SOUND FORGE Pro 17:
What artists, producers and sound engineers say

"For the past 17 years I've used and still continue to use SOUND FORGE Pro as my no. 1 go to for all my post mix editing including a 2014 Grammy-nominated blues album I produced, engineered and mixed for blues legend Bobby Rush! The new features of SOUND FORGE Pro are so brilliantly crafted – I am so thrilled with the new 64bit and VST3 Support. They now allow me to seamlessly move my workload from my in-house studio to my touring studio! The new Audio Restauration features are also all right out of the box more powerful in the newest version. I am blown away how far SOUND FORGE Pro has advanced in the quality of time stretching! Absolutely stunning!"

Brother Paul Brown
Grammy-winning Producer, Engineer and Keyboardist

Credentials
The Waterboys, Al Green, Gloria Gaynor (Testimony; Grammy-winning) Bobby Rush (Down in Louisana; Grammy-nominated), Mike Farris, Ann Peebles, Jimi Jamison (Survivor)

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"After 25 years in the music industry, I've seen a lot of changes. One thing that hasn't changed is my ability to rely on SOUND FORGE as my main mastering program. It has everything I need to ensure great sounding audio. With various audio formats being used, the POW-r dithering insures that I get the best quality possible. It's absolutely incredible."

Anthony Casuccio
Grammy-nominated Mastering Engineer

Credentials
Cypress Hill, NAS, Sarah Schuster Ericsson (Night Breeze; Grammy-nominated), Kenneth Bolton (A Pianist Journey; Grammy-nominated)

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"I have been using SOUND FORGE since version 6 many many years ago. It is the best and most powerful editing and mastering software out there and very accessible for the blind. MAGIX has made the software even better after they acquired the product from SONY! In SOUND FORGE Pro, you are provided with more powerful tools, better layout, better pricing and amazing tech support! If you want to edit like a pro, this is the software solution for you!"

Joey Stuckey
Composer, Producer, Singer/Songwriter, Recording Engineer, Guitarist and Professor of Music Technology at Mercer University

Credentials
Alan Parsons, Hughie Thomasson (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Mike Mills (R.E.M.)

"I started beta testing audio software for a company called Sonic Foundry, later bought by SONY and now owned by MAGIX. From the beginning SOUND FORGE was the most versatile & complete audio editing software available. SOUND FORGE Pro continues this great tradition, and has become indispensable for any serious audio project."

William Goldstein
Grammy nominated Film and TV Composer, Instant Composer and former Recording Artist at Motown

Credentials
Fame (MGM), The Miracle Worker (The Walt Disney Company), Happy Endings (CBS) | Music for: National Geographic, ABC and NBC

"I’ve used SOUND FORGE since the mid 1990’s. Mastered and edited many great records, movie soundtracks, etc. It's an amazing user-friendly software that can travel with you on your career journey no matter how high it takes you. Using Ozone 8, Wave Hammer, and the graphic EQ in the new SOUND FORGE Pro, I was able to create a great sounding master. You don't have to own all these expensive 3rd party plugins to get an expensive sound. The plug-ins included in SOUND FORGE Pro can get you that million dollar sound without having to spend a million dollars! I love this program. It "feels" beautiful!"

Ted Perlman
Grammy-winning Producer, Songwriter, Musician and Arranger

Credentials
Burt Bacharach (At This Time; Grammy-winner), Dr. Dre, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross | NBC, CBS, FOX | Jingles for McDonald's, Coca Cola and Burger King

"Having such an easy to use application has many advantages. If you only have a stereo source to record, it is quicker and easier than setting up a session in a DAW. Launch it, it's ready for you. And it's also great for editing and mastering a project exported from a DAW. I consider SOUND FORGE and Samplitude to be the ultimate couple for my music. I do the hard work in Samplitude, and finalise with SOUND FORGE Pro, which itself has greatly improved from its previous versions, allowing to work with multichannel audio, ARA2, and improved VST plug-in integration."

Jean-Philippe Rykiel
Virtuoso Keyboardist, Composer, Sound Designer and Arranger

Credentials
Leonard Cohen, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Amadou & Mariam

"SOUND FORGE Pro is a reliable tool for easy recording, cleaning up audio, handling and converting files manually and automatically. The new interface is great and feels more focused and informative. The Peak Meter V2 is exactly what you need and expect from pro audio tools and élastique timestretch is simply incredible."

David Filskov
Sound Designer and Founder of Epic Sound

Credentials
Coca Cola Cinema Ad, LEGO Hero Factory

"SOUND FORGE Pro has been my trusted weapon of choice for the last 10 years for editing vocals and mastering. It is very helpful for editing vocals: chopping, time stretching, corrections and sampling. It’s a time saver for edits and chops when a production deadline is soon approaching. As for mastering, I use it for all of our originals and remixes. I find it very flexible for all different genres of mastering and it has smooth integration with third plug-ins that make our final masters crisp and clean."

Rod Carillo
Producer and Remixer

Credentials
Donna Summer (Remix – I'm A Fire), Kate Deluna (Remix – Last Night in Miami), Paulina Rubio (Remix – Heat Of The Night), Cole Plante (Remix – Teardrops)

"For detailed audio editing work, Sound Forge allows me to get the job done with a minimum of fuss. Top-notch stuff."

John Walden
Musician, Composer and Music Technology Journalist

Credentials
Journalist for Sound on Sound magazine | Library Music Producer for Focus Music, Mode Production Music, Hollywood Trax