram, Bit meter, Oscilloscope, and Tuner.įurther repair tools include DeClicker/DeCrackler, DeClipper, DeEsser, DeHisser and DeNoiser. Spectral editing tools included in the latest version, offering frequency-based noise removal than allows you visually identify offending noises and remove the frequencies that make them up. The elastic audio editor also allows you to tune vocals with precise control. New non-destructive editing modes, Slice and Soft Cut, let you respectively tweak your edit even after you’ve made your cut and create automatic, user-adjustable crossfades for smooth transitions. The recording workflow has also been updated and redesigned to offer easy access to all the settings and controls you need. Sound Forge Audio Studio 12 is built on a 64-bit platform to supply more editing power, more processing power, and a more powerful workflow. Its many new features make it suitable for digitisation, audio repair work, restoration of vinyl and tapes, creating podcasts, mastering audio, burning CDs, and rendering to all popular audio formats for streaming or playback on portable media players. The Windows-only version 12 supplies tools to record, edit, enhance, and deliver high-resolution audio, claim developers. It lets you edit several formats and associated codecs together without having to bother with the technicalities.Magix, having taken over the former Sony Creative Software portfolio, have now released the latest update to Sound Forge Audio Studio. Version 16 also sports a redesigned resampling engine with improved resampling quality at sample rates up to 384kHz. Also new is modernReverb, a quick reverb effect mostly organized around presets.

Likewise, the restoration software lets you dig into the frequency spectrum to help attenuate clicks, pops, and other undesirable degradations.

In version 16, the new modernEQ tool enables precise frequency adjustments of the kind you’d expect from professional software. Furthermore, you can export straight to audiobook formats in addition to all standard audio files. If you’re doing podcasts or audiobooks, these may be all you’ll ever need. Some of those are powered by iZotope Ozone Elements 9. The software covers the basics of high-fidelity recording (up to 32-bit, 384khz) and wave editing (including 5.1 surround files) and reaches all the way to mastering and restoration features. Sound Forge Audio Studio 16 is an audio editor that won’t intimidate beginners but it’s going to carry them fairly far in their recording pursuits before more advanced features call for a DAW.
