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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

Markers and hotkeys are the significant functions of the sound forge. One's you learned hotkey features, you can perform many tasks related to audio editing and mastering. You can remove the click and pop sound without affecting the complete track. Sound forge excellently organized your plugins. So you can save all your most-used plugins in one folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

With all advantages that sound forge has offered, there is some disappointment. During batch audio processing, you are not able to hear the effect chain. It takes a long time to import or export the long audio file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sound forge is one of the most outstanding software available for audio editing—best for beginners. Its markers and hotkey features make your audio editing task easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Digital audio & video software for professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts.

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Digital audio & video software for professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts.


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Sony
Year Founded
1946
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Tokyo, Japan
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5.0 out of 5
"SoundForge: the Unique Professional Audio Editor with Brand-new Features"
The leading solution for audio editing with solid toolset and features, not found on the audio-like platforms. The all-round audio studio to create...
Deepak M.
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2.5 out of 5
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SoundForge is quite powerful and easy to use.
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"Long time user. Long time fan."
The ability to easily edit sound clips in a well design UI.
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Mohamed A.
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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

The leading solution for audio editing with solid toolset and features, not found on the audio-like platforms. The all-round audio studio to create royalty-free sound of all formats. SoundForge easy to instal and turn your experience into art maker; it makes easy to record ultra clean sounds ready for podcasts and voiceovers. The best platform to land on for the highest quality of sound and stunning effects. SoundForge proves to be ideal for audio-visiual creators, educators, influencers and many others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

It is really difficult to find a missing feature with SoundForge, mainly Pro version. Yet, it is worth landing on for professionals. It needs a sturdy system, the more RAM chips or rates the better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

It did help me convert large files into small MP3 ones to suit the length I use in my listening classes. SoundForge resolves the problem of poor microphones, noise and helps add stunning effects, background music, easily, making your content royalty-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

It was easy to get started with Sound Forge. It has most of the basic features you need to record and edit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

Missing some of the advanced features some of the other audio editing software have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Sound Forge to edit several radio broadcasts. I found it very fast and easy to make edits, record extras or over voices. It has many of the exporting option and formats I needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

That it is easy to use for editing sound on my personal projects like field recording, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

The price could be more affordable, but the product does last a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use sound Forge when I want to go back and remaster field recordings that I have made of concerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Goddard P.
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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

The interface is good and easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

the plug in is so minum need more plug in for better experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Editing audio with more detail view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

SoundForge is quite powerful and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

It doesn't have many features to reduce noise or echo. Its sound gate feature is inadequate in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sound Forge is an adequate recording and sound management software but it could do much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

It's very user friendly and comes with some good plug-ins like Spectralayers Pro and Melodyne, in addition to many standard EFX plug-ins. I think for the price it's a decent buy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

Since MAGIX took the product over from Sony, there seems to be a never-ending amount of upgrades. It seems that they try selling you an upgrade several times a year. Sometimes it makes you feel like a cow being milked to death. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I haven't had any problems with the software other than wishing I didn't spend $199.00 for an upgrade that really doesn't amount to much. It does what they say it does, and quite efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

Soundforge is lite, and installing it is easy. It takes less than 5 minutes to prepare the full software to use . Soundforge is a sound recorder, and I like the UI and the way It provides a wide range of options you can choose to edit your song; it is easy to cut/merge the track as well as the exporting is simple. The price is fair and reasonable alsoIt has a great support . I could buy it from AMAZON for 49$.Also they sent a VST pack for installing the some Add-ons such as normalizer and analyzer which later I could add more to it . The software works smooth and the effects are handy plus It allows you to save editable project in order to edit it later . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

AS a recorder, I think this software needs more available and easy-set-up VST since It's really challenging to download and install the VSTs. It's not beginner-friendly that obvious you need to see a couple of tutorials to have a better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This software could be one the best choices for home reocrding. However, It s not beginner-friendly, but It wouldn't be so hard to learn the hints and tricks.You can buy the activston code on AMAZON from 49 and a hard copy for 59 $ . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Soundforge helped me to record, edit and cut/ merge the audio tracks and be able to edit the mass tracks for having the same quality of mastering. It also had good integrity with the VSTs to experience beyond the default software and add-ons.It helped to store my projects in differnt format line by line in seperate folders in order to export and send them to the audio engineer and producers . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

I love the ease of getting surgical on a sound file. From zooming in to apply a filter to a plosive, to grabbing a syllable and stitching together umpteen copies and pitch-bending to the depths, to moving sounds from file to file, crossfading, and inserting all with the flick of a mouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

On occasion, I'll use a 3rd party plug-in that will allow me to preview the changes but will not write those changes to the file. These are using the VST 2 and VST 3 protocols. It appears to be on delay are reverb plugins from Soundtoys mostly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

The greatest problem Sound Forge solves for me is its ability to help salvage a great performance that may have an incidental noise, or a hum, or a plosive. Between the impulse-driven noise reduction tools all the way to the bundled spectral layers plug-ins, there are few audio mishaps you can't fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

Sound Forge has hit the mark with its latest release. With its streamlined approach, recording audio is quick and easy for VO and podcasts.

No need to dive deep into the software. From the dashboard you can make quick work of your audio project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

Once again in this release you cannot customize fades. It is particularly frustrating when placing voice-over over music. In earlier versions you could customize your fades. Wish they would bring it back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sound Forge:

Sound Forge is intuitive and easy to use. It also offers robust features for the more advanced audio engineer. It is a stable platform and virtually bullet proof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I produce all of my pod-casts in Sound Forge, plus freelance voice over projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sound Forge?

Sound forge is very easy to use, and the help content will take you through all the necessary steps to accomplish your audio editing goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sound Forge?

While the user interface is very straightforward and simple, it could be more attractive as the look has been the same for several years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sound Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I produce videos and audio podcasts, so it's essential to be able to edit the audio in a time-efficient way. I like that it gives me a full range of tools, including noise reduction and compression, to maximize the quality of the recordings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.