Sound Forge Pro 10 system requirements

• Microsoft^® Windows^® XP (SP2 or later), Windows Vista^® (SP2 or later), or Windows 7
• 1 GHz processor
• 350 MB hard-disk space for program installation

• 512 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation)

• Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning)
• Microsoft DirectX^® 9.0c or later
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Processes

• New! iZotope 64-bit SRC™ (sample rate conversion)
• New! iZotope MBIT+™ Dither (bit-depth conversion)
• Channel converter
• Auto Trim/Crop
• Mute
• Normalize peak or RMS Level
• Stereo Pan/Expand (supports mid-side mixing)
• Graphic, Paragraphic, and Parametric EQ
• DC Offset
• Resample
• Reverse
• Graphic Fade with noise-shaping and dithering
• Smooth/Enhance
• Fade In/Out
• Time Compress/Expand
• Insert Silence
• Volume
• Invert/Flip
• Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit)

Effects

• New! Includes Mastering Effects Bundle 2 powered by iZotope
• New! Zplane élastique Pro timestretch and pitch shift DirectX^® plug-in
• New! Resonant Filter plug-in
• VST plug-in effect support
• DirectX^® plug-in effects automation
• DirectX Plug-in Manager
• Real-time effects previewing
• Modeless audio Plug-In Chainer
• Wet/dry mix and crossfade options
• Acoustic Mirror environment simulator
• Amplitude Modulation
• Chorus
• Distortion
• Delay/Echo (Simple and Multi-Tap)
• Graphic Dynamics
• Multi-Band Dynamics
• Envelope
• Flange/Wah-Wah/Phaser
• Gapper/Snipper
• Noise Gate
• Pitch Bend/Shift
• Reverb
• Vibrato
• Wave Hammer Compressor/Volume Maximizer

Tools

• New! Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
• Noise Reduction 2.0
• Spectrum Analysis™ tool
• Phase and mono-compatibility meters
• Gracenote^® MusicID™ technology
• Includes CD Architect 5.2
• Application scripting
• Script Editor window
• Batch conversion
• Copy statistics to clipboard
• Drag-and-drop CD extraction
• Clipped peak detection and marking
• FM Synthesis with envelope
• White, pink, brown and filtered noise generators
• Simple synthesis sweep
• Auto Region (using beats and measures, or peak detection)
• Crossfade Loop
• Extract Regions
• Find Tool
• Preset Manager
• Sampler Tool
• Statistics Tool (Max, RMS, DC offset, Zero Crossings)
• DTMF/MF Tone Synthesis

Editing/workflow

• New! Event-based editing
• New! Musical instrument file editing and processing (.DLS, .SF2, .GIG)
• New! Metadata editing via new Metadata windows
• New! Customizable window layouts
• New! Floating window docks
• New! Tabbed browsing for maximized data windows
• New! Default fade types in Preferences
• New! Custom selection grid lines
• Multichannel file editing and processing
• Enhanced user interface with color customization
• Audio scrubbing tool
• JKL keyboard commands for scrub
• Customizable keyboard mapping
• Save project paths in rendered media
• Real-time nondestructive editing
• Simple drag-and-drop operations
• Multitask background rendering
• Media Explorer window
• Undo/redo history
• Docking windows

Recording/playback

• New! Performance optimizations (global media cache)
• Multichannel audio recording
• Hardware meters with output gain control
• ASIO driver support
• Automated time-based recording
• Audio threshold record triggering
• Prerecord buffer
• Auto calibration for DC Offset
• Generate SMPTE/MIDI Time Code
• Glitch/gap detection
• Punch in option
• Pre-roll to cursor
• Real-time record/playback meters (VU/PPM and standard)
• Remote record function

Regions and playlists

• Marker and region rulers with snapping functionality
• Regions List and Playlist windows
• Editing of fields
• List sorting
• Nondestructive playlist
• Name markers, loops, regions
• Trigger with sequencers
• Trigger with MIDI event-generating devices
• Trigger with time code-generating devices

Sample editing

• Pop-up MIDI keyboard to test samples
• Sustaining Loop
• Release Loop
• Real-time loop tuning window
• Generate/Receive MIDI Time Code
• SCSI/SMDI or MIDI/SDS sample transfer
• Sustaining Loop, Release Loop

Timing basis

• Absolute Frames
• Measures and Beats
• Samples, Time, Seconds
• SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop
• SMPTE EBU/Film Sync
• Time and Frames

Encoding/video support

• New! Enhanced Broadcast Wave Format (.bwf) support
• Dolby Digital^® AC-3 export
• Multichannel Windows Media format support
• Video saving and render options (fast video resizing, deinterlace, source video resampling, and video stretching)
• Windows Media^® 9 Series import and export
• QuickTime^® 6 import and export, RealMedia^® 9 export
• Support for 24fps DV video files
• Option to compensate for nonsquare pixels in Video Preview window
• Display exact video frame animation above waveform
• .MOV and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 format import
• External monitor support using DV and IEEE 1394 devices
• Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video
• Sound and video synchronization with subframe accuracy
• Various video and audio compression option

Tools for ACID software

• Publish to ACIDplanet.com
• Create loops for ACID software
• Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo

Supported file formats

Opens: AA3*, AAC, AIF, ASF, AU, AVI*, CDA, DIG, DLS, DV, FRG, GIF, GIG, IVC, M2A, M2P, M2T, M4A, M4B, MMV, OGG, MOV, MP1, MP3, MP4, MPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, Sony MXF*, PCA, QT, RAW, SD, SFA, SF*, SND, TIF, VOB, VOX, W64*, WAV*, WMA*, WMV

Saves: AA3*, AC3*, AIF, ATRAC*, AU, AVI*, DIG, DLS, FRG, GIG, IVC, M1A, M1P, M2A, M2P, M2T, MMV, MOV, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPA, MPEG, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, Sony MXF*, OGG, PCA, RAW, RM, SF2, VOX, W64*, WAV*, WMA*, WMV

*Supported multichannel format

General editing

• Support for up to 32-bit, 192 kHz source audio
• CD Text support
• Multiple levels of undo/redo
• CD transport controls
• CD image file rendering
• Reading and extraction of PQ data along with audio tracks
• Complete control over tracks, marker placements, and indices
• Preview multiple tracks or ranges of audio before extraction from a supported CD device
• Multiple file format support without conversion
• Autosave crash recovery
• Undo/redo history list
• Supports MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media^® Audio, and more

CD design and mastering

• Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times
• Over 20 real-time DirectX^® plug-ins
• Set up alternate CD mixes in the same workspace
• Audio scrubbing
• Absolute times for replication
• Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes
• Up to 99 tracks
• Up to 99 subindices per track
• Smart track reordering
• Automatic pause time indication
• Relative times for liner notes
• Timeline event locking
• Adjustable pause times

CD writing

• Burns disc-at-once premaster CDs for professional replication
• USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drive support
• Overburn support of 80 minute and other size CD-Rs
• Buffer underrun protection
• Test burn mode
• PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn
• Burn speed selection
• Copy-inhibit flags
• Pre-emphasis flags
• Audio clipping detection
• International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC)
• Universal Product Codes (UPC)
• Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)