New in SOUND FORGE Pro 17
Your productivity has top priority in the new SOUND FORGE Pro 17 – MAGIX has developed a new dynamic workflow to help you get the most out of your productions. Experience the new dynamicEQ with oversampling, increased compatibility with VST plug-ins, and the latest version of Celemony Melodyne essential. Record, edit & master more efficiently than ever before with SOUND FORGE Pro 17.
External FX
Use External hardware effects like a plug-in
Use the best in digital and analog hardware effects to enhance your audio production experience. Enjoy seamless integration and extended controllability of your well known hardware effects paired with minimum setup effort.
VST Enhancements
Enhanced support and stability for VST plug-ins
Benefit from enhanced support for VST plug-ins. This update will increase performance, compatibility, and stability for your music production. Use more of your favorite VST extensions without any loss in performance for an even better and faster workflow.
coreFX Utility
Make basic operations easy and automable
Streamline your editing process with our sleek and modern plug-in that enables essential editing tasks with the ability to automate parameters. Benefit from the massive collection of essential high-quality tools for professional editing.
Optimized Onboarding
Start your work even quicker with our streamlined onboarding process
Get started quick and easy with a comprehensive multi-language documentation, interactive tutorials and a simplified setup process. Understanding and using the most important features has never been simpler.
dynamicEQ now featuring oversampling
Easily shape your own, completely unique sound
with dynamicEQ
Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency processing 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 options for EQ band configuration enable more extensive editing options, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks. The new oversampling feature significantly reduces aliasing effects in signals and allows you to mix with virtually no noise.
Exclusively in the Suite
Celemony Melodyne essential version 5.3
Discover the legendary tool for precise
audio correction
Melodyne provides you with unparalleled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples - note by note.
This is made possible by sophisticated analysis that deeply examines your recordings and samples to identify and understand the musical relationships within them: The individual notes and their properties, the scales and chords used, timing, tempo, and sound. And then, all of it can be edited intuitively with Melodyne.
Improved compatibility with VST plug-ins
Design sound to realize your creative vision
The VST and ARA plug-in engine has been completely reworked and made state of the art. In addition to increased compatibility, the time required for scanning plug-ins has been significantly reduced. Simply connect your audio plug-ins via VST to the existing studio setup and make the most of your music.
Reworked Loudness visualization
Achieve improved workflows using
Loudness visualization
The new Loudness visualization displays the loudness of your audio files in a continuous graph in relation to the timeline and as numerical values. Enjoy support for EBU R 128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4 formats thanks to true-peak analysis in dbTP that can be configured using simple presets, all of which is displayed with intuitive color coding to simplify your workflow.
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
The unmixing potential offered by Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 has now been radically expanded. More instruments can now be recorded, including guitar tracks and drum hits.
Split multiple voices into separate layers, unmix multichannel audio into stems, select time ranges, and apply a variety of new unmixing processes that are custom-made for your goals.
Highlights
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
- NEW! Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 (exclusively in the Suite)
- dynamicEQ now featuring oversampling (exclusively in the Suite)
- Melodyne essential version 5.3 (exclusively in the Suite)
- Mastering and restoration with iZotope plug-ins:
Ozone 10 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
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
All features included in SOUND FORGE Pro 17, plus:
- dynamicEQ
now featuring oversampling - Melodyne essential
version 5.3 - wizardFX Modern Reverb
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
- 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 amps)
All features included in SOUND FORGE Pro 17, plus:
- dynamicEQ
now featuring oversampling - Melodyne essential
version 5.3 - wizardFX Modern Reverb
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
- 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 amps)
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
- NEW! External FX
- NEW! VST Enhancements
- NEW! coreFX Utility
- NEW! Optimized Onboarding
All features included in SOUND FORGE Pro 17, plus:
- dynamicEQ
now featuring oversampling - Melodyne essential
version 5.3 - wizardFX Modern Reverb
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
- 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 amps)
All features included in SOUND FORGE Pro 17, plus:
- dynamicEQ
now featuring oversampling - Melodyne essential
version 5.3 - wizardFX Modern Reverb
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10
- 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 amps)
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?
What is SOUND FORGE Pro?
What is SOUND FORGE Pro Suite?
What is SOUND FORGE
Cleaning Lab?
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.