Preprocessing the audio provides a quick look at the problems to be removed, or to put it another way, how bad things are The UI gives us a step-by-step approach to loading, processing, mastering and outputting files to various formats (including writing CDs, if anyone remembers those) plus MP3 files or direct uploads to places like Soundcloud or YouTube. Selling for an affordable £79.99 in the UK at the time of writing, it’s intended to clean up audio from slightly dubious quality sources such as LPs and cassettes among many other things. The spectrographic display makes clicks particularly clear but can also be used to remove other unwanted sounds so long as they're reasonably well-isolated in terms of frequency contentĪ variety of associated tools have been available throughout Sound Forge’s existence and the one we’re looking at today is called the Audio Cleaning Lab. The software and its various siblings have always occupied a slightly unusual market position, with the original cut-down Sound Forge LE version (now Sound Forge Audio Studio) aimed at - and priced for - the domestic market, while the full version is a hugely capable audio edit and manipulation tool that sells for about US$400. Most recently, Sony sold it to Magix, a German company which now develops Vegas Pro, Acid Pro and Sound Forge among several other things. The original creators Sonic Foundry sold it in 2003 to Sony Creative Software, which was created specifically for the purpose. Sound Forge has been through three owners. Phil Rhodes takes a look at Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab, an offshoot designed for, you've guessed it, cleaning up your audio. Review: Sound Forge is a piece of software or, perhaps better, a family of software, with a history so long that early versions could be run under Windows 3.1.

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