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Sound Forge 5.0

Sound Forge is Sonic Foundry's award-winning two-track digital audio editor. Sound Forge includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. This one-of-a-kind application is perfect for audio editing, audio recording, effects processing and media encoding. Combine Sound Forge with any Windows-compatible sound card to create, record, and edit audio files. The clean and familiar Windows interface makes editing a breeze. It also has built-in support for video and CD burning and can save to a number of audio and video file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3.

Editing Features:

• Cut, paste, move, delete, mute, reverse, fade, and cross fade audio events.
• Edit files with extreme accuracy—down to sample level.
• Restore a file to any previously-edited stage with Undo/Redo history.
• Drop markers during playback or while editing. Create unique marker names and use them for creating regions and loops.
• Drag and drop regions into a play list and rearrange them for playback—all nondestructively.
• Save development time with a powerful Batch Converter that allows you to apply the same process across multiple files automatically or convert many files into a different format, such as MP3, WMA and RM (available as a separate download).
• Edit multiple tracks on one timeline with a FREE Light Edition of Vegas Audio, our digital multitrack editor - a $100 value. This exciting tool provides eight tracks of audio and simple drag and drop operations, allowing you to visually move, crossfade, superimpose and time-stretch audio events in real-time.

Effects and Processing

• Choose from over 35 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets. Sound Forge also includes 18 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins from Sonic Foundry's XFX™1, XFX™2 and XFX™3 series – a $450 value.
• Apply a full range of audio effects, including: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Envelopes, Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb, and Vibrato.
• Control your sound with a Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic EQ.
• Simulate acoustical environments, such as concert halls, caves, stairways and hundreds of other acoustic environments with Sonic Founry's most unique DirectX Audio Plug-In, Acoustic Mirror™ – a $250 value.
• Apply compression and volume maximization with Wave Hammer™ Mastering Tools, a new DirectX Audio Plug-In from Sonic Foundry.
• Audition audio effects before you apply them, make "before and after" comparisons and apply what sounds best.
• Use Time Compress/Expand to turn 33 seconds of narration into a 30-second spot without altering the pitch.

CD Features:

• Rip audio from CDs, transfer music to your hard drive and save files in MP3, WAV, and WMA formats.
• Create your own audio CDs. Sound Forge includes track-at-once CD burning, allowing you to take your audio projects with you on the road.

Other Features:

• Quickly encode your audio files for the Internet in RealAudio, Windows Media and MP3 formats. You can even encode video, insert metadata command markers, launch web sites, display captions, and embed URL flips into your audio and video streams.
• Expand your editing power—Sound Forge includes DirectX Plug-In support, allowing you to utilize any DirectX effect, including Sonic Foundry's collection.
• Write to just about any file format including WAV, ASF, RM, MP3, WMA, and AVI, eliminating the need for another program to perform file conversions.
• Edit ACID™ loops with the loop-editing toolbar and permanently assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo to ACIDize new loops.
• Synchronize audio and video, frame by frame, to produce quality results for streaming media productions and multimedia presentations.
• Monitor sound levels of an audio file and adjust them accordingly to prevent distortion or other audio problems.
• Customize your toolbars to create the interface you want for quick access to commonly-used functions.
• Trigger audio playback using MIDI commands from any MIDI software or hardware device.
• Navigate through data and audio frequency using the Spectrum Analysis tool. Perform precise FFT analysis, and display resulting data in two graphical formats. Monitor and preview playback and input in real time with the Spectrum Graph and Sonogram.

New Features In Sound Forge 5.0:

• 24-bit / 32-bit float / 192 kHz support
• 18 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins (from XFX™1, XFX™2, XFX™3)
• Track-at-once CD Burning
• CD Ripping
• Acoustic Mirror™ — Acoustic Simulation and Microphone Modeling
• Wave Hammer™ Mastering Tools — Compressor and Volume Maximizer
• Updated User Interface
• Enhanced Audio Plug-In Chainer
• Repair Tools for Removing Clicks and Damaged Audio
• Vegas® Audio LE Multitrack Editor
• 60 Days of FREE Technical Support with Product Registration

New Import Formats:

• Windows Media Audio (WMA)
• OggVorbis (OGG)
• Perfect Clarity Audio™ (PCA)

New Export Formats:

• QuickTime (MOV)
• RealVideo 8 Support (RM)
• OggVorbis (OGG)
• Perfect Clarity Audio™

Features:

• Simple editing and navigation
• Drag-and-Drop operations
• Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge
• MIDI controls
• Configurable toolbars
• Mix, paste, and crossfade
• Overview window
• Undo/Redo histories
• Audio event locator
• Over 35 built-in effects & processes
• System- and user-defined function presets
• Three EQs
• Multiple-level undo and redo
• Preset Workspaces
• Effects previewing
• Crash recovery
• Direct edit mode
• Time Compression
• Spectrum Analysis
• Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
• Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
• Sample rates from 2 kHz to 192 kHz
• 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit floating point audio file support
• Video and AVI file support with frame-accurate editing
• DirectX Plug-In Support
• Embed summary information in files
• Mono and stereo sound files
• Real-time play and record meters
• Save files in the latest multimedia and Internet file formats
• Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
• Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution
• Batch Converter (downloaded separately)

  Processes:

• Auto Trim/Crop
• Mute
• Channel Converter
• Normalize
• Pan/Expand (supports mid-side mixing)
• Graphic, Paragraphic, and Parametric EQ
• DC Offset
• Resample
• Reverse
• Graphic Fade
• Smooth/Enhance
• Fade In/Out
• Time Compress
• Insert Silence
• Volume
• Invert/Flip
• Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit floating point)

  Effects:

• Acoustic Mirror
• Amplitude Modulation
• Chorus
• Distortion
• Delay/Echo (Simple and Multi-Tap)
• Dynamics (Graphic and Multi-Band)
• Envelope
• Flange/Wah-Wah
• Gapper/Snipper
• Noise Gate
• Pitch Bend/Shift
• Reverb
• Vibrato
• Wave Hammer

  Tools:

• Track at once CD burning
• CD Ripping
• Spectrum Analysis
• Auto Region
• Crossfade Loop
• Find Tool
• Preset Manager
• Sampler Tool
• Statistics Tool
• Simple Synthesis
• FM Synthesis
• DTMF/MF Synthesis

  Tools for ACID:

• Create ACIDized loops
• Loop-editing toolbar
• Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo

  Regions and Playlists:

• Nondestructive playlist
• Nondestructive cutlist
• Name markers, loops, regions
• Trigger with sequencers
• Trigger with MIDI event-generating devices
• Trigger with time code-generating devices

  Sample Editing:

• Pop-up MIDI keyboard
• Real-time loop tuning window
• SCSI/SMDI or MIDI/SDS sample transfer
• Sustaining Loop, Release Loop
• Virtual MIDI Router

  Recording:

• Auto calibration for DC Offset
• Generate SMPTE/MIDI Time Code
• Glitch/Gap Detection
• Real-time record meters
• Remote record function

  Timing Basis:

• Absolute Frames
• Measures and Beats
• Samples, Time, Seconds
• SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop
• SMPTE EBU/Film Sync
• Time and Frames

  Video Support:

• Adjustable video frame rate and frame size
• Exact video frame animation displays above waveform
• Edit AVI files with multiple audio streams
• External monitor support (if your video card supports the video compression format)
• Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video
• Sound and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy
• Various video and audio compression options
• Video preview window

System Requirements:

• 200 MHz processor
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• 32 MB RAM
• 25 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, Me, 2000, or XP
• DirectX® Media 6.0 Run Time or later (included on CD-ROM)
• Internet Explorer 4.0 or later (version 5.0 included on CD-ROM)