Review: Sony’s Sound Forge Audio Station 10 is powerful and versatile - stopsalave1946

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Facile sound editing
Supports VSTfx
Large-minded file type support

Cons

No multi-channel support

Our Verdict

An old-school port belies this program's power and versatility. It's noncomprehensive to stereo, though; no 5.1 or 7.1 surround well-grounded.

Sony's Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 ($70, currently on promotion for $49, free feature-specific demo) may not be the most modern-looking for of applications, but IT's an audio editor with impeccable 2-channel chops. There's no support for 2.1, 5.1 Beaver State 7.1 multi-channel audio, nor piping to the Celemony Melodyne editor. Simply IT supports roughly every some other audio editing feature, including the vast majority of VST effects chaw-ins.

Trim and simple, Sound Pull up Audio Send's interface is easy to use and puts all options within easy reach.

SFAS imports a wide variety of stereo files including wave files up to 32-bits/192kHz, Windows and Orchard apple tree lossless, FLAC, and Ogg. The only file character it wouldn't load was my Anthropoid file. Editing is highly quick and facile, and there are numerous time-economy presets for diminuendos, high-energy swells, flanging, normalizing, etc. You may also save your have presets. The program includes Sony's Audio Enhancer, a very adequate multi-purpose mastering tool.

Nonpareil disappointment with SFAS was with its own interference reduction. I had winner only with tiny amounts of play down racket. It's simply non in the same league as BIAS SoundSoap 2 or Izotope RX 2. The Izotope plug-in this comes with the program is practically fitter merely it's non included in the 15-day trial, which is other fully functional. The unusual effects and processing are top-notch.

Complete Devise Sound Studio is very capable. However, atomic number 3 with every bear-to-play audio editor, I have to first point you to the slightly audible, simply competent and free, Audaciousness.

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Jon is a Juilliard-house-trained musician, erstwhile x86/6800 programmer, and long-clock time (late 70s) computer enthusiast living in the San Francisco bay region. jjacobi@pcworld.com