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Review Summary
Record. Restore. Edit. Enhance. Deliver
Sound Forge Audio Studio 12
The perfect addition to your home studio. SOUND FORGE Audio Studio delivers the goods whether you are recording your band or podcast, digitizing your vinyl collection, creating sound effects for your new video, creating loops for your new tracks or mastering your latest CD. Built on a 64-bit architecture to bring you more editing power, more processing power and a more powerful workflow.
64-Bit architecture
More than 20 professional audio effects including chorus, delay, distortion, reverb and more NEW wave editing techniques: Slice Editing, Soft Cut, Crossfade Editing
Record high-resolution audio at 32-bit/384kHz
Includes Ozone Elements from iZotope
LP and tape digitization, repair and audio conversion
Cutting-edge
Not Only in Audio Editing
Work on the cutting-edge of audio production. Version 12 expands your editing possibilities with these new features
Slice Editing
Enables you to continue to tweak your edit even after you've made your cut.
Soft Cut
Creates automatic, user-adjustable cross-fades with each edit to guarantee smooth transitions between cuts with no pops or clicks.
Audio Cleaning Rebuilt From Scratch So You Can Repair a Scratch
Vinyl restauration
The new Vinyl Recording and Restoration interface makes it easier than ever to digitize your vinyl LPs or tapes and convert them to audio CDs or popular formats such as WAVE, MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
Vocal Tuning
Use the Elastic Audio Editor to tune your vocals to a pitch-perfect performance. Achieve amazing results with complete control. Change the pitch without affecting the length of the recording.
Spectral Cleaning
Perform frequency-based noise removal. Visually identify frequencies of an offending noise such as a chair squeak or cough in your recording, then use the spectral cleaning tool to select and remove the frequencies that make up those sounds.
Pro Audio Effects
Easy To Use
Enhance your audio with more than 20 built-in professional-quality audio effects and filters. Includes Ozone Elements from iZotope.
DeClicker/DeCrackler
Automatically detect and remove clicks and crackle from vinyl recordings or other noisy environments.
DeClipper
When the record level is set too high the audio may clip and cause distortion. Use the DeClipper to restore and recover analog or digital material with clipping artifacts.
DeEsser
Reduce the excessive prominence of sibilant consonants, such as "s", "z" and "sh", in voice recordings.
DeHisser
Easily remove unwanted hiss when digitizing archival tape-based recordings or hiss from a guitar or bass amp. Easily clean up background hiss with pre-sets for hiss behind vocals, cassette tape hiss, analog tape hiss and more.
DeNoiser
DeNoiser reduces unwanted steady-state noise, like that created by air-conditioning, equipment hum and amplifier hiss. Let the DeNoiser automatically find the relevant noise samples and clean your audio material with ease.
Effects
SOUND FORGE Audio Studio includes a set of professional effects to inspire your creativity, including Chorus, Flanger, Delay, Distortion, Amplitude Modulation, Dynamics, EQ, Gate, Limiter, Resonant Filter, Reverb and Stutter.
Ozone Elements from iZotope
The perfect tool to get your mixes ready for radio and streaming. Ozone Elements enables you to achieve full, rich and loud final masters. Professionally designed presets make it simple to achieve results that deliver punch and clarity.
Eyes For Your Ears
Video Sound Optimization
Open nearly all video formats to enhance and repair the audio using the included filters, effects and noise reduction tools. A quality-degrading re-rendering process during export is no longer required, due to Remuxing technology - your picture quality always stays the same.
High-fidelity
High-resolution Recording
Create clear and accurate high-fidelity recordings with resolutions as high as 32-bit/384kHz.
Digitize old recordings
Convert your favorite LP records and tapes to CD or popular file formats such as MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis with the built-in Vinyl Recording and Restoration tools.
Record Podcasts and DJ Sets
Easily create a podcast or DJ set. Whether your source is a microphone or the line out of your turntable rig, the editing tools, filters and effects in SOUND FORGE Audio Studio make it easy to record and produce the perfect performance. Then render it to any of the popular streaming formats to upload and share with the world.
Capture your performance
Plug a microphone into your computer's audio card and capture your performance in high-fidelity with resolution Up to 32-bit/384kHz.
Developed With Passion
To Define The Edge
Throughout the development cycle of the new SOUND FORGE Audio Studio, the mantra of the engineering team has been, "Define the Edge". The goal: To create an audio production application with cutting edge tools and processes to delight our customers.
Loaded with new features, SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 12 provides the perfect working environment to get your work done faster and more efficiently. Specifically designed to make editing, restoration and mastering easier than ever and provide the professional results you demand.
64-Bit Architecture
Now running with 64-bit architecture to bring you more editing power, more processing power and a more powerful workflow. Version 12 is now in perfect alignment with your 64-bit OS.
New Editing Possibilities
The non-destructive editing enables a faster and more flexible editing experience.
Accurate Visualization of Levels, Phase and More
Redesigned meters give you accurate, real-time feedback on audio levels. The new Visualization window presents several views to analyze and track audio output including Peak Meter, Oscilloscope, Phase Oscilloscope, Correlation Meter, Direction Meter, Spectroscope, Spectrogram, Bit Meter and Tuner. Customize and save the layout of the Visualization Window to suit your personal workflow.
Peak Meter
Tracks the loudness to detect or avoid distortion. Also indicates the instantaneous peak level.
Spectroscope
Analyzes the signal by dividing it into to the various frequencies. Phase Oscilloscope The
Phase Oscilloscope
The Phase Oscilloscope measures the phase between two channels.
Direction Meter
The Direction meter indicates the perceived direction and strength of the audio signal.
Tuner
The Tuner is used for tuning an instrument and has presets for various guitars tunings.
Spectrogram
Displays the audio as it plays in a frequency-over-time display.
Correlation Meter
Determines mono compatibility issues.
Oscilloscope
The oscilloscope displays the signal amplitude over the time curve.
Bit Meter
Monitors the digital activity and quality of the audio stream.