Sound Forge Audio Studio 9.0 Digital Audio Editor
Sound Forge® Audio Studio software is the easiest way to record, edit, encode, and master audio on your home computer. Record live performances in high-fidelity sound at the touch of a button. Expertly edit recordings to balance sound levels, trim unwanted sections, or synchronize audio with video. Restore old vinyl and cassette recordings. Customize your creations with built-in effects such as EQ, delay, reverb, and chorus. To share, burn your own CDs or convert audio to formats ideal for web streaming or portable music players. The interactive Show Me How tutorials will have you up and running in no time.
Real-time audio editing and recording: To capture audio from almost any source, simple plug a microphone or instrument into your computer's sound card and start recording. Visually monitor audio levels in real time for accurate mixing. With Sound Forge® Audio Studio software, it's easy to capture instrument and vocal performances, digitize and restore old recordings, record voiceover tracks for your videos, and create custom audio effects and textures.
Enhance audio with effects: Customize your projects with more than 30 built-in audio effects such as EQ, delay, chorus, and reverb, as well as 1,001 sound effects. DirectX® and VST support expands the number of effects you can apply and increases your mastering flexibility.
Edit audio like a pro: Simply drag and drop to expertly balance sound levels, trim unwanted sections, and synchronize audio with video. You can also use Sound Forge Audio Studio software to create your own music loops and samples to use with ACID™ Music Studio software.
New! Vinyl recording and restoration: Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 software includes a Vinyl Recording and Restoration tool so users can convert records, cassettes, and other analog sources into digital format. The Vinyl Recording and Restoration tool steps users through the recording process, and even creates new tracks when it detects pauses, for ease-of-use. Users with collections of vinyl and cassettes can easily transfer them to CD or MP3 for archiving or sharing.
New! Vocal Eraser technology: Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 software includes the Vocal Eraser plug-in by iZotope. With this plug-in, users can remove vocals from songs to create karaoke tracks. Vocals can also be extracted from songs for remixing. The easy-to-use plug-in contains presets for various recording situations.
New! Full resolution 24-bit, 96kHz audio support: Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 software now supports high resolution 24-bit files and sound cards for the ultimate in audio fidelity. Users can capture the subtle overtones and nuances of instruments, vocals, and effect changes for better sounding mixes.
Encode audio and video: Quickly convert audio files to MP3, WAV, WMA, and other formats including QuickTime® and RealMedia® formats for the web. Such extensive audio support makes it easy to create your own podcasts and streaming media or export audio to MP3 players and other portable devices.
New! ATRAC editing and encoding: ATRAC (.aa3) and ATRAC lossless editing and encoding, surround encoding and decoding support, and the ability to encode up to 512 kbps, 48khz Sound Forge Audio Studio software is one of few consumer tools for editing and encoding ATRAC files, a format used by many Sony devices such as MP3 players, NET-MD players, and HI-MD players.
New! Disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning: Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 includes easy-to-use and integrated disc at once CD burning. Users can use regions within a file to designate tracks, which are then burned to CD in one continuous file. Disc-at-once CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so users can have full control over the pauses between CD audio tracks.
New! Gracenote® MusicID™ CD album identification: The Gracenote MusicID™ media recognition service can be used when "extracting" audio content from CDs. Users can automatically view information about a CD track including, title, artist, and song name, and also submit data.
Interactive Show Me How tutorials: Sony Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software-just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on 15 topics.
New! UI Color Customization: The Sound Forge Audio Studio 9 user interface can be customized including waveform and envelope colors, and default file height. This allows you to tailor your editing workflow to fit your needs for a better editing environment and increased productivity.
FEATURES
General
New! 24-bit, 96kHz audio support
New! UI customization
Built-in Show Me How interactive tutorials
Simple editing and navigation
Drag-and-drop operations
Real-time nondestructive editing
Multitask background rendering
Media Explorer with automatic file previewing
Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge
Fully customizable toolbars
Mix, paste, and crossfade
Automatic file mixing and conversion
Unlimited Undo/Redo
Over 30 built-in effects & processes
System and user-defined function presets
Enhanced Preset Manager
Crash recovery
Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
Mono and stereo sound files
Real-time play and record meters
Full support for 4 GB and larger files
Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution
SPECIFICATIONS
Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows Vista™
900 MHz processor
150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
256 MB RAM
Windows-compatible sound card
DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning)
Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on application disc)
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (included on application disc)
Supported File Formats
Opens: AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, SND, DIG, SD, IVC, MP3, MPEG-1*, MPEG-2*, OGG, OMA, PCA, QuickTime®, RAW, SFA, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, Windows Media®
Saves: AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, IVC, MP3, MPEG-1*, MPEG-2*, OGG, RealAudio®, PCA, RAW, RealVideo, QuickTime, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, Windows Media
*MPEG 1 & 2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in from Sony Creative Software.
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