Sound Forge Pro 17/18 are incompatible with Universal Audio Plugins???

kent-williams wrote on 10/12/2024, 2:46 PM

I logged a support ticket about this. If you use Universal Audio UAD2 hardware plugins and native plugins in the plugin manager, if you save a plugin manager preset, when you recall that preset, the UAD plugins are reset to their default settings.

The reply was amazing: "Sound Forge Pro 18 does not support the latest version of UAD plugins."

That's pretty wild. I ask Magix about an issue with ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED PLUGIN BRANDS and their answer is "Sorry we don't support those."

They did "offer" to sell me an update to Samplitude, which I found to be a even more WTF answer, for a couple of reasons.

1. We'll gladly take MORE of your money, instead of offering to correct OUR SOFTWARE BUG.
2. If Samplitude can use UAD plugins properly, why can't Sound Forge?

There was one guy I worked with, Craig Dickerson who was incredibly helpful. I'd bet good money he doesn't work for Magix anymore, he doesn't answer emails to his Magix email any more. He had me signed up as a beta tester and I sent a ton of feedback. The next time a new Sound Forge Pro release came around I emailed him and said "why didn't I get asked to test this release?" and he said "oh, they got rid of the beta testing team."

I want someone to explain to me in small words why I should ever buy another Magix product?

Comments

SP. wrote on 10/12/2024, 3:11 PM

@kent-williams This is only a user forum and no Magix staff is active here, so you can only get an opinion from us users.

Sound Forge is basically on life support for a couple of years now because the responsible development team focuses on Vegas. I'm pretty sure, you'll not get any short term improvements. I would guess that not many people use the current versions of Sound Forge, otherwise that would look different.

Samplitude/Sequoia, on the other hand, had a massive improvement in development and bugfixes over the last two years. You currently can get Samplitude Pro X7 from Humble Bundle for $25 and try it out. But be aware, that this version is a year old and out of support so I don't know how well it works with UAD.

The problem with Magix is, that they have too many similar softwares that basically do the same thing, which made their internal development organization inefficient and they burned too much money. So they had to change course and only focus on Music Maker, Samplitude/Sequioa and Vegas. Everything else is now legacy or only gets an incremental update each year.