Sound Forge Pro for the Mac comes with several iZotope plug-ins, including Declicker, Declipper, Denoiser, Ozone Elements 7, and RX Elements. It also works with video files, although it will only import the audio channels for processing. It works with multichannel audio files (up to 32 tracks) in maximum bit rates of 24-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit float at up to 192kHz. Sound Forge Pro is primarily designed as a dedicated audio mastering application, that does precision audio editing. It’s also competing with Adobe Audition (included with a Creative Cloud subscription) and Apple Logic Pro X, which sports a lower cost. Naturally a product like Sound Forge Pro may require some justification for its price tag, since the application competes with great audio tools within most modern NLEs, like Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, or Resolve. The former Mac version that was sold through Apple’s Mac App Store is no longer available. Sound Forge also comes in the Audio Studio version – a lower cost Windows product designed for users who don’t need quite as many features. (Sound Forge Pro 12 is expected to roll out in 2018.) Both are advanced, multichannel audio editors, dedicated to editing, processing, and mastering individual audio files, as opposed to a DAW application, which is designed for mixing.Īlthough Magix’s other products are PC-centric, they’ve done a good job embracing and improving the Mac products.

I recently tested Sound Forge Pro Mac 3, which is the macOS companion to Sound Forge Pro 11 on the Windows side. Sony, in turn, sold off those products to German software developer Magix, where they appear to have found a good home.

Originally part of Sonic Foundry’s software development, the product, along with its siblings Vegas Pro and Acid, migrated to Sony Creative Software. There are plenty of modern tools that deal with audio, but sometimes you need a product with a very narrow focus to do the job without compromise.

Sound forge mac os