SOUND FORGE PRO 16
AUDIO EDITING SOLUTION FOR PROFESSIONALS
SOUND FORGE Pro
YOUR FAVORITE ENGINEER'S FAVORITE TOOL
SOUND FORGE Pro has been the creative audio editing tool of choice for over 30 years.Its extensive range of professional features make it the go-to for many producers and sound engineers worldwide. The new workflow improvements let you effortlessly record, edit, restore and master. Create, mix, and design sound effects in SOUND FORGE Pro audio editing software. Accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing, and deliver a polished mix with pure sound.
Recording
64-bit precision
Record audio on up to 32 channels and in 64-bit/768 kHz. Experience a 64-bit audio engine with ultimate stability and lowest latency.
Record vocals, instruments or podcasts in crystal-clear quality.
Audio Editing
Maximum efficiency
Discover a massive array of state-of-the-art editing tools that allow you to customize your sound and shape it exactly the way you want.
Restoration & Mastering
Sonic excellence
Master your audio material with industry-leading DSP algorithms. Use innovative effects to optimize the loudness of your recordings without ever sacrificing transparency.
Create red book masters, DDPs and master files optimized for streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal.s
NEW IN SOUND FORGE PRO 16
Your creativity has top priority in the new SOUND FORGE Pro 16 – MAGIX has developed a new dynamic workflow to help you get the most out of your productions.
Experience brand-new features like dynamicEQ, loudness visualization, and an improved multichannel workflow. Enjoy an expanded Plug-in manager and the redesigned resampling engine. Record, edit & master more efficiently than ever before with SOUND FORGE Pro 16.
NEW! dynamicEQ
Easily shape your own, completely unique sound with dynamicEQ
Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts exactly where it will enhance your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate, and shape sounds throughout your project with the maximum precision and level control. The multiple filter options for EQ band configuration enable significantly more precise options when editing, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks (as well as all tracks containing virtual instruments).
Exclusively in the Suite
NEW! New Loudness visualization
Achieve improved workflows using Loudness visualization
The new Loudness visualization displays the loudness of your audio files in a continuous graph in relation to the timeline and as numerical values. ??Enjoy support for EBU R 128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4 formats thanks to true-peak analysis in dbTP that can be configured using simple presets, all of which is displayed with intuitive color coding to simplify your workflow.
NEW! Optimized multichannel workflow
Featuring improved support for multichannel audio files
Enjoy significant enhancements to support for multichannel audio files. SOUND FORGE allows you to create, load and save new files with any configuration. This provides feedback the selected setup all the time and lets you benefit from the ability to convert and export different formats containing up to 32 channels.
NEW! Expanded Plug-in manager
Enhanced organization thanks to the expanded Plug-in manager
In the newly redesigned Plug-in manager, all your plug-ins are arranged in clear categories and sorted by manufacturer and type. ??Thanks to the new filter options and the integrated search field, you can access the desired plug-ins quickly and conveniently – simply enter a search, apply the right effect, and mark your favorites for future projects.
NEW! New resampling engine
Achieve the highest quality with the best resampling engine
Thanks to the newly redesigned internal resampling engine, you can work with any sample rate in your project without prior conversion. ?The program's engine is now faster, supports more formats, and provides better output quality. The customizable engine ensures that you always output the highest quality and achieve maximum results from your media in real time without prior conversion.
Remote Recording
Keep better track of the recording process with the remote recording
The sleek, floating window provides maximum ease of use for recording control – place it anywhere in any running application & keep all essential recording options at your fingertips. This means you can keep your voiceover texts for audiobooks and podcasts in the desired position and start recording right away.
HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW! dynamicEQ (exclusively in the Suite)
- NEW! Loudness visualization
- NEW! Optimized multichannel workflow
- NEW! Expanded Plug-in manager
- NEW! Resampling engine
- Mastering and restoration with iZotope plug-ins: Ozone 9 Elements & RX 8 Elements
- 32-channel audio recording, editing and processing
- VST Engine & ARA2 support
- Record at up to 64-bit/768 kHz
- Numerous audio effects & plug-ins for sound design as well as mixing & mastering
- zplane élastiquePro v3 Timestretch
SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite
With its range of sophisticated plug-ins such as the innovative Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 and Celemony Melodyne 5 essential, SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite sets new standards in the field of audio.
Exclusively included:
- NEW! dynamicEQ
- wizardFX Modern Reverb
- Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8
- Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
- essentialFX Suite (11 high-quality effect plug-ins)
- Analogue Modelling Suite (4 mastering plug-ins)
- Vintage Effects Suite (3 vintage effects)
- VariVerb II (versatile reverb plug-in)
- Vandal (virtual guitar & bass amps)
SpectraLayers 8
SpectraLayers Pro 8 is the most advanced audio spectrum editor on the market and transforms sound into a unique visual world of multidimensional audio data.
With this visual approach and the extensive toolkit in SpectraLayers, it's easy to rearrange, extract and optimize sounds in ways never before imagined. The new version 8 is the ideal complement to the SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite with its improved tools and workflows. It allows automatic, artificial intelligence-driven, processes across multiple layers to provide the best possible results.
Unmixing Layers
With new tools driven by AI technology, audio tracks can now be unmixed in Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8. This means that music can be split and isolated into individual layers. Extract vocals, piano, bass, drums and other instruments from stems, or separate sound, noise and transient layers. Use the new unmixing function as a creative tool for remixing new songs.
Integration of External DAWs
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 can seamlessly access editing effects from other audio applications, meaning it can be used with a selected audio file right away. All edits you make are synchronized too.
Advanced Selection System
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 offers incomparable precision when it comes to selecting sections of the audio spectrum. Create user-defined 2D fade masks at the edge of a selection, model fades on a visual basis and view all resulting changes in amplitude in realtime.
Apply VST 3 Effects
The latest VST 3 plug-in support now enables you to apply additional VST 3 plug-ins to individual layers, as well as in standalone or ARA mode. Apply interesting VST 3 effects on the spectral layer and discover entirely new options for creative editing.
What you can do with Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro
Mixing with Spectral Casting
Use the frequency spectrum of one layer as a cast or mold for carving an impression directly into the spectrum of a second layer. Spectral Casting/Spectral Molding opens up unexplored new worlds of audio processing possibilities.
Sound Design with Spectral Molding
Spectral Molding offers an extensive bandwidth of sounds: The technology enables users to transfer spectral data between recordings and create an entirely new and different sound aesthetic. For instance, you can give a guitar recording the acoustic texture of vocals.
Cleaning with Acoustic Fingerprints
Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 is able to create exact prints of noise interference and then suppress them or remove them completely from the track. This technology offers you absolute precision for achieving crystal-clear audio results.
ARA2 Plug-in
The ARA2 plug-in integrates Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 directly in SOUND FORGE Pro 16. Once set up, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 behaves just like an independent part of the DAW and integrates essential components of the host DAW such as track colors and other elements.
Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
Melodyne essential is the perfect complement to the audio editing functions offered by SOUND FORGE Pro 16 and with its built-in ARA2 and AAX support, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 is equally so.
Discover the legendary tool for precise audio correction.
Vintage Effects Suite
Reproduce the naturally full and warm sound of analog tools in an authentic way.
VariVerb II
Room for new ideas: Create the exact reverb effect you've been looking for.
Vandal
Vandal is a virtual guitar & bass amplifier with superb effects that lets you easily simulate any kind of guitar effect in a realistic way.