SONY ANNOUNCES NEW SOUND FORGE™ PRO Mac

SONY ANNOUNCES NEW SOUND FORGE™ PRO

MAC AUDIO RECORDING, EDITING AND MASTERING

SOFTWARE FOR OS® X

Sound Forge Pro Mac 1.0 Software Brings Multichannel Audio Editing to a New Application Designed Exclusively for OS X

Middleton, Wis. - Sept. 7, 2012 - Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring solutions, today released Sound Forge Pro Mac 1.0 software, the newest addition to its line of award-winning audio and video production software products. A multichannel audio recording and editing application, Sound Forge Pro Mac software was developed from the ground up on a clean slate for OS X and features an elegant interface that redefines the audio editing experience. The application ships with a full suite of audio mastering and repair plug-ins, making it a comprehensive solution for audio professionals who work on the Mac platform.

"People who work on audio editing platforms recognize the need for a fresh option in the marketplace, one that's built for OS X as opposed to something that's simply been ported over. In addition, it's no secret that cross-platform professionals have been demanding Sound Forge for the Mac for years,"said Dave Chaimson, vice president of global marketing for Sony Creative Software. "Our response is Sound Forge Pro Mac, a truly contemporary OS X design. Producers will appreciate its simple elegance, uncluttered look and amazing flexibility. The included suite of mastering and repair plug-ins makes this 1.0 edition a value-packed editing powerhouse right out of the box. Sound Forge Pro Mac is our second major OS X application release this year, and we're pleased to now be very actively engaged in application development for the Mac platform."

Sound Forge Pro Mac Software Features:

Focused Editing

• Edit audio on a new user interface designed specifically for OS X
• Access dedicated viewing panels for the ideal workflow experience when recording, monitoring, editing, applying plug-in processing and browsing for content
• Toggle between features to view only those you need to see during a particular editing task
• Engage legacy Sound Forge event-based editing for effortless sequencing of audio on the timeline

High-fidelity recording

• 64-bit /192 kHz maximum resolution
• Record up to 32 simultaneous channels

One-stop audio mastering

• Produce broadcast-ready audio master files
• Make sophisticated processing tasks easier than ever with the new Plug-in Chainer design
• Apply plug-in parameter envelopes for precision mastering
• Use the included Mastering Effects Bundle by iZotope™ -- a suite of six essential audio mastering plug-ins: EQ, Multiband Compressor, Exciter, Imager, Limiter and Reverb

Professional signal and effects processing

• Full range of native processes
• Zplane™ élastique Pro time-stretching and pitch-shifting plug-in
• iZotope 64-bit SRC (sample rate conversion) and MBIT+ dither (bit depth conversion)
• Supports AU and VST plug-ins for both offline and non-destructive processing

Restore and Repair Tools

• An iZotope exclusive for Sound Forge Pro Mac software

• Declicker: automatically identify and remove clicks and pops
• Denoiser: eliminate unwanted noise with noiseprint-based noise reduction
• Declipper: reconstruct peaks damaged by clipping