MAGIX Sound Forge Audio Studio 17 - Audio Editing Software for Windowsis audio editing software with comprehensive tools and simple workflows for recording, editing, and mastering audio on your Windows computer. Record podcasts and audio books in professional quality, cut audio material fast using the Event tool, and edit your recordings with a full range of professional effects. Digitize old vinyl and analog recordings, and enhance audio files using restoration and mastering tools for a clean, professional sound.

Version 17 adds loudness metering and mono compatibility metering to accompany the recent upgrades for enhanced VST support, the coreFX utility for automated editing operations, and optimized onboarding with interactive tutorials and a streamlined setup process.

A great complement to music production DAWs, the software provides audio engineers, musicians, and producers with an ultrafast workflow and an array of editing tools including iZotope Ozone 10 Elements—perfectly suited for customizing and shaping the sound of music projects, game soundtracks, podcasts, and videos, with just a few steps. 

Sound Forge Audio Studio 64-bit architecture harnesses the full power of your computer. It allows you to record and edit up to 6 channels of crystal-clear audio simultaneously at 32-bit / 384 kHz with low latency. Audio-visualization tools enable you to analyze your sound with music, vocals, and noise, graphically and dynamically displayed on the basis of their audio data.

Record, Edit, Restore, Master Audio    6-Channel Audio Recording and Processing    Ozone 10 Elements, wizardFX Suite    Truncate Silence Option    élastique Pro Time Stretch & Pitch Shift    Audio Recording Up to 32-Bit / 384 kHz    Improved Metering, VST Enhancements    Edit 5.1 Surround Sound Files    Windows 10 and 11 / VST2 and VST3

• Loudness meter: The new Loudness meter displays the loudness of your audio files in a continuous graph in relation to the timeline and as numerical values. Enjoy support for EBU R 128 and ITU-R BS.1770-4 formats thanks to true-peak analysis in dBTP that can be configured using simple presets. All of this is displayed with intuitive color coding to simplify your workflow.
• Mono compatibility meter: Guarantee perfect audio playback using the fast and easy mono compatibility meter. Track compatibility and identify any issues, such as phase cancellations, with vivid, accurate visualizations that align with industry standards. Ensure your mix translates flawlessly in any playback system with the user-friendly mono compatibility meter.
• VST enhancements: Benefit from enhanced support for VST plug-ins. This update increases performance, compatibility, and stability for your music production. Use more of your favorite VST extensions without any loss in performance for an even better and faster workflow.
• coreFX utility: Streamline your editing process with this sleek and modern plug-in that enables essential editing tasks with the ability to automate parameters. Benefit from the massive collection of essential high-quality tools for professional editing.
• Optimized onboarding: Get started quick and easy with a comprehensive multi-language documentation, interactive tutorials and a simplified setup process. Understanding and using the most important features has never been simpler.

• High-resolution recordings: Create crystal-clear recordings up to 384 kHz. Experience extraordinary stability and ultralow latency with excellent sound quality, and produce audio that meets the highest quality standards.
• Record podcasts and audio books: Record your podcasts and produce them in excellent sound quality thanks to the built-in mixing and editing tools. Prepare audiobooks so they are compatible on Audible, iTunes, and many others with ACX Export Wizard.
• Live waveform display and Real-Time Monitoring: Even during recording, the recorded waveform is displayed directly in the program window. If you listen to your recordings with a near-zero latency device, Real-Time Monitoring ensures the lowest possible latency.
• Remote recording: The slim decoupled window gives you maximum ease of use for recording control; place it anywhere in any running application to keep all important recording options in view. This way, you have the texts of your audiobook or podcast in the appropriate position and can start recording right away.

• Cut, move, and edit audio files with professional effects and 64-bit power on up to 6 channels.
• Truncate Silence and ACX Export Wizard: These are ideal tools for podcast and audiobook recordings. Automatically detect and remove silent passages. Truncate Silence automatically measures the noise level of your recording and removes major speaker pauses in seconds. Export audio files for streaming services like Audible or iTunes. ACX Check helps you prepare files optimally for export.
• Adjust audio events using the Event Tool: Use the Event Tool to edit audio events such as cuts as well as their crossfades to remove pops, clicks, and other noise. All editing is done dynamically on the virtual layer. Adjust cuts in the Event Tool, even after they've already been set.
• Edit directly in the Windows context menu: Trigger various actions via the Windows context menu with just one right-click on a file or folder - without having to open the program. With the immediate task execution from the system, you accelerate your work process considerably and get to the desired result even faster.
• Instant Action: With Instant Action, you can call up frequently used functions with just one click, in addition, it is possible to define your own actions. All important tools and functions are clearly displayed as easily recognizable icons in a window. Divided into clear categories such as Effects, Mastering, Import and Export, Instant Action helps you save valuable time.
• 5.1 Surround sound editing: Sound Forge Audio Studio gives you extensive options for editing surround sound in 5.1 format, a classic standard for decades. Prepare your audio mix for a setup with center, front, and rear speakers, plus a subwoofer, and let the sound envelop you completely.
• Optimal use of your computing power: Sound Forge makes the most of your processor's power, giving you more processing power for large projects with numerous effects. Maintain compatibility with older projects and seamlessly incorporate them into your new one.

• Find the right effect for tasks from fast mixing to the final touches. WizardFX Suite delivers a range of dynamic, coloration, and modulation effects based on a revolutionary operational concept. Simply choose a preset and adjust the effect intensity level with a single controller.
• Dynamics: One side exhibits the wild ups and downs of danceable sounds, while the other holds pulsing levels in check and smoothes dynamic waves with a steady hand. WizardFX Dynamics are both yin and yang, working with naturally impulsive spikes and equalizing different volume levels in accordance with the required sound.
• Coloration: More character, more color, more punch—wizardFX has it all. Use Tape Machine for analog warmth or fat overdrive. Bitcrusher offers authentic lo-fi sounds, and Tube Distortion ranges from light oversaturation or punchy distortion. Tape Machine and Tube Distortion, as well as Compressor and Gate are equipped with auto input gain. This warns if the input is too low or too high and sets optimum levels with just a single click.
• Modulation: The courage to change is always rewarded; modulated sounds ensure a strong impression and attract attention. Accentuate your mix with delays, lush chorus effects, and striking flanger effects nicely wrapped in reverb and rounded out for the perfect mix. WizardFX modulation effects deliver results faster than you think, and more impressive than you expected.

• Time stretching and pitch shifting: The zplane élastique Pro time-stretch and pitch-shift plug-ins deliver time stretching and pitch shifting without artifacts. Based on modern psychoacoustic models and signal processing theory, zplane élastique delivers stable timing, cross-channel phase coherence, and sample-accurate stretching without degradation in sound quality.
• iZotope Ozone 10 Elements contains a wide range of presets and macro controls for producing sophisticated mastering results with ease. The Mastering Wizard analyzes your mix, creates an audio profile, and suggests default values, signal chains, and processor settings to help you master your tracks for a variety of audio-delivery platforms—from radio play to streaming.
• The Audio Restoration tool identifies and automatically removes clicks as well as noise from air-conditioning units, electrical devices, or amps.
• Convert your favorite records and cassettes to digital, and enhance their audio quality with powerful recording and restoration tools for vinyl. Remove distracting noise and adjust the volume levels of your recordings.
• The classic Visualization peak meter is now available with a new flat design and customizable skin colors. New drawing response of the V2 Peak Meter ensures that you can always view the volume at a glance.
• The oscilloscope offers new options for visualizing waveforms. Visualize periodic oscillations in audio signal or have effect-chain manipulations display in real time.

• The software enables you to import and export audio files in all standard formats (WAV, AIFF, MP3, MUS, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, ASF, W64, CDA, RAW, and VOX).
• The Open and Append command makes it easy to compile tracks for a CD master. Select one or multiple files and add these automatically to your CD, including track markers.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Can I pug and play the iRig Pro to my iphone X? Or do I need an app to make it all work?

A: The iRig Pro I/O will work great with the iPhone X. An app will be required. We offer free apps which include gear upon the iRig's registration. Check out a list of the included gear with the iRig Pro I/O here: https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigproio/index.php?p=apps

Q: 2. Is this irig pro duo new or used ? can be shipped to Mexico?

A: All items in our inventory would be new, unless clearly stated otherwise on the item's page. And for the most part, no used or refurbished items will come up in a search unless you are specifically looking in our Used Department. You may calculate your actual shipping options/order totals by adding the items you want to a shopping cart. It will then list the shipping options, descriptions, ETA's and fees to your location.

Q: 3. Will the iRig pro work with Android phones too?

A: Yes, the IK Multimedia iRig Pro I/O Audio and MIDI Interface is compatible for use with iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows computers, as well as with Android devices. Just make sure that you use the correct adapters to enable compatibility. For an Android phone with a USB-C connector, you can use the IK Multimedia USB Type-C to Mini-DIN Cable - 23.6" (B&H # IKIPCBUSBCMD).

Q: 4. What does the headphone output hear? Is it the Input before the preamps, the Output after the preamps, or is it used just for listening to a replay?

A: The headphones can either monitor the post mix or with the direct monitor switch engaged, the dry signal.

Q: 5. If I were to run this connected from a mixer to an iPhone for streaming purposes, could I use phantom power from the mixer to power the iRig?

A: The iRig is not able to be powered via Phantom Power at this time. The iRig Pro I/O can however offer Phantom power to a connected Condenser Mic.

Q: 6. The support email for the Pro Software is no longer valid. How do I get the activation code for the prompter software? It should really be given at the time of purchase.

A: Here is a link to the Magicue activation form: https://dracobroadcast.com/magicue-software-activation/

Q: 7. If this irig pro I/o plugs directly into the lightning port, how can I charge my phone? Belkins lightning splitter only supports 24/48 audio. Can still use this with my mini audio jack on my iPhone 6?

A: There's an optional power supply that can run Pro I/O and charge your device at the same time.When you connect this the headphone jack on the iPhone 6 won't work, but there's a headphone jack on the Pro I/O itself you can plug into instead.

Q: 8. The specs say "comes with USB cable." Is that the older USB-A connector, or USB-A useable with the new MacBook Pros?

A: The included cable is a Mini-DIN to USB Type-A cable for connection to Mac/PC.If you would like to use a USB-C adapter, this will work fine. We also offer a Mini-DIN to USB-C cable here. https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/?A=usb-c-to-mini-din-cable

Q: 9. how to download magicue pro software when receiving the shipment?

A: The software is available online; you just need to get a code to activate it.

Q: 10. I already use the irig pre. Recording eats my phone battery quickly. Thus I have it charging while Im using it, with a brick battery. Can I do the same with the duo?

A: You can use the optional PSU to power iRig Pro Duo, but it will not charge your device while in use. Alternatively you can use iRig Powerbridge to charge your device while you use iRig Pro Duo, but the Pro Duo would still need batteries.If you're currently using iRig Pre, you might consider the iRig Pro I/O. This is only one channel, not two like Pro Duo, but it does have an optional PSU that will both power the iRig Pro I/O and charge your iOS device at the same time.