Until I dumped Adobe for good, a product like Sound Forge seemed redundant even though i preferred it to Audition.Ĥ) Guess on my part, but I think it is easier to market 'miracle' compressors and other things that can be pitched as ' instant gooderizers' than to make a wave editor sound anything but what it is. No audacity is not as good, but for a budget conscious musician who is mostly hobbyist, the expense on top of DAW became less and less appealingĢ) Competition from specialized products strictly for mastering (ozone, t-racks, etc) and audio repair/processing (Izotope RX) that left people with choices that favored competitionģ) The acquisition of Cool Edit Pro and subsequent change to bundled cloud model which left a lot of us with Audition whether we wanted it or not. The market for products like Soundforge got reduced by:ġ)Free Alternatives like Audacity for basic editing. I wonder why the plugin companies mostly launch nothing but compressors, saturation, distortion, equalizers and synthesizers! IMO they should better invest their manpower in such helpfull plugins like the one above (there are almost no competitors in this area)! Yes, all this editing stuff could also be done straight in the DAWs with plugins (if there were any, except iZotope/Acon Digital ones!), 'cos most DAWs allow also destructive changes with plugins on a selected area (like in an external editor). This may be important for those who still use the old, but necessary programs. I will also add that version 12 is the latest version that can be installed on Windows XP (using NNN Changer). All this at once in one process in batch-converter. I only compress the peaks and raise the volume to -14 LUFS via Wave Hammer. This makes it good to have a single volume of each file-23 LUFS without separate edits later. Loudness Normalize mode appeared in version 15. I used the manual mode with Volume and the batch-converter with Wave Hammer (comp + volume maximizer) for a single volume earlier. If I didn't have version 15, I would immediately buy version 13 - this is a great offer.īut I wouldn't go back from version 15 to version 13. I'm sorry, my mistake, there was a problem with the plugin. The scanner has issues with a few plug-ins. I was very happy to pick it up in a Humble Bundle a few years ago, if only to retire my 32bit plug-ins completely.

64bit SF12 Pro does support 64bit VST2/3 3rd party plug-ins.

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