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Subject:Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? Posted by: smnsez Date:12/7/2000 7:43:00 AM Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you click on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page, you see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge. What benefit is there with combining these two prods? THANKS!! Barry
Subject:Re: Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? Reply by: Ted_H Date:12/7/2000 12:15:00 PM Hi Barry, The editing functions of the two programs are somewhat similar. The biggest difference is the number of tracks available in the two programs. Vegas Audio has unlimited tracks and has tools for multitrack recording. Sound Forge on the other hand is a two track (stereo) editor, and you will find that Sound Forge 4.5 has tools that are more suitable for mastering. Sound Forge also includes Batch Converter and Spectrum Analysis tools. If you were to use the programs together, you could use Vegas Audio to track a recording session, and then use Sound Forge to edit and master the final mix. Ted Barry wrote: >>Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these >>two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to >>do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It >>seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you click >>on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page, you >>see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge. >>What benefit is there with combining these two prods? >>THANKS!! >>Barry
Subject:Re: Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? Reply by: AlexH Date:12/8/2000 5:27:00 PM Thanks for the interest! Vegas Audio is a family of mixing tools. Sound Forge is an editing tool. With the proper hardware you could record or load several tracks into Vegas. Vegas would then become your mixing studio. Its true that in Vegas you can add most Sonic Foundry effects such as Chorus and Distortion. You can also control pan and volume envelopes for each individual track and then play back all track at once. Sound Forge, a slightly less expensive application, allows the mixing of two tracks into a single track as well as control of pan and volume envelopes over a single track. But it is designed to playback one file at a time making it a better tool for editing a single file. Each product has is own specialty, but also work together as a team to provide a full professional audio editing and mixing environment. You can record your multi-track project into Vegas, launch Sound Forge from Vegas to perform focused editing on tracks that exist in Vegas, and then jump back to Vegas to mix your project down. Hope this helps, Alex Hilgendorf QA Engineer Sonic Foundry Barry wrote: >>Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these >>two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to >>do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It >>seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you click >>on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page, you >>see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge. >>What benefit is there with combining these two prods? >>THANKS!! >>Barry

Subject:Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio?

Posted by: smnsez

Date:12/7/2000 7:43:00 AM

Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these
two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to
do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It
seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you click
on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page, you
see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge.
What benefit is there with combining these two prods?
THANKS!!
Barry

Subject:Re: Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio?

Reply by: Ted_H

Date:12/7/2000 12:15:00 PM

Hi Barry,

The editing functions of the two programs are somewhat
similar. The biggest difference is the number of tracks
available in the two programs. Vegas Audio has unlimited
tracks and has tools for multitrack recording. Sound Forge
on the other hand is a two track (stereo) editor, and you
will find that Sound Forge 4.5 has tools that are more
suitable for mastering. Sound Forge also includes Batch
Converter and Spectrum Analysis tools. If you were to use
the programs together, you could use Vegas Audio to track a
recording session, and then use Sound Forge to edit and
master the final mix.

Ted

Barry wrote:
>>Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these
>>two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to
>>do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It
>>seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you
click
>>on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page,
you
>>see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge.
>>What benefit is there with combining these two prods?
>>THANKS!!
>>Barry

Subject:Re: Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio?

Reply by: AlexH

Date:12/8/2000 5:27:00 PM

Thanks for the interest!

Vegas Audio is a family of mixing tools. Sound Forge is an
editing tool.

With the proper hardware you could record or load several
tracks into Vegas. Vegas would then become your mixing
studio. Its true that in Vegas you can add most Sonic
Foundry effects such as Chorus and Distortion. You can
also control pan and volume envelopes for each individual
track and then play back all track at once.

Sound Forge, a slightly less expensive application, allows
the mixing of two tracks into a single track as well as
control of pan and volume envelopes over a single track.
But it is designed to playback one file at a time making it
a better tool for editing a single file.

Each product has is own specialty, but also work together
as a team to provide a full professional audio editing and
mixing environment. You can record your multi-track
project into Vegas, launch Sound Forge from Vegas to
perform focused editing on tracks that exist in Vegas, and
then jump back to Vegas to mix your project down.

Hope this helps,
Alex Hilgendorf
QA Engineer
Sonic Foundry

Barry wrote:
>>Can someone tell me the core difference(s) between these
>>two packages Sound Forge 4.5 vs Vegas Audio? They seem to
>>do the same thing on the digital audio editing side. It
>>seems that Vegas Audio is the way to go, but when you
click
>>on the Learn More button on side of a Vegas Audio page,
you
>>see that SF suggests using Vegas with Sound Forge.
>>What benefit is there with combining these two prods?
>>THANKS!!
>>Barry