SOUND FORGE Pro 17:
Audio editing for professionals

 

SOUND FORGE Pro 17
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The first choice for producers, audio engineers and
sound designers worldwide

SOUND FORGE Pro has set the audio editing standard for artists, producers, and sound and mastering engineers in the audio editing sector for over three decades.

With precise tools, innovative editing functions, and high-end plug-ins, you can create masters for podcasts, broadcast, physical media, or streaming in accordance with international standards.

Recording

Recording

Multichannel audio recording
at the highest level of quality

With SOUND FORGE Pro, record audio on up to 32 channels in resolution up to 64-bit/768 kHz. The 64-bit audio engine allows for the ultimate stability and lowest latency. Create ultra-clear recordings in astonishing sound quality.

Audio Editing

Audio Editing

Maximum efficiency and precision

SOUND FORGE Pro is one of the most powerful audio editors. Cut, edit, and enhance audio files with the highest precision and at the sample level.The numerous professional editing tools allow you to shape every sound individually.

Mastering

Mastering

Professional-sounding results

SOUND FORGE Pro provides advanced tools and a range of intelligent high-end effects based on DSP algorithms. Optimize loudness of your recordings effortlessly and without loss of quality.
 

Top new features
in SOUND FORGE Pro 17

Use External hardware effects like a plug-in

External FX
Use External hardware effects
like a plug-in

Use the best digital and analog hardware effects to enhance your audio production. Enjoy seamless integration of your favorite hardware effects with minimal setup effort.

Enhanced support and stability for VST plug-ins

VST Enhancements
Enhanced support and stability
for VST plug-ins

Take advantage of expanded support for VST plug-ins. This update adds performance, compatibility, and stability to your music production. Use more of your favorite VST extensions without sacrificing performance for an even better and faster workflow.

Make basic operations easy and automable

coreFX Utility
Make basic operations easy
and automable

Optimize your editing process with our clear and modern plug-in that enables essential editing tasks with the possibility to automate parameters. Benefit from the extensive collection of important, high-quality tools for professional editing.

Highlights in SOUND FORGE Pro

  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding
  • Mastering and restoration with iZotope plug-ins:
    Ozone 11 Elements & RX 10 Elements
  • 32-channel audio recording, editing, and processing
  • VST Engine & ARA2 support
  • Record at up to 64-bit/768 kHz
  • Numerous audio effects and plug-ins for sound design, mixing & mastering
  • zplane élastiquePro v3 Timestretch

Highlights in
SOUND FORGE Pro Suite

SOUND FORGE Pro Suite sets new standards in the field of audio with its range of advanced plug-ins, such as the innovative Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10, and Celemony Melodyne 5.3 essential.

  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding

Exclusively includes:

  • dynamicEQ now featuring oversampling
  • wizardFX Modern Reverb
  • Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
  • Celemony Melodyne 5.3 essential
  • essentialFX Suite (11 high-quality effect plug-ins)
  • Analogue Modelling Suite (4 mastering plug-ins)
  • Vintage Effects Suite (3 vintage effects)
  • VariVerb II (versatile reverb plug-in)
  • Vandal (virtual guitar & bass amp)
SOUND FORGE Pro 17
SOUND FORGE Pro 17
SOUND FORGE Pro 17
SOUND FORGE Pro 17 The standard for recording, audio editing & mastering
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SOUND FORGE Pro 17 The standard for recording, audio editing & mastering
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  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding
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  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding
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SOUND FORGE Pro 365
SOUND FORGE Pro 365
SOUND FORGE Pro 365
SOUND FORGE Pro 365 SOUND FORGE Pro 12 month subscription
SOUND FORGE Pro 365 SOUND FORGE Pro 12 month subscription
SOUND FORGE Pro 365 SOUND FORGE Pro 1 month subscription
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Subscription and cancellation conditions: SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be available immediately after payment and activation. The charge for the minimum term is payable as a single sum upon conclusion of the contract. The minimum term begins on the date of purchase. The contractual period of SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be automatically extended by 12 months at a time until you cancel the agreement. You will be informed well in advance if the extension rate or taxes included change. A cancellation is possible up to 1 month before the end of the contract period. To cancel the contract, please send an email stating your customer number to: infoservice@magix.net

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  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding
Available until March 24, 2024
$14.99 / month

Subscription and cancellation conditions: SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be available immediately after payment and activation. The charge for the duration of the minimum term is payable monthly upon conclusion of the contract. The minimum term begins on the date of purchase. The contractual period of SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be automatically extended by 12 months at a time until you cancel the agreement. You will be informed well in advance if the extension rate or taxes included change. A cancellation is possible up to 1 month before the end of the contract period. To cancel the contract, please send an email stating your customer number to: infoservice@magix.net

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  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding
$27.99 / month

Subscription and cancellation conditions: SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be available immediately after payment and activation. The charge for the minimum term is payable as a single sum upon conclusion of the contract. The minimum term begins on the date of purchase. The contractual period of SOUND FORGE Pro 365 will be automatically extended by one month at a time until you cancel the agreement You will be informed well in advance if the extension rate or taxes included change. A cancellation is possible up to 1 day before the end of the contract period. To cancel the contract, please send an email stating your customer number to: infoservice@magix.net

Download (shipping free)
  • NEW! External FX
  • NEW! VST Enhancements
  • NEW! coreFX Utility
  • NEW! Optimized Onboarding

Trust the professionals.
Artists on SOUND FORGE

Adam Gonsalves

"When mastering from stems the editing in SOUND FORGE is seamless, easy, and fast."

Adam Gonsalves
Mastering and Vinyl Cutting Engineer

Credentials
Willie Nelson, Blitzen Trapper, Rogue Wave

Garry King

"For both pre and post final production of full tracks, stems or individual files, SOUND FORGE Pro as a classic software is something that should not to be missing from any home or professional studio setup!"

Garry King
Drummer, Drum-Recording Engineer and Producer

Credentials
Jeff Beck, Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple), Tom Bee (Sound of America Records), Rick Hale | Musik for TV and Film

Brother Paul Brown

"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!"

Brother Paul Brown
Grammy-nominated 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)

Anthony Casuccio

"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."

Anthony Casuccio
Grammy-nominated Mastering Engineer

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

Joey Stuckey

"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."

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.)

William Goldstein

"From the beginning SOUND FORGE was the most versatile & complete audio editing software available."

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

Ted Perlman

"The plugins included in SOUND FORGE Pro can get you that million dollar sound without having to spend a million dollars! I love this program."

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

Jean-Philippe Rykiel

"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

David Filskov

"SOUND FORGE Pro is a reliable tool for easy recording, cleaning up audio, handling and converting files manually and automatically."

David Filskov
Sound Designer and Founder of Epic Sound

Credentials
Coca Cola Cinema Ad, LEGO Hero Factory

Rod Carillo

"I find it very flexible for all different genres of mastering and it has smooth integration with third plugins that make our final masters crisp and clean."

Rod Carillo
Produzent und Remixer

Referenzen
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)

John Walden

"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

What the press has to say

TheSoundArchitect (UK) - 24/05/2018

TheSoundArchitect (UK) - 24/05/2018

"MAGIX have done a fantastic job at revitalising an essential tool for any audio professional. It has everything in an audio editor that I need: efficiency, transparency, ability to customise, speed of workflow, in-depth editing and monitoring tools, and so much more."

SOUND FORGE Pro 12

Editors' Choice
Innovation through reasearch
The standard for industry & broadcast
30-years-experience

FAQs

What is SOUND FORGE?
 

SOUND FORGE is a digital audio editing suite by MAGIX aimed at both professional and semi-professional users. It has been the audio editing standard software for artists, producers and sound mastering engineers for over 20 years. The SOUND FORGE family includes SOUND FORGE Audio Studio, Audio Cleaning Lab, as well as SOUND FORGE Pro and SOUND FORGE Pro Suite.

What is SOUND FORGE
Audio Studio?

SOUND FORGE Audio Studio is a digital audio editing all-rounder. It's the perfect software for recording podcasts or audio books in high quality, cutting and editing audio files with professional restoration and mastering tools, and modifying them with a wide range of effects.

What is SOUND FORGE Pro?
 

SOUND FORGE Pro is audio software for professional users. An extensive range of professional functions makes it the most popular software among producers and sound engineers worldwide.

What is SOUND FORGE Pro Suite?
 

SOUND FORGE Pro Suite is a professional software package for recording, editing, sound design and mastering. The suite sets new standards for audio and contains a wide range of sophisticated plug-ins, such as the brand-new Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 and Melodyne essential.

What is SOUND FORGE
Cleaning Lab?

SOUND FORGE Cleaning Lab is an all-around tool for cleaning, digitizing and restoring audio recordings. It features modern workflows, innovative effect presets and powerful cleaning and mastering plug-ins from iZotope.

Are there free trial versions of
SOUND FORGE available?

Yes, free 30-day trial versions of SOUND FORGE family products are available. Just go to the free-download section and get started.

Is SOUND FORGE Audio Studio
a 32 bit software?

You need a 64-bit version of one of the following operating systems: Windows 11 | Windows 10. Further information on the system requirements can be found under technical specifications.

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