Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Posted by: brothership

Date:9/15/2011 6:42:12 AM

Is it too early (as in way to early, seeing how ACID Pro hasn't even gotten a new version out yet) to post feature requests for Sound Forge Pro 11? I know I know...there's a suggest a feature feature on this website, but I like posting suggestings on here as it encourages participation and feedback. Anyone wanna take a jab?

ETA: attempted to delet my original post to rename it, but was unsuccessful.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: brothership

Date:9/22/2011 6:18:18 AM

So much for participation...so I'll start out...

I'd like to see an improvement on the tabbed windows feature. It seems as if the developers just threw this out there because a few users (myself included) were complaining about the program's clumsy handling of multiple open files. It's still rather clumsy. It works if your files have short names, allowing you to view the tabs of up to a dozen open or so open files. If they have long names (which mine tend to do, as I work extensively with DJ remixes), they get pushed beyond the edge of the workspace. You then have to click and click just to navigate to the desired tab. So cumbersome. It sort of defeats the purpose of having such a feature like this. On top of that, there is no way to sort them. Working with tabbed windows in Internet Explorer, I tend to rearrange my tabs quite often, a habit I stubbornly carry over to Sound Forge, only to discover that I can't do that with these tabs. D'oh!

I'd also like to see improvements with Batch Converter. Currently, there is no option to configure replacing/renaming existing/new files. There's also no way to select certain mulitple files already queued up and delete them. Converter also has an annoying tendency to navigate to the last folder used in Sound Forge, independent of the folder where your Converter presets are actually stored. This is cause for more clicking and clicking.

Can you tell I hate clicking and clicking?

Lastly (for now anyway), I'd like to see icons for the third party plug-ins, such as iZotope. It would be nice to have access to them like the other features of Sound Forge without having to click and click to get to them.

I have more suggestions and requests, but this is it for now...

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: PixelStuff

Date:10/10/2011 10:21:38 PM

* Updated Audio Restoration Package *

I really like the visual "paint out the noise" method in Adobe Soundbooth/Audition and the iZotope RX. It's only something I use once or twice a year so not worth buying the iZotope plugin, but it would be nice to have the feature in Sound Forge instead of exporting it to Soundbooth.

Plus there has always been something about the Cool Edit -> Audition regular noise reduction tool that seems to work better than the Noise Reduction 2.0 plugin currently in Sound Forge.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: PixelStuff

Date:10/10/2011 10:26:28 PM

* Dark Interface *

Perhaps they could develop a new dark interface style with basic window chrome, but a data view like the iZotope plugins which, to me, have really detailed and crisp waveforms and adjustment controls. I don't really care for all the 3D interface chrome in some of the iZotope plugins, but really like the way they display the actual data. Especially the Ozone, Alloy, and RX plugins.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/11/2011 12:07:20 AM

I wish they would go back to the user color choice feature they had prior to version 5 (maybe thereabouts), where we could choose each color individually. The new method that generates a palette from one color choice ends up with cases where it's almost impossible to see the wave form against the background when it's selected.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: rraud

Date:10/12/2011 9:45:34 AM

I hear ya Kelly, why SCS changed the display color parameters is beyond my comprehension. That and the 'duck' feature that was removed after SF-8 as I recall. In addition the 'Properties' dialog was easier to navigate prior to SF-10, IMO anyway.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: brothership

Date:11/17/2011 6:47:02 PM

• An all-in-one backup feature that saves settings, window layouts, icon arrangements, presets, etc. in one convenient file easily retrievable from within SF itself

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: Larry Clifford

Date:11/18/2011 6:43:09 AM

I don't know if SF 10 is the end of the line, at least for the forseeable future, or not. It appears that everything is going to Vegas Pro. I realize that is their 'bread and butter' program.

I vented on this in July - http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=3&MessageID=769410

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: AtomicGreymon

Date:11/30/2011 8:24:03 PM

I don't think 10 is the end, but yes, Vegas does receive more attention and more frequent updates. The nature of the video realm tend to require more frequent updates, though, IMO. With a few exceptions, we tend not to see many new audio formats that might need supporting via new software, or radically new recording hardware that's just incompatible with anything prior. Sound Forge 10 works as well with any new equipment today than Sound Forge 8 or 9 would. The same can't really be said of Vegas 11 compared to 8, 9 or 10. The bulk of SF upgrades these days are simply expansions to the range of processing tools or plug-ins, perhaps some UI improvements, etc.

Personally, I'm hoping there's a new SF release coming at some point next year. I'm currently on 9, and I plan to wait to upgrade until 11 is released and there's another limited-time upgrade price. Considering I just upgraded to Vegas 11 for $139, the current upgrade price to SF10 ($239) seems a little steep when 11 could come out at any time, as far as any of us know.

I also plan to upgrade my Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection when CS6 is released next year, and with that I'll finally have Adobe Audition (it wasn't included in the MC the last version I bought, which was CS3... got Soundbooth instead, *meh*), so while I'm willing to upgrade SF even having Audition, it won't be at $239.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: PaulJG

Date:3/28/2012 3:02:27 PM

(If they ever update SF and Acid)

This might sound like a silly "Feature Request".

Esthetically, it is lame. They could definitely make it more appealing to the eyes.

For instance, the iZotopes look great with the black background and neon looks to parts of them.

Ive been using SF for years and like it a lot. They started to upgrade the look in Vegas but they need to do more. I have to look at this stuff hours on end and it all starts to blend together.

As for other upgrades, they have already been mentioned and I don't need to regurgitate them here.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:3/28/2012 4:16:42 PM

I actually prefer the straightforward "businesslike" layout and default colour scheme.

In fact the default "prettiness" of apps such as REAPER really quite puts me off. Even the new Vegas default scheme I find irritating.

geoff

Subject:RE: Sound Forge 11 Feature Requests

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:3/28/2012 4:56:44 PM

Geoff, yes, exactly.

I know a lot of people bash on Microsoft for a lot of things, but as far as UI, they spent an enormous amount of time and money researching what "looks good" and "works good" on a PC. The Windows 95/98-esque theme was the pinnacle of that research. Yes, it is very business-like and dated, but it is also the best combination that allowed people to sit down and work efficiently, spending their time learning how to get work done rather than learning how to interact with the software. I still have my XP and even my Win7 machines set up to look like Windows 98 did, and it's NICE! The OS sits in the background, gets out of the way, and lets me use the software i want to use without intruding.

Programs that use that era theme are still consistently easier and faster to learn and less irritating to look at for long periods of time.

Sadly it's been downhill and backwards since then.