SOUND FORGE Pro 16 | Functions | Professional recording, editing & mastering

The audible difference

SOUND FORGE Pro has numbered among renowned audio editing software for more than two decades. With its extensive range of features and tools it is the editor of choice for many producers and sound engineers worldwide. Record, edit and master at the highest level.

Recording | Editing | Mastering & Cleaning | Visualization | Scripting

Recording
High-resolution audio recordings

SOUND FORGE Pro allows you to record crystal-clear, multichannel sound with sampling rates of up to 64-bit/768 kHz. Apply effects during recording and monitor your recordings on a fully customizable interface.

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.

Professional Recording Workflow

You can modify up to 32 audio channels and monitor everything within a customizable working environment. Simplified file navigation and a huge range of options for delayed recording refine the program's recording workflow further.

Hi-res Audio Recording

Create razor-sharp recordings in resolutions of up to 64-bit and sampling rates of up to 768 kHz.

One Touch Recording (OTR)

Start recording with a single click while keeping the main program interface and your project area open simultaneously. OTR lets you spare heaps of time and enable you to fully concentrate on recording.

Direct Stream Digital (DSD)

SOUND FORGE Pro 16 supports DSD audio files for the import and export of and 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

Enable the MIDI timecode trigger if you want to be able to trigger playback or recording when the timecode of another device is received – this simplifies the input of MIDI notes and controller values.

Timestamp Recording

Configure your recordings so that they automatically start from multiple selected input devices via a timer. The automatic settings will define when the recording ends.

Input Bus Effects

Add plug-in effects to your source signal to create mixes that sound great on headphones. This method integrates your effects chain before recording is started.

Waveform Display

The waveform display makes navigating longer recordings easier and allows you to orient yourself in an audio file.

Audio Editing
Precise audio editing

In addition to editing and processing audio files, one of the core competencies of SOUND FORGE Pro is sound design. Take advantage of precise editing tools to form your sounds, your way.

Editing Tools
Versatile tools for precise edits

Edit Tool

Use the edit tool to select the audio files that you want to change, position or move. You can edit simple envelope points in the same way.

Magnify Tool

Use the magnify tool to zoom in on a region. Dragging the mouse pointer over a range enlarges it. If you let go of the mouse button, the area selected for editing will not be lost.

Pencil Tool

Use the Pencil tool to edit the waveform by drawing on it. For instance, you can zoom in to a problem area and redraw the waveform if noise is present in the audio file.

Event Tool

Use the event tool to edit several audio events in a single data window. This shows you simpler methods for cleaning edges and transitions and makes creating track for Disc-At-Once CDs easier.

Envelope Tool

You can add, remove, or adjust envelope points using the envelope tool. It should be used when you want to add points to effect automation envelopes or remove or customize them.

Timestretching & Pitch Shifting

zplane élastique Timestretch 3.3.1

With the new élastiquePro v3 engine, experience impressive timestretching 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 a degradation in sound quality.

Workflow Features
For the Best Possible User Experience

The user interface in SOUND FORGE Pro 16 can be fully configured. Waveform and envelope color, markers and window height can all be modified to suit your preferences – for a more streamlined workflow. Design and save multiple interface layout configurations, whether in single or dual monitor setup.

NEW! dynamicEQ

Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts exactly where it will enhance your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate, and shape sounds throughout your project with the maximum precision and level control. The multiple filter options for EQ band configuration enable significantly more precise options when editing, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks (as well as all tracks containing virtual instruments).

Exclusively in the Suite

NEW! New resampling engine

Thanks to the newly redesigned internal resampling engine, you can work with any sample rate in your project without prior conversion.  The program's engine is now faster, supports more formats, and provides better output quality. The customizable engine ensures that you always output the highest quality and achieve maximum results from your media in real time without prior conversion.

NEW! Optimized multichannel workflow

Enjoy significant enhancements to support for multichannel audio files. SOUND FORGE allows you to create, load and save new files with any configuration.   This provides feedback the selected setup all the time and lets you benefit from the ability to convert and export different formats containing up to 32 channels.

Instant Action Improvements

The Instant Action window lets you edit and access frequently used functions with just a click. All essential tools and functions are now displayed as easily identifiable icons in an Action window. You now have a clear overview of everything and can access the Workspace Actions, Effects, Mastering, Export & Import Action sections directly – meaning you don't have to search for tools and functions in the menus and saving you a ton of time.

Windows Context Menu Improvements

Convert and normalize your audio files easily and quickly without needing to open SOUND FORGE Pro 16 first, by right-clicking a folder in the Windows context menu. This way, can assign tasks instantly, which accelerates your workflow and lets you achieve the results you need even faster.

Customizable User Interface

The interface of the new SOUND FORGE 16 can be fully customized to suit your lighting environment and comes in four different shade settings: White, Light, Medium or Dark. Set up the user interface the way you want to make working with audio files a fun and enjoyable experience.

Intuitive Icons

With the redesigned icons you are able to get a clearer overview and find functions easier in SOUND FROGE Pro 16. You can now easily identify where you need to click to start a recording, cut audio files or save projects.

Redesigned Docking

With its range of functions for all audio editing and processing tasks, the windows structure can be customized to the exact way you need it. From recording to mastering: Whatever the audio task, the right presets and functions are at hand.

Multichannel Editing

SOUND FORGE Pro 16 can open, edit, convert and save audio files from various sources. All in a multitrack environment and with the ultimate precision.

Expert Multitasking

You can edit a new file while SOUND FORGE Pro 16 edits and renders an additional 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, mix the channels to set up panning.

Mastering and Cleaning
Sophisticated plug-ins. Excellent sound quality.

SOUND FORGE Pro contains a whole range of effects and plug-ins for mastering as well as cleaning audio files. These are based on advanced DSP algorithms that are designed to offer the highest precision for post-production.

Loudness Normalization (EBU R128 & ITU BS.1770-4)

Now you can be sure that your video and audio projects meet broadcast standards for loudness. The Automatic Loudness normalization adjusts loudness and dynamics in real time. This standardizes audio mixing for television and radio, measuring and controlling program loudness.

DSP Effects

Use digital signal processor effects to edit audio files in realtime and perform mastering tasks that normally can't be realized on an analog basis. Add more dynamics and room to your sound and get rid of noise from your audio.

Mastering Effects

coreFX Suite

The coreFX Suite is the ultimate effect bundle with all the essential tools for professional sound design: It includes a rhythm effect for contemporary productions, five plug-ins for precise dynamic control, as well as three modulation effects for creating richness and space. All dynamic plug-ins display the dry and processed waveform in real time.

coreFX 2-Point Compressor

In contrast to a standard compressor, the coreFX 2-Point Compressor contains two inflection points. This allows you to create different characteristics and offers more freedom when compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.

coreFX Limiter

The limiter sets the maximum value of the processed audio signal level, which will then not be exceeded. Differences in volume are eliminated, which levels out loud and quiet sections as a result.

coreFX VolumeFormer

By regularly decreasing and increasing the volume of a track, the VolumeFormer creates a kind of pump effect that's familiar from dance music. This effect contains an AHR envelope and can be fully modified.

coreFX Expander

With the Expander you can suppress noise and design new sounds: the dynamics of the audio signal are increased to create a more natural sound.

coreFX Compressor

Use this effect to compress the dynamic range of an audio signal and eliminate volume differences between soft and loud passages.

coreFX Gate

The gate is used to suppress quiet sections in signal transmission, which removes noise and produces a cleaner, clearer sound.

coreFX Delay

Create distinctive effects easily with the delay effect. Achieve sounds ranging from clean and precise to warm delays with a character of their own.

coreFX Chorus

Chorus is the right effect for full, warm sound – whether for more range and fullness for vocals or to create special effects for instruments.

coreFX Flanger

Create more dynamic audio characteristics with the flanger effect. Classic guitar sounds work just as well as original effects when laid down over your tracks.

Acoustic Mirror™

Recreate the sound of legendary studios, old churches, analog reverb devices and cinematic worlds with a single convolution reverb plug-in – Acoustic Mirror.

Wave Hammer 2.0

Essential for any audio toolkit: Wave Hammer 2.0 is a combination of a classic compressor and a volume maximizer – in other words, a perfect tool for mastering.

Wave Hammer 2.0 enables you to make tracks noticeably louder and offers greater control than peak normalization.

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coreFX 2-Point Compress.