Has Sony given up on Sound Forge? -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Has Sony given up on Sound Forge? Posted by: porkjelly Date:5/25/2004 10:20:05 AM Forgive me if I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. It's been nearly eight months since Sony's first and only update to Sound Forge 7.0, and they still haven't posted a fix to the bugs in Multi-Band Dynamics and Graphic Dynamics, problems which they have aknowledged. Any word?
Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge? Reply by: musiclab Date:5/27/2004 1:25:47 PM Of course, I do have the same suspicion. When will a major update or upgrade be scheduled ? Soundforge 7a has cleary lost the leadership in Mastering application. Most of Direct X plug Ins on the market, Waves etc... are more effective. Actually, Wavelab 5 seems to be the rigth choice because of their DVD authoring. At least, they do not need to buy an extra application. What do you think ?
Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge? Reply by: Rednroll Date:5/28/2004 7:33:59 AM Wavelab 5.0 I haven't used it yet, but have seen a list of the new features. I agree they are quite impressive, but that was preceeded with a couple stagnent versions in my opinion with a long wait from v4.0. With Sound Forge 7.0a for my mastering needs, I have not run into any problems and believe SF7 got some much needed mastering need improvements. As far as plugins, I believe a lot of the Sound Forge plugins are getting long in tooth comparitively, but I don't use the Sony plugins that much and choose to use other vendors that specialize in plugins, but of course you will pay a good price for Waves plugins, exceeding that of Sound Forge's entire price.
Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge? Reply by: Iacobus Date:5/29/2004 5:57:19 PM Adding to what Red said, Sound Forge 7.0 is $399, while WaveLab 5.0 is $699. If you were to ask me, WaveLab is no longer what it once was. I can't tell if it's a digital audio editor anymore. ACID loop creation tools are important to me, so Sound Forge remains my choice. Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page Guitars 4 Kids

Subject:Has Sony given up on Sound Forge?

Posted by: porkjelly

Date:5/25/2004 10:20:05 AM

Forgive me if I'm beginning to sound like a broken record. It's been nearly eight months since Sony's first and only update to Sound Forge 7.0, and they still haven't posted a fix to the bugs in Multi-Band Dynamics and Graphic Dynamics, problems which they have aknowledged. Any word?

Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge?

Reply by: musiclab

Date:5/27/2004 1:25:47 PM

Of course, I do have the same suspicion. When will a major update or upgrade be scheduled ?
Soundforge 7a has cleary lost the leadership in Mastering application. Most of Direct X plug Ins on the market, Waves etc... are more effective. Actually, Wavelab 5 seems to be the rigth choice because of their DVD authoring. At least, they do not need to buy an extra application.
What do you think ?

Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:5/28/2004 7:33:59 AM

Wavelab 5.0 I haven't used it yet, but have seen a list of the new features. I agree they are quite impressive, but that was preceeded with a couple stagnent versions in my opinion with a long wait from v4.0. With Sound Forge 7.0a for my mastering needs, I have not run into any problems and believe SF7 got some much needed mastering need improvements. As far as plugins, I believe a lot of the Sound Forge plugins are getting long in tooth comparitively, but I don't use the Sony plugins that much and choose to use other vendors that specialize in plugins, but of course you will pay a good price for Waves plugins, exceeding that of Sound Forge's entire price.

Subject:RE: Has Sony given up on Sound Forge?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:5/29/2004 5:57:19 PM

Adding to what Red said, Sound Forge 7.0 is $399, while WaveLab 5.0 is $699.

If you were to ask me, WaveLab is no longer what it once was. I can't tell if it's a digital audio editor anymore.

ACID loop creation tools are important to me, so Sound Forge remains my choice.

Iacobus
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RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page
Guitars 4 Kids