#Sony sound forge 9 review plus
#Sony sound forge 9 review professional

ItвЂ™s also more complex to move both the start and end points of a selection simultaneously, which now involves a new selection marker at the top. It took us a while to understand, but itвЂ™s a decent system that weвЂ™re happy to get used to. Dragging across different parts of the waveform still selects a single or all channels, but how this works is more fiddly than before вЂ“ now you have to visit the top of the waveform and use the Selection control from there. Surround support also brings with it a change in the way the Selection Tool works. As such, weвЂ™d like to see an option to disable it. This is potentially very useful for sound design tasks, but considerably less so when working with stereo or surround mixes, where youвЂ™d lose sync between channels. Sony appears to have acknowledged this potential, as itвЂ™s now possible to insert or delete audio from individual tracks to offset the timing of one against another. ItвЂ™s easy enough to route each stereo pair to a single pair of speakers, whereby itвЂ™s possible to create collages of sounds on different tracks (it canвЂ™t handle true multitrack recording, as you canвЂ™t monitor existing tracks while recording). Support for up to eight audio channels brings with it a rudimentary form of multitrack editing. Channels arenвЂ™t clearly labelled, though, and some of the plug-ins canвЂ™t process surround mixes.

2.1, quadraphonic, 5.1 and 7.1 formats are supported, and 5.1 mixes can be saved in Dolby Digital format. This comes surprisingly late in the day вЂ“ the hype having come and gone in the music industry вЂ“ but itвЂ™s a welcome feature for those working in video production. The biggest change elsewhere is support for surround sound.

#Sony sound forge 9 review professional

The quality falls short of processors used in professional mastering studios, but theyвЂ™re considerably better than the other bundled effects in Sound Forge, or any other stereo editor for that matter.

For all its graphical niceties, though, inexperienced users are likely to struggle with the multiband compressor, since thereвЂ™s no documentation available for this inherently complex plug-in. All four plug-ins have well-conceived interfaces, and we particularly like the limiterвЂ™s novel input volume display, giving a useful guide to how much dynamic range youвЂ™re losing. It only simulates rooms and plates and not halls and ambiences, but it might see some use when mastering voice-over work.

#Sony sound forge 9 review plus

It comprises multiband compression, EQ and brick-wall limiting вЂ“ the three standard ingredients in a mastering chain вЂ“ plus reverb. Top billing on the new features list is a quartet of iZotope plug-ins called the Mastering Effect Bundle.