Hi everybody,
What do you think, how your life would have been, if you have never started working with SOUND FORGE?
Do you think nothing would have changed (just your editing software)?
Or would you, perhabs, not have started going into music at all?
We would love to hear your stories!
If I had not encountered Sound Forge, I'd be using something else. I had eventually tried what was avaible in the early days of digital audio but aside from non-editable F1 and DAT, SF seemed the most logical and intuitive to me, a person with a music recording studio background using reel-to-reel recorders, outboard processors and FX. I did lots of razor blade editing.. I still get the weak kneed even thinking about slicing up a 2" multi-track master.
I had been an audio pro for quite a few years prior to discovering Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 3. At the time I was the production and post production mixer for a small business specializing in religious and other 'save the children' type programming and commercials. Tired of paying big $$ for online editing in Manhattan, the company eventually bought a Mac based 'Video Cube', (it was expensive, over $50k as I recall) which I think was the only real time preview NLE at that time. It had rudimentary audio processing, i.e. volume, pan and EQ, four audio tracks, but no dynamics or other typical studio type processing. Audio fades had to be constructed by cutting the file and inserting a transition. Any additional audio work required re-loading the A/V content from the location Betacam tapes through outboard processors prior to digitizing. One of the employee's acquaintances had SF-3, where I could re-record the audio for more surgical work. However some of SF-3's EQ, dynamics parameters and such had non-standard audio naming. I used it occasionally when I needed to. Sound Forge 4.5 however was a turning point as the naming and other issues had been addressed... still no real-time preview though, which started with SF-5.
Rick Reineke (rraud) Magix Sound Forge forum moderator
Never used it much, I was a looper so Acid was what I went for.
ACID since version 3.0 has been my preferred DAW. Sound Forge has always been a part of that. Its like cereal and milk or coffee and donuts, they just go hand-in-glove together.
I have used other software for tweaking sound, fixing errors and just even basic cut and chop or certain sections but nothing is as easy to use and as powerful (I just got version 12.5 a few days ago). I was using Audacity (freeware) because I like my software simple. Finally I had enough money to buy a good program that is powerful and simple, and that is Sound Forge. Reliable since the days of ACID version 3.0 was out.
I am a SF user since it was created, and if you had asked me this question a couple years ago, I would have given a glowing response. Today, though, after the MAGIX acquisition - and apparent abandonment of the SF Mac product - I am looking forward to my life AFTER I have found a replacement for Sound Forge. For me, SF Mac 3 is a complete disaster, and I have found NO help from MAGIX whatsoever. I would rather have had the entire thing simply folded up and gone away, rather than MAGIX try to keep alive a program they obviously have no interest in supporting. At least I would have been forced to find an alternative a year ago, and already be settled into it.
Bought it used it some over they years but wouldn't purchase it again....