Magix SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 17 Audio Editing Software, Perpetual License, Download

Recording, Audio Editing And Mastering Made Easy
SOUND FORGE Audio Studio provides comprehensive tools and features for editing audio digitally. Record podcasts in professional quality and edit your recordings with a full range of professional effects. Digitize old vinyl and modify audio files using restoration and mastering tools for clean, professional sound. Simple workflows for professional results: Experience SOUND FORGE Audio Studio.

Recording
Professional recordings made easy: Record your vocals, sounds or podcasts in excellent quality with up to 384 kHz.

Audio editing
Edit audio files with just a few clicks - achieve ideal editing results with professional tools.

Restoration & mastering
First-class tools and plug-ins with numerous versatile presets.

What's new in SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 17?

NEW! VST enhancements
The advanced editing options for effect plug-ins let you quickly find your desired audio material and apply changes directly. This gives you the ability to work quite intuitively and, for example, edit the selected time range - even if the plug-in window is already open.

NEW! coreFX Utility
Streamline your editing process with our sleek and modern plug-in that enables essential editing tasks with the ability to automate parameters. Benefit from the massive collection of essential high-quality tools for professional editing.

NEW! Optimized onboarding
Get started quick and easy with a comprehensive multi-language documentation, interactive tutorials and a simplified setup process. Understanding and using the most important features has never been simpler.

The Complete Audio Editing Solution Sound Forge
Audio Studio 17 offers the convenience and ease of use you've come to expect combined with innovative features that offer powerful and fast recording and editing.

NEW! Loudness Meter - Always on top of loudness - with the Loudness Meter
The new Loudness meter 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! Mono compatibility meter - Perfect playback of your audio projects
Guarantee perfect audio playback using the fast and easy mono compatibility meter. Track compatibility and identify any issues, such as phase cancellations, with vivid, accurate visualizations that align with industry standards. Ensure your mix translates flawlessly in any playback system with the user-friendly mono compatibility meter.

VST enhancements - Enhanced support and stability for VST plug-ins
Benefit from enhanced support for VST plug-ins. This update will increase performance, compatibility, and stability for your music production. Use more of your favorite VST extensions without any loss in performance for an even better and faster workflow.

Shape your own unique sound with modernEQ
With the modernEQ equalizer, you can now edit your audio more easily and accurately. You can boost, attenuate, and shape tones and frequency ranges, while working with high precision using the multiple filter options in each EQ band. The pinpoint editing options in modernEQ help you shape your own unique sound for your project.

Enjoy premium reverb sounds at your fingertips with modernReverb
Add significant space and a deep, rich ambience to your sound with modernReverb. Choose the presets freely according to your taste and create a modern reverb effect for more liveliness. Benefit from a simple, clear interface and the best quality for your sound.

Sound Forge Audio Studio 17 Recording, Audio Editing, Restoration And Mastering
The brand-new SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 17 boasts a number of possibilities and applications. Record podcasts in professional quality, cut audio material fast, and edit it with a full range of professional effects. Convert old analog recordings to digital and modify audio files using restoration and mastering tools for ultra-clean sound.

Recording Ready For Any Task
Record singing, voice overs, instruments or podcasts in high quality - SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 17 helps you achieve professional results in no time at all.

High-resolution recordings
Create crystal-clear recordings with up to 384 kHz. Experience highest stability and lowest latency with excellent sound quality and produce audio that meets the highest quality standards.

Record podcasts and audiobooks
Record your podcasts and produce them in excellent sound quality thanks to the built-in mixing and editing tools. Prepare audiobooks compatible for Audible, iTunes and many others with ACX Export Wizard.

Live waveform display & real-time monitoring
Even during recording, the recorded waveform is displayed directly in the program window. If you listen to your recordings with a near-zero latency device, Real Time Monitoring ensures the lowest possible latency.

Remote recording
The slim decoupled window gives you maximum ease of use for recording control - place it anywhere in any running application to keep all important recording options in view. This way, you have the texts of your audiobook or podcast in the appropriate position and can start recording right away.

Audio Editing Flexible, Dynamic and High-Performing
Cut, move, and edit audio files with professional effects and 64-bit power on up to 6 channels.

Truncate Silence and ACX Export Wizard
Ideal for podcast and audiobook recordings: Automatically detect and remove silent passages. Truncate Silence automatically measures the noise level of your recording and removes major speaker pauses in seconds. Export audio files for streaming services like Audible or iTunes. ACX Check helps you prepare files optimally for export.

Adjust audio events using the Event
Tool Use the Event Tool to edit audio events such as cuts as well as their crossfades to remove pops, clicks, and other noise. All editing is done dynamically on the virtual layer. Adjust cuts in the Event Tool - even after they've already been set.

Edit directly in the Windows context menu
Trigger various actions via the Windows context menu with just one right-click on a file or folder - without having to open the program. With the immediate task execution from the system, you accelerate your work process considerably and get to the desired result even faster.

Instant Action
With Instant Action, you can call up frequently used functions with just one click - in addition, it is possible to define your own actions. All important tools and functions are clearly displayed as easily recognizable icons in a window. Divided into clear categories such as Effects, Mastering, Import and Export, Instant Action helps you save valuable time.

5.1 Surround sound editing
SOUND FORGE Audio Studio gives you extensive options for editing surround sound in 5.1 format - a classic and rightly standard for decades. Prepare your audio mix for a setup with center, front, and rear speakers, plus a subwoofer, and let the sound envelop you completely.

Optimal use of your computing power
SOUND FORGE Audio Studio makes the most of your processor's power. More processing power - for large projects with numerous effects. Maintain compatibility with older projects and seamlessly incorporate them into your new one.

wizardFX Suite Professional effects plug-ins
Find the right effect for tasks from fast mixing to the final touches. wizardFX Suite delivers a range of dynamic, coloration and modulation effects based on a revolutionary operational concept. Simply choose a preset and adjust the effect intensity level with a single controller. Simple operation, impressive sound - it's the ultimate combination for advanced creativity.

Dynamics
One side exhibits the wild ups and downs of danceable sounds, while the other holds pulsing levels in check and smoothes dynamic waves with a steady hand. wizardFX Dynamics are both yin and yang, working with naturally impulsive spikes and equalize different volume levels in accordance with the required sound. Experiment with individual parameters as part of coreFX Suite.

wizardFX VolumeFormer
For pads that rise and fall rhythmically and basses that pulsate to the beat of the kick drum, look no further than wizardFX VolumeFormer. Ideal for enabling gating and sidechaining without any complicated routing.

wizardFX Compressor
The wizardFX Compressor is designed to keep the dynamics of your audio in check without losing control. It adjusts loud and quiet passages and adds more punch to rhythm instruments.

wizardFX Limiter
In order to limit excessive level peaks, the wizardFX Limiter cuts off the peaks of an audio signal almost inaudibly and losslessly to help achieve more loudness.