
And Sound Forge Pro Mac 3 also offers a complete round-trip workflow with SpectraLayers Pro 4 for the best of both waveform editing and spectral editing.Ī new, 64-bit version of Sound Forge Audio Studio (Windows 10) will follow on August 8, 2017. The meters can be positioned in any location and orientation. The new loudness metering features precisely calibrated AES/EBU meters with compliance with standards such as the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) in the US.

It also allows easily switching between time-based or event-based editing modes. Version 3 adds several new features including loudness metering and the iZotope Plug-ins RX Elements and Ozone 7 Elements.Īmong the Sound Forge Pro Mac 3 highlights, users will be glad to know that the new version includes the ability to edit at the sample level, with configurable viewing panels to toggle between multiple open files and open projects. Now with support for 64-Bit float/192kHz/32 channels high-resolution audio, sample-accurate editing, enhanced professional-level filters and processing, and disc-at-once Red Book Standard audio CD authoring, Sound Forge Pro Mac 3 is the perfect tool for audio processing and mastering on macOS. Will Sony drop the price of Sound Forge Pro for the Mac, and make it available in the Mac App Store too? We doubt it, but as they say, only time (or maybe the next teaser video) will tell.Sound Forge Pro Mac 3 marks the beginning. Furthermore, the latter is available in the Mac App Store. Compared that to Apple’s Logic Pro 9 which goes for US$199.99. The current Sound Forge Pro 10 for the PC starts at US$375.95.


Still, it remains to be seen how far Sony has “rethought, reshaped, and recreated” Sound Forge Pro for the Mac.

While details on its features are scarce at the moment (we do notice tools like élastique timestretch, iZotope 64-bit SRC, iZotope MBIT+ dither), it’s apparent that Sony has made the app very Mac-like. The fifth teaser video has now all but confirmed this. The music theme, the choice of fonts, and the occasional closeups of certain aspects of a software in the first video (and subsequent videos) suggest that Sony’s Sound Forge digital audio editing suite is the product in question. Back in June, an undisclosed company set up a new website at to tease about a major product coming to the Mac.
