Sound Forge Audio Studio 9

List Price: $69.95 Discount Price: $31.00

Features:

• Easy-to-use audio editing and production software
• Record, edit, encode, and master audio on a home computer
• Record live instruments, vocals, and more at the touch of a button
• Expertly edit recordings; customize creations with built-in audio effects
• Burn CDs or convert to formats ideal for the Web or portable music players

Customer Reviews:

Hours of Frustration [Posted on 2008-03-18]
I bought this product with the idea that I would be able to do some very simple things with it. What I want to do is hook songs together which belong together but are split up when a computer reads them as seperate and inserts a pause between them--Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and With A Little Help From My Friends, for example. It's a very simple thing, but the frustration I have had with this product is almost beyond belief. 1st, the controls are not subtle enough to allow me to only wipe out that pause when I hook the songs together, so there is a slight hiccup in the editing. It should be better. 2nd, I have to match the tempos of the two tracks--and neither the manual nor the tutorial is of any help whatsoever. You just have to figure it out for yourself! Then the program likes to do all kinds of annoying things like erase the vocals or create an echoing version of the song. Add to this, the controls do not always respond the same way when you use them, and you can spend hours trying to do what should be easy things, until you figure it all out for yourself. Now, sometimes the program will allow you to match the songs with different tempos up, and sometimes it won't. I've discovered that it all depends on whether you catch this program on a good day or not. There does not seem to be any rhyme nor reason to the way it works. Why can't SONY and these other companies test their manuals and tutorials before they send them out to the public? Why can't they get real people who have no practical experience with their products, pay them a few dollars, and ask them to try and do a couple of things just to see if everything makes sense to them? I am not a computer programmer, but I am not entirely unfamiliar with computers and program either. The product itself is OK, but the service is horrible--typical SONY!

TOTAL USELESS JUNK SOFTWARE! [Posted on 2008-04-21]
Before you shell out the $40 dollars, download the demo software first and mess around with it for an hour or two, there's a really good chance this software isn't going to do what you want it to do. If all you need it for is to record old records with a microphone and then burn them on to a CD then this is your product. If your looking for a product that can record vocal tracks while you're listening to separate music tracks buy the Sony Acid Music Studio, for some reason this thing can't do that. If you want to make karaoke track out of your favorite album so that you can practice singing, a key selling feature of this product, you're out of luck. The vocal eraser can't even be accessed in the tool bar it remains gray regardless of what you do. All software makers promising good results with vocal erasing are lying anyway. When studios master songs the vocals are in the mix on both L&R channels so you're not going to be able to seamlessly remove then. Go to the user forum, type in vocal eraser and read about it for your self. Last of all, if you want this thing to tweak vocals you've already recorded, the effects and equalizers are few and limited. I would recommend the Acid Music Studio for your own projects, as for this thing I can't image what purpose it serves.

I didn't like this product [Posted on 2008-06-02]
This product would be great if you already were well versed in audio production, like say college level, but if you are wanting to start voice recording for voice overs this is not your product. It was difficult to understand and use. It did not have the features that would help me.

Great for the beginner [Posted on 2008-06-10]
Has many good features for the money. Great for the beginner or jack of all trades.

Sony Sound Forge 9 Audio System [Posted on 2008-09-13]
I was looking for a simplistic way to digitally record our messages at church in lieu the present cassette system. I tried several trial versions of all the popular audio recording programs that were available on the internet and finally settled on Sony Sound Forge. It does what I wanted it to do and does a very good job at it once it is set up. I will never know the extent of it's capabilities which seem endless but I have used one of it's features to reduce the size of an existing MP3 file so that it was manageable.
One Con that I have is that while you are in the record mode you have to be careful what key you hit on the keyboard. If you accidentially hit the space bar, the recording stops. Hit the enter key it starts playing back what was already recorded.

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