Sony Sound Forge Pro Mac 2 - Waveform Editor for OS X (Electronic Download)

Generate flawless audio files with the Sony Sound Forge Pro Mac 2. New features include in-depth metering utilities, top-tier vocal processing and the freestanding Convert Batch Processing Automation Tool. Seamless integration with SpectraLayers Pro 2 provides the finishing touch, delivering the ultimate in waveform and spectral editing program integration. Employ Sound Forge Pro Mac in your studio workstream and open smooth new pathways to audio excellence in OS x.

Focused editing
Sound Forge Pro Mac is the second-generation audio editing application designed exclusively for OS x, with expanded editing features incorporated by popular demand. Configurable viewing panels allow you to toggle to any project view you need in seconds-see everything at once or toggle your view to see only the features you want, when you want. Easily navigate the entire interface and work quickly, even on laptops.

Record high-resolution audio
Assigning hardware, metering input signals, arming tracks and recording high-resolution multichannel audio is a simple and fluid process in Sound Forge Pro Mac. Route your inputs, position the Record tool, click Record and you're off.

User interface
Sound Forge Pro Mac features a streamlined user interface that takes full advantage of contemporary OS x functionality.

Editor panels
Maintaining concentration on editing tasks while managing many files at once is a demanding task. Sound Forge Pro Mac features two discrete audio editor panels, each with their own overview bar, file tabs and transport controls. View the panels stacked or side by side and drag tabbed files between them for editing.

Media browser
Locating files is easy in Sound Forge Pro Mac. Navigate in OS x style directly from the Media Browser tool. Find compatible audio files anywhere in your system and audition them by clicking dedicated buttons next to each one. Navigate your entire system without leaving the application.

Meters
Place meters in the location and orientation that suits your style. Sound Forge Pro Mac features new options including CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) compliant metering that helps you follow the new rules while maximizing the dynamic range potential of your audio.

Plug-in chooser
Fast access to available plug-ins, easy previewing and processing and logical preset management are hallmarks of a quality audio-editing platform. Sound Forge Pro Mac features a dedicated panel for offline plug-in processing. Bring it into view with a single click to access plug-ins, plug-in presets and search functionality.

Plug-in chainer
Plug-in chains make sophisticated, nondestructive signal and effects processing operations possible, resulting in finished audio master files ready for duplication or broadcast. Establish a chain, apply and adjust plug-in parameter control envelopes and render out precisely optimized master files.

Signal and effects processing
Enjoy a full range of native processes including volume, fade, flip, mute, normalize and reverse. Enhance and repair audio with iZotope plug-ins including the complete Nectar Elements vocal processing engine. Easily solve time and pitch problems with artifact-free Zplane algorithms. Access your entire plug-in collection for both offline and nondestructive processing.

A one-stop audio mastering solution
Generate perfect master files straight away with Sound Forge Pro Mac. iZotope's Mastering and Repair Suite, the complete iZotope Nectar Elements Vocal Processing plug-in and a host of native tools come standard. Simply drop them into the application's Plug-In Chain tool and process for broadcast-ready audio.

Free Blastwave sound effects
Sound Forge Pro Mac includes 200 free Blastwave FX sound effects. Enjoy next-generation HD sound effects from the producers of the incredible Detroit Chop Shop line of Sony Sound Series: Sound Effects library titles.

Processing power
From native processes to custom code designed by some of the industry's most respected plug-in developers, Sound Forge Pro Mac installs with all the features you need to achieve perfect audio master files, optimized for any resolution.

Normalize
Use the normalize feature to accomplish standard peak level normalization or modify an audio file's dynamics directly using average RMS level normalization-great for matching the apparent loudness of different recordings.

Channel converter
Use the Channel Converter to change the number of channels in an audio file, reverse the channels of a stereo file or intermix the channels of a multichannel file to create panning scenarios.

Event-based editing
Event-based editing allows you to divide a sound file into any number of independent sections that can be arranged and rearranged on the timeline. Event Mode improvements in Sound Forge Pro Mac allow you to convert regions to events, lock event markers, region markers and envelope points to events and automatically ripple successive events forward in time while editing.

Other included processors
Mute, Reverse, Volume and Mix. Mix clipboard contents into a sound file, applying custom crossfades and adjusting both source and destination volume levels along the way.

Zplane Elastique timestretch
Elastique is a time-stretching engine that offers unmatched quality, making stretching artifacts obsolete. Based on state-of-the-art psychoacoustic models and signal-processing theory, the result is stable timing, interchannel phase coherence and sample-accurate stretching. Achieve formant-preserving pitch shifting that avoids the well-known pitfalls that can occur when pitching up or down. Choose from various stretching methods that are tailored to your source audio, including Pro, Soloist and Efficient modes. Monitor and adjust settings while previewing.

Synthesis
Use the simple synthesis plug-in to generate basic waveforms and noise.

Fades
Get precise control over your audio heads and tails with five different fade types.

Invert/Flip
Reverse the phase of your sound files.

Interoperability with SpectraLayers Pro 2
Transfer audio data between Sound Forge Pro Mac and SpectraLayers Pro 2.1 and experience the thrill of working freely across the world's premiere waveform and spectral editing applications. Open a large file in Sound Forge Pro Mac and transfer selections of any size to SpectraLayers Pro 2.1 for fast, precise editing, then bring the result back to the source file in Sound Forge Pro Mac.

Event Mode improvements
Convert regions to events. Lock event markers, region markers and envelope points to events. Automatically ripple successive events forward in time while editing.

CALM-targeted metering
Win the volume war with new metering options available in Sound Forge Pro Mac. CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) compliant metering features help you follow the new rules while maximizing the dynamic range potential of your audio.

FLAC file format support
Generate files in this popular lossless format that features space-saving compression and comprehensive metadata-handling capabilities.

Convert Batch Processing Automation Tool
New for Sound Forge Pro Mac 2, the Convert Batch Processing Automation Tool is a freestanding utility for mass file format conversions, plug-in signal and effects processing treatments and file metadata attachments including art. Simply import your files, create a script and let Convert do the rest. Convert handles repetitive chores in the background while you continue recording and editing audio in the Sound Forge Pro Mac workspace.

Auto Trim/Crop tool
Automatically remove unnecessary silence in a sound file while fading the edges of program segments in and out with user-controlled fade lengths.

Volume plug-in
Modify the volume of a selection using this convenient process dialog.

Customizable toolbar
Cluster and access frequently used functions in a single convenient location.

iZotope Nectar Elements
The included Nectar Elements plug-in makes vocal treatment a snap. Whether you're recording or mixing, get great results quickly by loading one of Nectar's professionally designed Style presets in genres like rock, pop, folk, soul and voiceover & dialogue. From there, easily customize your sound by adjusting dedicated controls like Presence, Drive and Grit. Need to fix pitch problems, perform de-easing or reduce room noise in your recording? Nectar Elements has you covered there as well, offering simple, intelligent controls that let you focus on your sound, not your setup.