Subject:Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac???

Posted by: Soarer

Date:9/27/2007 12:33:53 PM

I have made the switch to Mac since I had so many problems finding a Audio interface that would run smoothly with the PC laptop I had bought. Returned the laptop and got a Macbook Pro which I'm very happy with now! But I really miss Sound Forge! I had just upgraded to 9 and none of the available audio editors for Mac comes even near in ease of use/workflow/features.
The Mac pro alternative Bias Peak comes with a 4 band equalizer and it's twice the price of SF!

Anyway I'd just like to ask if you have heard of any rumors of a future Mac version???

Sony has kindly allowed me to sell my license but I may still want to try using SF on windows on my Mac via Fusion/Parallels.

Have anyone tried to use Sound Forge via Fusion/Parallels?

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac???

Reply by: Kennymusicman

Date:9/27/2007 1:28:15 PM

Make your life better.. Run bootcamp, boot windows, and use SF when you want it.

You could not have tried many audio interfaces - I can name some that have run perfectly with windows.

HTH

Ken

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: Soarer

Date:9/27/2007 3:12:33 PM

Yes I may do that. Has any one tried to use Sound Forge on a Mac using windows? Does it work alright?

Regarding the Audio interfaces I did not tell the full story. The problems I had was probably mainly caused by the Zepto laptop I had bought.
I tried using 2 Top Firewire and 2 USB2 cards and they ran really badly with the laptop.
I got my money back and wanted a Mac since I didn't want more of those problems. Now I can use my RME Fireface with buspower (many PC laptop comes with a 4 pin firewire port i.e. no bus power) and using it with only 64 samples per buffer setting. I've switched and I'm happy with that.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: drbam

Date:9/28/2007 7:17:55 AM

All the Sony apps run fine on my XP bootcamp partition - even with cheap usb interfaces (like the entry-level Edirol or the Behringer thing) but my main laptop interface is a Mackie Satillite and it works great. IMO, the real key is optimizing XP for audio.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: kbruff

Date:9/28/2007 12:56:05 PM

The word optimize is not easily understood by MAC users.

Sorry --no insult intended, but I can tell you that many of my colleagues who are MAC users just dont seem to know about settings and other tweaks.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: Soarer

Date:9/28/2007 2:16:07 PM

Good to hear drbam thx

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:9/28/2007 9:31:42 PM

All PC laptops come witha PC-Card slot into which you can plug a $30 Firewire interface with Bus-power. But too late now.

If you have sold your licence, you can no longer run SF on Windows or on your Mac laptop.

geoff

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: Angels

Date:9/29/2007 3:56:26 AM

"Have anyone tried to use Sound Forge via Fusion/Parallels?"

FYI, out of curiosity I tested SF8 in Parallels on Mac OSX on a friend's system earlier this year and was quite surprised to find that it worked just fine. I don't know if it works in the Parallels wrapper (making it run as an individual app within OSX); I don't currently use a Mac though I've been considering it for the road.

You can download a 15-day demo of Parallels and try the demo version of SF. Please do report here and let us know if it works if you do try it out. I'd be really curious to see if it still works.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: drbam

Date:9/29/2007 7:13:38 AM

FWIW, an Sony tech posted on the Acid forum few months back that Parallels does not work well with Acid - Sound Forge wasn't mentioned in that thread. But given the content of what he posted, I would be surprised if one didn't run into some problems, especially with complex projects and heavy plugin automation/processing.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: Angels

Date:9/29/2007 11:13:15 AM

[TOTALLY OT!!... sorry!)

drbam, how does the Mac audio hardware appear under XP? Are there WDM or ASIO drivers for it? Very curious. Thanks. And sorry to all...

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: drbam

Date:9/29/2007 3:31:53 PM

In my experience so far XP via bootcamp works exactly like any other XP windows system. Bootcamp simply allows one to partition the drive and install XP. Of course, not all keyboard commands and such work the same but for me, having my PC audio apps on my mac laptop is definitely a great thing. As far as drivers, I can't really say other than the first thing I did was optimize XP for audio and then only installed the drivers for my Mackie Satellite interface which is only ASIO. So I imagine that you install drivers per your specific soundcard instructions. If you use the on board soundcard (not recommended) it shows up as soundmapper or some such crap. A few months ago I did hook up a cheap Behringer USB interface and it showed up allowing me to choose WMD or soundmapper if recall correctly. BTW as with my studio I don't allow the XP partition on line so it can't go anywhere on its own to search for drivers and other stuff I don't want or need.

Subject:RE: Any rumors/plans of Sound Forge for Mac??

Reply by: colinu

Date:10/2/2007 5:41:34 AM

I have been toying with jumping to a mac, but because I love Sound Forge , I haven't done it yet. Am also waiting to see how Mac updated OS is received.