Sound Forge 5.0

by Sonic Foundry

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005AYD1
• Item model number: SF5000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 28, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,250 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sound Forge is a two-track digital audio editor with a complete set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. The application is useful 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.

Sound Forge provides a combination of more than 35 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets. It includes dozens of editing features, including: cut, paste, move, delete, mute, reverse, crossfade, trim, normalize, fade, pan, resample, enhance, insert silence, and more. Sound Forge includes 18 DirectX audio plug-Ins, including XFX 1, XFX 2, XFX 3, and Acoustic Mirror, which can be used for acoustic simulation and microphone modeling. The entire arsenal of effects includes amplitude modulation, chorus, delay, distortion, flange, gapper, noise gate, pitch bend, reverb, vibrato, time compression, wave hammer, and more. Sound Forge also includes three EQs--Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic--and supports DirectX plug-ins from third-party applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent sound editor, January 11, 2002

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This review is from: Sound Forge 5.0 (CD-ROM)

In a search for some way to edit my tapes, records and discs, I have tried several products. I finally stubled onto Sound Forge 4.5. When Sound Forge 5.0 came out, I jumped on it. Sound Forge is easy to use and will do much more than I expected using only a computer. Help is excellent and the program is easy to use. It also has an excellent 'undo' capability. Unless you want to go into professional recording, Sonic Forge will serve you well.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nearly everything I need, December 6, 2001

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Christo "montxsuz" (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Forge 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I have been using Sound Forge since about version 3. New versions don't come out very often, but they are usually worthwhile. The latest version of Sound Forge has the Batch Converter, Acoustic Mirror and Effects Processors included. These were optional extras with the previous versions. So the only extra I needed to buy was Noise Reduction - a plug-in that I use fairly frequently.

There are many digital audio editing programs on the market, but I find that Sound Forge does nearly every thing I need, and I have never been tempted to look elsewhere. Sound Forge has a sizeble set of processes, tools and effects built-in, and recognizes Direct-X plug-ins from other manufacturers. Apart from that, you can convert nearly any known digital audio format to nearly any other.

My interest is computer music, and I use Sound Forge for recording and manipulating sounds. I use Sonic Foundry's Vegas Audio for mixing. Sound Forge is stable, fast, and well equiped. My only small critisism is that extracting sound from CDs and creating CDs could have been a bit more user-friendly.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A godsend!, August 18, 2001

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David Kuznicki (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Forge 5.0 (CD-ROM)

Sound Forge continues with 5.0 to be THE choice for 2 channel mixing. Sonic Foundry, God bless them, took a great program (Sound Forge 4.5) and retooled it into a perfect program. Now included are Acoustic Mirror & XFX 1-3. If you're mixing to CD, video,etc., then you need Sound Forge. Period.