Sound Forge 5 users

Remco Halderhooter · Post by **Remco Halderhooter** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:00 pm

I recently had to reinstall XP on my machine. My cd was the first version of 5 which had a few bugs, so I went to to the Sony site to download the most up to date version of SF 5 and couldn't find it. All the other versions were there, but no 5. I emailed support and they said that they could no longer offer it for 'technical reasons'. So they gave me a free serial number for SF 7 and said I should download that instead.

Well worth doing if only for way faster cutting/pasting in big files. Maybe Sony aren't evil after all...

cheers RH

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:50 pm

TBH I always liked SoundForge 6 better than 7 or 8... it's a lot faster, more responsive on my computer.

tim-e · Post by **tim-e** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:59 pm

I use sf6 too. Better than 5, and I haven't bothered with 7 or 8.

fzero · Post by **fzero** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:15 pm

I think Soundforge sucks independently of its version. Wavelab it's so much better it hurts.

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:52 pm

fzero wrote:Wavelab it's so much better it hurts.

Auuw!!

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:47 pm

fzero wrote:I think Soundforge sucks independently of its version. Wavelab it's so much better it hurts.

that's it

Editing shoot-out at dawn

fzero · Post by **fzero** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:51 pm

Hey, hey, it's just my opinion.

I stopped using SF because you can't simply slap VST/DX plugins and play with them in real time as you do in Wavelab. Besides, it comes with CD and DVD burner built-in and does everything I need, so it works for me. If you like that piece of cra, I mean, Soundforge, I can't really do anything about it, can I?

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:56 pm

yeah, horses for courses. I went with SoundForge for sheer speed and hotkey action - I hardly touch my mouse when using it. Version8 has CD Architect built-in, best cd authoring program ever.

fzero · Post by **fzero** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:08 pm

Machinate wrote:Version8 has CD Architect built-in, best cd authoring program ever.

Oh yeah, I agree about CD Architect. I used to keep SF 4.5 installed only to use it. Thankfully, there's a stand-alone version now - which I don't have, but it's on my wishlist.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:55 pm

OK help me out here - what does a audio editor do that Pro-Tools doesn't?

I had a dream about Sound Forge last night (Honestly) and this latino gang member was getting basslines from samples via SF, when I asked him to show me his technique he told me download the program and then the dream gets kind of funny

I opened a session of SF and it was installed for life on my computer

but anywayz - what's the benefit of a audio editor - I had SF years ago but that was when I had a MPC

thanks

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Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:58 pm

It's brilliant for trimming loads of samples, batch-processing, quick normalization and such.

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:04 pm

djadonis206 wrote: but anywayz - what's the benefit of a audio editor
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Good question. I used to be in SF all the time (trimming splicing reversing crossfading, enveloping) when I was a Logic user now that I have Live I hardly touch it anymore.

atmofunk · Post by **atmofunk** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:48 pm

i use it for post processing..

but yeah, sample editing just isn't necessary anymore... unless i'm working with one shots for button rollovers ona website or something like that, then i find using SF is just quicker for me, and i can save out as mp3 from there too..

KInetic · Post by **KInetic** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:50 pm

djadonis206 wrote: I had a dream about Sound Forge last night (Honestly) and this latino gang member was getting basslines from samples via SF, when I asked him to show me his technique he told me download the program and then the dream gets kind of funny

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Dude, maybe it´s the beer doing it for me, but that shit made me laugh my brains out.

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:37 am

djadonis206 wrote: what's the benefit of a audio editor

I find it a useful addition to have a wave editor (Audition) alongside Live. I use it for noise reduction (getting rid of hiss, clicks and pops, etc), and it's sometimes useful to just add effects destructively (Audition hosts VST and DX but also comes with some fantastic internal effects of its own) so that I can simply run audio clips in Live. Also I use it for CD burning, converting files to MP3 format for uploading/sharing online, and sometimes use its' multitrack facilities for mixing together larger files.

Having said all of that... I recently got myself a copy of Sonar 5 PE, which does pretty much all the stuff I do in Audition except the noise reduction and CD burning. I can't really see that there is much point in having a wave editor when you host can do all the stuff that Sonar does.

I prefer Live 5 as a host - my favourite for sure! So Audition stays for now. But maybe as Live continues to develop there will come a time - as with Sonar - when having a seperate wave editor will no longer be necessary!