Sound Forge Pro 17 Suite, Electronic Download

Audio Editing Solution for Professionals

SOUND FORGE Pro has been the creative audio editing tool of choice for over 30 years. Its extensive range of professional features make it the go-to for many producers and sound engineers worldwide. The new workflow improvements let you effortlessly record, edit, restore and master.

SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite is here. This professional software package for recording, editing and processing high-quality audio files includes a range of powerful plug-ins like the brand-new Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 and Melodyne essential and sets a new standard in the field of audio.

The suite includes everything from SOUND FORGE Pro 16 plus:

• NEW! dynamicEQ
• wizardFX Modern Reverb
• Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8
• Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
• essentialFX Suite (11 high-quality effect plug-ins)
• Analogue Modelling Suite (4 mastering plug-ins)
• Vintage Effects Suite (3 vintage effects)
• VariVerb II (versatile reverb plug-in) Vandal (virtual guitar & bass amps)

NEW IN SOUND FORGE PRO 16

Your creativity has top priority in the new SOUND FORGE Pro 16 – MAGIX has developed a new dynamic workflow to help you get the most out of your productions.

Experience brand-new features like dynamicEQ, loudness visualization, and an improved multichannel workflow. Enjoy an expanded Plug-in manager and the redesigned resampling engine. Record, edit & master more efficiently than ever before with SOUND FORGE Pro 16.

NEW! dynamicEQ

Easily shape your own, completely unique sound with dynamicEQ

Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts exactly where it will enhance your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate, and shape sounds throughout your project with the maximum precision and level control. The multiple filter options for EQ band configuration enable significantly more precise options when editing, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks (as well as all tracks containing virtual instruments). Exclusively in the Suite.

NEW! New Loudness visualization

Achieve improved workflows using Loudness visualization

The new Loudness visualization displays the loudness of your audio files in a continuous graph in relation to the timeline and as numerical values. 

Enjoy support for EBU R 128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4 formats thanks to true-peak analysis in dbTP that can be configured using simple presets, all of which is displayed with intuitive color coding to simplify your workflow.

NEW! Optimized multichannel workflow

Featuring improved support for multichannel audio files

Enjoy significant enhancements to support for multichannel audio files. SOUND FORGE allows you to create, load and save new files with any configuration. 

This provides feedback the selected setup all the time and lets you benefit from the ability to convert and export different formats containing up to 32 channels.

NEW! Expanded Plug-in manager

Enhanced organization thanks to the expanded Plug-in manager

In the newly redesigned Plug-in manager, all your plug-ins are arranged in clear categories and sorted by manufacturer and type. 

Thanks to the new filter options and the integrated search field, you can access the desired plug-ins quickly and conveniently – simply enter a search, apply the right effect, and mark your favorites for future projects.

NEW! New resampling engine

Achieve the highest quality with the best resampling engine

Thanks to the newly redesigned internal resampling engine, you can work with any sample rate in your project without prior conversion. 
The program’s engine is now faster, supports more formats, and provides better output quality. The customizable engine ensures that you always output the highest quality and achieve maximum results from your media in real time without prior conversion.

Remote Recording

Keep better track of the recording process with the remote recording

The sleek, floating window provides maximum ease of use for recording control – place it anywhere in any running application & keep all essential recording options at your fingertips. This means you can keep your voiceover texts for audiobooks and podcasts in the desired position and start recording right away.

STEINBERG SPECTRALAYERS PRO

SpectraLayers Pro 8 is the most advanced audio spectrum editor on the market and transforms sound into a unique visual world of multidimensional audio data.

With this visual approach and the extensive toolkit in SpectraLayers, it’s easy to rearrange, extract and optimize sounds in ways never before imagined. The new version 8 is the ideal complement to the SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite with its improved tools and workflows. It allows automatic, artificial intelligence-driven, processes across multiple layers to provide the best possible results.

Unmixing Layers

With new tools driven by AI technology, audio tracks can now be unmixed in Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8. This means that music can be split and isolated into individual layers. Extract vocals, piano, bass, drums and other instruments from stems, or separate sound, noise and transient layers. Use the new unmixing function as a creative tool for remixing new songs.

Integration of external DAWs

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 can seamlessly access editing effects from other audio applications, meaning it can be used with a selected audio file right away. All edits you make are synchronized too.

Advanced selection system

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 offers incomparable precision when it comes to selecting sections of the audio spectrum. Create user-defined 2D fade masks at the edge of a selection, model fades on a visual basis and view all resulting changes in amplitude in realtime.

Apply VST 3 Effects

The latest VST 3 plug-in support now enables you to apply additional VST 3 plug-ins to individual layers, as well as in standalone or ARA mode. Apply interesting VST 3 effects on the spectral layer and discover entirely new options for creative editing.

What you can do with Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro

Mixing with Spectral Casting

Use the frequency spectrum of one layer as a cast or mold for carving an impression directly into the spectrum of a second layer. Spectral Casting/Spectral Molding opens up unexplored new worlds of audio processing possibilities.

Sound design with Spectral Molding 

Spectral Molding offers an extensive bandwidth of sounds: The technology enables users to transfer spectral data between recordings and create an entirely new and different sound aesthetic. For instance, you can give a guitar recording the acoustic texture of vocals.

Cleaning with acoustic fingerprints

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 6 is able to create exact prints of noise interference and then suppress them or remove them completely from the track. This technology offers you absolute precision for achieving crystal-clear audio results.

ARA2 Plug-in

The ARA2 plug-in integrates Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 directly in SOUND FORGE Pro 16. Once set up, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 behaves just like an independent part of the DAW and integrates essential components of the host DAW such as track colors and other elements.

CELEMONY MELODYNE ESSENTIAL & MORE

Exclusive to SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite

Celemony Melodyne essential

Melodyne essential is the perfect complement to the audio editing functions offered by SOUND FORGE Pro 16 and with its built-in ARA2 and AAX support, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 is equally so. Discover the legendary tool for precise audio correction.

Vintage Effects Suite

Reproduce the naturally full and warm sound of analog tools in an authentic way.

• ECOX
  Ecox is a plug-in that emulates realistic tape echo sounds. You can reproduce the sound here in an authentic way that sounds as if different tape speeds were used to change the delay – with tracking variations and loss of high frequencies during tape feedback.
• FILTOX
  This filter has been developed to control frequency resonance for a modulation source. This enables you to create a characteristically analog sound and internal distortion. Cut-off frequency and resonance work together here to create synthesizer sweeps and creative drum loop distortion that sound anything but digital.
• CORVEX
  Corvex produces a refined sound tapestry of variations between analog chorus and flanger effects that goes beyond standard concepts. Give your instruments astounding acoustic depth, make them sound much fuller, or create new, multi-layered textures.

VariVerb II

Room for new ideas: Create the exact reverb effect you’ve been looking for.

• Sound design for drums, vocals and guitars
  VariVerb II offers more depth and more texture for your audio. The huge range of presets for drums, vocals and guitars in this plug-in are based on a variety of algorithms and can be used not just for making improvements, but as the starting point for complex sound design.
• Precisely calculated reflection pattern
  Use VariVerb II to create reverb based on complex reflection pattern and various software models rather than on the basis of impulse responses. Create various effects with adjustable parameters such as room, plate, spring and non-linear reverb, all based on algorithmic calculations.

Vandal

Vandal is a virtual guitar & bass amplifier with superb effects that lets you easily simulate any kind of guitar effect in a realistic way.