Sound Forge 7.0

[caja]

Sound Forge 7.0 is out and now SONY own it.As I can see on trial version only some cosmetics changes is made but I'd like to hear more opinions maybe I miss something.
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[RASTABT]

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[ponzan]

Sound Forge 7.0 is out and now SONY own it.As I can see on trial version only some cosmetics changes is made but I'd like to hear more opinions maybe I miss something.
Caja

As a total am I've been using SoundForge a lot latelly to edit music CD's, mp3's, restoring old LP's and other simple wave tasks. Yep, it's true not many has changed with last 2 versions. Anyway, the little newweties are quite welcome if money is not an issue. But at $149.95 just for the upgrade the bitch ain't comming cheap.
In this case I appreciated the new options for 'Clipped peak detection and marking' and 'Undo past save', plus some other "minor" and welcomed improvements. Boy that 10 extra MB on my hard ought to be something else Sony icon

 

[scarecrow]

As soon as Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) resolves potential VST licence issues with Sonic (the current boss for Steinberg patents- Steinberg never objected about VTS(i) licences and such...) I guess it will be both better and cheaper (=0 dollars) than Soundforge.

 

[ponzan]

Audacity might be a great freeware initiative but cannot compare to SoundForge.

Anyway beware that version 7 besides money consumes a lot of CPU resources during playback: for the same file same prog options settings it went from 1% in v.6 to 100% in v.7 (Athlon 1 GHz) humff!!!

it seems there is a bug here with ST7, as many people is complaining the same at SoundForge official forum tread: "CPU Usage SF7 when playing wav" http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=216964&Replies=19&Page=1