I’ve always found this a bit strange because DAWs have long since offered a virtual editing model where all edits remain visible and editable as you work through the song.Īnd in Audio Studio 12 Magix have brought their virtual editing chops to Sound Forge, note the Pro version is still on 11 and doesn’t have some of these features.

If you make edit A then twenty five other edits to Z – then if you want to adjust edit A – you have to undo 25 other edits to get at it. And with no visible indication of where previous edits have been made and a strictly linear undo model editing can be frustrating. With this approach, if your range edges are not quite right – you can end up in a tweak/listen/undo loop that gets old really quickly. My main beef about some products in the editing and mastering category is the reliance on range based editing as the only way to make edits. Variety is the spice of life, and it’s great to have a variety of tools in our audio toolboxes. Multi track DAWs ready to do heavy lifting in recording and mixing – performance software that majors on real time control, and surgical editing and mastering software that allows us to concentrate all our attention – one file at a time. And it’s in that last category that Sound Forge has built a formidable reputation over many years. Well, new owners Magix have done the latest version of Sound Forge – Audio Studio 12 – proud by adding 64bit operation and some new edit features that lift the performance of Sound Forge into a new realm of sophistication.Īnd it’s the new edit features we will mostly be concerned with here. One problem facing such long established software is what to add in a new version. Sound Forge has been around since 16 bit windows stalked the earth, which is a long time. Alistair McGhee reviews Audio Studio 12, the latest update to this DAW from German-based developer Magix.

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