Sound Forge 4.5 Free Download Full Version

Sound Forge 4.5 Free Download Full Version

Sound Forge is professional sound editing software for Windows. It includes an extensive set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge can be combined with any Windows-compatible sound card to create, record, edit, and refine audio files. Version 4.5 makes it possible to synchronize audio and video with frame accuracy. The update also supports RealAudio and RealVideo, Active Streaming Format (ASF), and Java (AU); includes the Sonic Foundry Batch Converter and Spectrum Analysis plug-ins; and supports other plug-ins based on Microsoft’s DirectX Streaming Services architecture.
Sound Forge appears to be extremely tunable to your personal wishes and needs. The preferences panel (shown below) gives you a total of 13 tabs. Each tab contains a lot of parameters you can set. Can be somewhat confusing in the beginning, but once you get used with the features you can tune Sound Forge completely to your likes. Good. Sound Forge comes with a nice collection of plug-ins standard in the box. All functions, basically needed for professional audio production, are there. 

Example: there are three types of equalizers (parametric, paragraphic and 10-bands) that enable you to "color" your audio anyway you want. As Sound Forge supports some of the most important web audio formats, you could e.g. preproduce your audio to suit the characteristics of web audio best. 

Moreover, Sound Forge comes with important functions. To mention just a few of many: Normalize, DC offset, Reverb, Delay/Echo, Smooth/Enhance. There are many more: too much to mention them all here. And most of them with a nice collection of presets you can use right away to experiment your way through the wonders of digital audio production. 

OK, I'll mention some more: Fade In and Out automatically or graphically, graphic and multiband dynamics, time compression and expand (within certain ranges without any distortion or detuning of the audio), Chorus, Flange.

And for those of you that want to make a serious job of producing audio for websites, there is Resample (from 2 Khz to 96 Khz including most common settings like 11,025, 22,050 and 44,1 as presets). Sound Forge does these sample rate conversions very well, with a minimum of quality loss. Of course, a 44,4 file sound much better then a 8, but the resamples we did to lower resolutions sounded still good and usable. All rates with or without anti-aliasing.

All plug-in sub-windows give you the possibility to preview (part of the) the result of chosen effect and preset (or self defined settings). In the preferences window you can determine how many seconds of preview you would like to have. In the example screenshot of the Reverb effect below, the preview button is in the red circle. If you check the Bypass option, the file without effect is heard. This enables you to make quick comparisons between original sound and processed sound.

Sound Forge 4.5 Free Download Full Version