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第一個是7.0a的ISO鏡像，第二個是7.0b(Build 301)的安裝程序。

軟件簡介：Sonic Foundrys 的獲獎雙聲道音頻編輯器。Sound Forge 包括全套的音頻處理，工具和效果制作等功能。這是整合性的程序用來處理音頻的編輯、錄制、效果處理以及完成編碼。聯合Sound Forge 需要Windows兼容的聲卡設備進行音頻格式的建立，錄制和編輯文檔。簡單而又熟悉的Windows 界面使音頻編輯變得親而易舉，它內置支持視頻及CD的刻錄並且可以保存至一系列的聲音及視頻的格式，包括 WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, 和MP3等。
非常棒的音效編輯軟件，除了音效編輯軟件就有的功能外，它也可以讓你處理大量的音效轉換的工作，且具備了與Real Player G2結合的功能，能讓你編輯Real Player G2的格式檔，當然你也可以把其它的音效檔也轉換成Real Player G2使用的格式，能夠輕松的完成看似復雜的音效編輯。

Sound Forge是 Sonic Foundry公司開發的一款功能極其強大的專業化數字音頻處理軟件。它能夠非常方便、直觀地實現對音頻文件（wav文件）以及視頻文件（avi文件）中的聲音部分進行各種處理，主要針對Flash用戶而編寫的。FLASH 本身自己不能處理聲音,所以要配合其他音頻軟件來幫助它……
官方（英文）簡介：PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE
Sound Forge software is an award-winning digital audio editor that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. This industry-standard application is the professional's choice for audio editing, audio recording, effects processing, streaming content creation, and more.
Sound Forge 7.0 software continues to build on its decade-long legacy by adding features that make it more powerful than ever to enhance your workflow and productivity. These include: DirectX® plug-in effects automation, automated time-based recording and audio threshold record triggering, VU/PPM meters for RMS playback and record monitoring, enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools, white, pink, and brown noise generators, clipped peak detection and marking, Vinyl Restoration™ plug-in, Media Explorer, Sound Forge project file creation, support for 24fps DV video files and much more. After more than 10 years, Sound Forge 7.0 software remains the standard for professional audio editing and mastering on the PC platform.

"The industry standard is still the industry standard."
- Recording Magazine

Price: $399.96

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The Sound Forge Advantage
Powerful Editing Tools
Cut, paste, mix, crossfade, and delete audio with unparalleled speed and precision. Edit files in real-time at the sample level. Work on one file while processing others in the background. With its intuitive interface and streamlined editing environment, no other software program provides you with the extensive professional capabilities that Sound Forge software does for editing and mastering audio.

Professional Audio Recording
Sound Forge software provides the ultimate set of tools for recording professional audio. Record straight into your computer via your sound card and use the new record timer to begin and end a session at a specific time and date. Start recording when a certain audio level is reached with new threshold record triggering. The prerecord safety buffer ensures that you'll never miss the beginning of a new recording or take.

Powerful Audio Effects
Apply over 40 professional studio effects and processes that include over 200 presets. New automatable effects include Volume, Pan, Delay, Chorus and more. Use the Acoustic Mirror™ plug-in to apply different environments to your audio including concert halls, caves, stairways, outdoors, even process your audio through modern and classic microphones.

Pristine Audio Quality
The Sound Forge application supports full resolution 24-bit/32-bit 192 kHz files for the ultimate in audio fidelity. Capture the subtle overtones and nuances of instruments, vocals and effect changes that 24-bit audio provides. With Sound Forge 7.0 software you can import, save, and even record to this resolution if your hardware supports it.

Extensive File Format Support
Sound Forge software supports multiple file formats in the same workspace without the need for conversion. Open and edit WMA, WMV, WAV, MOV, AVI, PCA AIF, MP3 and many others.

Powerful Video Capabilities
The Sound Forge application has support for multiple video formats, including AVI, WMV, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2*. Synchronize audio and video frame by frame to produce professional multimedia productions. Open and edit 24fps DV files, including footage shot with 24p cameras in its original form without introducing interlaced frames.

* MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 requires purchase of separate plug-in from Sony Pictures Digital.

What you can do with Sound Forge 7.0 Software
Recording
Record instruments, vocals, from your own CDs – just about anything you can hook up to your computer's sound card.

Record audio in 16-bit or 24-bit formats.

Perform automatic recording of audio, radio shows, repetitive events, any time you are not able to record manually.

Start recording whenever a specific audio threshold you set is reached using threshold record triggering.

Eliminate dropouts and missed audio in the start of a recording using prerecord buffering.

Monitor volume levels during recording using new VU/PPM meters.



Editing
Edit, record, process, and encode audio on your PC.

Cut, paste, move, mix, delete, mute, reverse, fade, and cross fade audio.

Edit files nondestructively with extreme speed and accuracy - down to the sample level.

Use the Media Explorer Window to quickly find, preview, and open your audio files.

Analyze and view the fundamental frequencies and overtones that make up your recordings with enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools.

Use the Spectral Graph to monitor input or playback in real-time.

Easily identify sections of clipped areas in your audio using clipped peak detection and marking.

Eliminate clicks and pops from recordings using the included Vinyl Restoration™ plug-in.

Save your editing sessions to new Sound Forge project (.frg) file format with your entire edit history intact.

Drag a file from the Media Explorer onto your workspace, or an open file, and perform easy pasting, crossfades, and mixing.

Drop markers during playback or while editing. Create custom marker names and use them for creating regions and loops.

Use new Pan/Volume envelopes to visually add precise changes in your audio file over time.

View, select, and edit your waveforms down to the sample level and snap to sample selections.

Import and save 24 and 32-bit files - even record high bit audio if your hardware supports this resolution.

Open and work directly on compressed file formats without creating proxy files, saving hard disk space and speeding up the editing process.

Save your workspace and open it at a later session.

Work on one file while Sound Forge software processes another with multitask background rendering.

Customize your toolbars to create the interface you want for quick access to commonly used functions.

Use the Preset Manager back up, transfer, and organize your favorite presets.

Dock floating windows including Regions List, Playlist, Keyboard, Play Meters, and Time Display individually or on top of each other.

Use an unlimited number of undos/redos to restore a file to any previously edited state.

Customize your toolbars to create the interface you want for quick access to commonly used functions.

Create studio-quality audio for broadcast.

Synchronize audio and video, frame by frame, to produce quality results for streaming media productions and multimedia presentations.

Create and edit ACID® loops with the loop-editing. Permanently assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo to ACIDize new loops.

Trigger audio playback using MIDI commands from any MIDI software or hardware device.



Effects and Processing
Choose from over 40 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets, including 18 DirectX® Audio Plug-Ins and over 10 new automatable effects.

Create dramatic fades, delays, and other effects by utilizing new automated FX parameters and envelope control.

Use the Audio Plug-In Chainer to chain multiple plug-ins together and hear the results immediately.

Use pink, white, and brown noise generators to perform audio testing, room acoustic analysis and measurements.

Create simple synthesizer sweeps and FM synthesizer envelope effects.

Apply a full range of audio effects, including: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Envelopes, Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb, and Vibrato.

Use the DirectX Plug-In Manager to customize folders and rename audio plug-in's.

Apply acoustic responses of real environments such as concert halls, caves, and stairways to your audio using the Acoustic Mirror™ plug-in.

Use Wave Hammer® mastering tools to limit the dynamic range of your audio, add punch to recordings, and boost signal levels without clipping.

Audition audio effects before you apply them, make "before and after" comparisons and apply what sounds best.

Use Time Compress/Expand to easily turn 33 seconds of narration into a 30-second spot without altering the pitch.



CD
Extract audio from your own CDs, transfer music to your hard drive, and save your files in MP3, WAV, and WMA formats.

Explore audio files on a CD-ROM and extract your own music by dragging files from the Explorer into the Sound Forge workspace.

Create your own audio CDs. Sound Forge software includes track-at-once CD burning, allowing you to take your audio projects with you.



Video
Edit and view 24fps content shot with 24p cameras in its original form, including content created in Vegas® software.

Apply video save and render options (fast video resizing, source video resampling, and video stretching).

Display precise video frame animation above waveforms.

Import .MOV, WMA, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2* formats.

Preview your creation via external monitor using DV and IEEE 1394 devices.

Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video.

Synchronize audio and video with sub-frame accuracy.

Render files to various video and audio compression formats.

Use the video preview window to monitor video playback in real-time.



Encoding
Save your audio to Windows Media® 9 Series, RealMedia® 9, and QuickTime® 6 formats, including new voice and lossless codecs.

Encode your audio files for the Internet in RealAudio, Windows Media, and MP3 formats. You can even encode video, insert metadata command markers, launch web sites, display captions, and embed URL flips into your audio and video streams.

Render audio to just about any file format including WAV, ASF, RM, MP3, WMA, and AVI, eliminating the need for another program to perform file conversions.



* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.

Specifications
Features
General Editing Features
Powerful audio editing and navigation

8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32 bit/64bit float audio file support

Sample rates from 2 kHz to 192 kHz

Real-time nondestructive audio editing

Intuitive windows interface

Drag-and-drop operations

Media Explorer with automatic file previewing

Sound Forge project files

VU/PPM meters for RMS playback and record monitoring

Waveform volume and pan envelopes

Multiple fade curve types

Undo/Redo histories

Undo past save

Full support for 4 GB and larger files

Enhanced time zoom (24:1 ratio)

Customizable zoom ratios

Automatic left and right mono to stereo merge

MIDI controls

Customizable toolbars

Multiple audio playback options

Mix, paste, and crossfade

Overview window

Audio event locator

Keyboard shortcut commands

System and user-defined function presets

Multiple-level undo and redo

Preset workspaces

Enhanced Preset manager

Crash recovery

Snap to zero Cross

Pencil Mode for drawing wave data

Zoom in, zoom maximum or minimum

Vertical zoom

Voice over mixing with fade-in tuning for overlap

Preview cuts prior to removing data

Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time

Embed URL flips within audio and video stream

Video and AVI file support with frame-accurate audio editing

Embed summary information in files

Mono and stereo sound file support

Save files in the latest multimedia and Internet file formats

Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars



Processes
Auto Trim/Crop

Mute

Channel Converter

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
DirectX plug-in effects automation

Real-time effects previewing

DirectX Plug-in Manager

Modeless audio plug-in Chainer

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



Automatable
Amplitude Modulation

Chorus

Distortion

Flange/Wah-wah

Graphic Dynamics

Multi-Band Dynamics

Reverb

Simple Delay

Smooth/Enhance

Sound Forge® Pan

Sound Forge Volume

Vibrato



Tools
Track at once CD burning

Drag-and-drop CD extraction

Enhanced Spectrum Analysis™ tools

Clipped peak detection and marking

Vinyl Restoration™ plug-in

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

Enhanced Preset Manager

Sampler Tool

Statistics Tool (Max, RMS, DC offset, Zero Crossings)

DTMF/MF Tone Synthesis



Recording
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

Real-time record meters (VU/PPM and standard)

Remote record function



Regions and Playlists
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
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

Enhanced video preferences

Improved compressed file format handling

Option to compensate for non-square pixels in Video preview window

Display exact video frame animation above waveform

.MOV and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2* format import

Windows Media Video 9 format support

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 sub-frame accuracy

Various video and audio compression options



Tools for ACID
Create ACIDized™ loops

Loop-editing toolbar

Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo



* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.

Supported File Formats:
AIF/SND Macintosh® AIFF
AU/SND NeXT/Sun (Java) (PCM, µ-Law)
AVI Microsoft® Video for Windows®
DIG/SD Sound Designer 1
IVC Intervoice (ADPCM, µ-Law, A-Law)
MOV Apple® QuickTime® Movie
MP3 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio)
MPG* MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
OGG Ogg Vorbis
PCA Perfect Clarity Audio™
.QT Apple QuickTime 6
RAW Raw Files (8- and 16-bit data: signed, unsigned, and Motorola and Intel byte ordering)
RM RealNetworks® RealAudio® 9
RM RealNetworks RealVideo® 9
VOX Dialogic VOX (ADPCM)
W64 Sony Pictures Digital Wave 64™
WAV Microsoft Wave®
WMA Microsoft Windows Media® 9 (Audio)
WMV Microsoft Windows Media 9 (Video)
24fps DV video files

* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.

系統要求：
Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
400 MHz 處理器
60 MB 磁盤空間
64 MB 內存 (推薦128 MB)
推薦24-bit color 顯示
Windows兼容聲卡
CD-ROM 驅動器 (為安裝而使用)
支持CD-RW驅動器
Microsoft DirectX® 8 或更高版本
Internet Explorer 5.1 或更高版本

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