MAGIX SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite with SpectraLayers Pro 8 (Download)

• Recording: Professional recording on up to 32 channels and resolutions up to 64-bit/768 kHz.
• Audio Editing: SOUND FORGE Pro is one of the most powerful audio editors ever developed.
• Mastering: Advanced DSP algorithms for state-of-the-art sound quality.

NEW! Features include:

Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8
SpectraLayers Pro 8 is the most advanced audio spectrum editor on the market and transforms sound into a unique visual world of multidimensional audio data. With this visual approach and the extensive toolkit in SpectraLayers, it's easy to rearrange, extract and optimize sounds in ways never before imagined. The new version 8 is the ideal complement to the SOUND FORGE Pro 16 Suite with its improved tools and workflows. It allows automatic, artificial intelligence-driven, processes across multiple layers to provide the best possible results.

• Unmixing Layers: With new tools driven by AI technology, audio tracks can now be unmixed in Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8. This means that music can be split and isolated into individual layers. Extract vocals, piano, bass, drums and other instruments from stems, or separate sound, noise and transient layers. Use the new unmixing function as a creative tool for remixing new songs.
• Integration of External DAWs: Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 can seamlessly access editing effects from other audio applications, meaning it can be used with a selected audio file right away. All edits you make are synchronized too.
• Advanced Selection System: Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 offers incomparable precision when it comes to selecting sections of the audio spectrum. Create user-defined 2D fade masks at the edge of a selection, model fades on a visual basis and view all resulting changes in amplitude in realtime.
• Apply VST 3 Effects: The latest VST 3 plug-in support now enables you to apply additional VST 3 plug-ins to individual layers, as well as in standalone or ARA mode. Apply interesting VST 3 effects on the spectral layer and discover entirely new options for creative editing.

What Can You Do with Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro?

• Mixing with Spectral Casting: Use the frequency spectrum of one layer as a cast or mold for carving an impression directly into the spectrum of a second layer. Spectral Casting/Spectral Molding opens up unexplored new worlds of audio processing possibilities.
• Sound Design with Spectral Molding: Spectral Molding offers an extensive bandwidth of sounds: The technology enables users to transfer spectral data between recordings and create an entirely new and different sound aesthetic. For instance, you can give a guitar recording the acoustic texture of vocals.
• Cleaning with Acoustic Fingerprints: Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 is able to create exact prints of noise interference and then suppress them or remove them completely from the track. This technology offers you absolute precision for achieving crystal-clear audio results.
• ARA2 Plugin: The ARA2 plug-in integrates Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 directly in SOUND FORGE Pro 16. Once set up, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 behaves just like an independent part of the DAW and integrates essential components of the host DAW such as track colors and other elements.

Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
Melodyne essential is the perfect complement to the audio editing functions offered by SOUND FORGE Pro 16 and with its built-in ARA2 and AAX support, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 8 is equally so. Discover the legendary tool for precise audio correction.

• Vintage Effects Suite: Reproduce the naturally full and warm sound of analog tools in an authentic way.
• VariVerb II: Room for new ideas: Create the exact reverb effect you've been looking for.
• Vandal: Vandal is a virtual guitar & bass amplifier with superb effects that lets you easily simulate any kind of guitar effect in a realistic way.

dynmaicEQ
Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts exactly where it will enhance your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate, and shape sounds throughout your project with the maximum precision and level control. The multiple filter options for EQ band configuration enable significantly more precise options when editing, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks (as well as all tracks containing virtual instruments)

Loudness Visualization
The new Loudness visualization 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 which is displayed with intuitive color coding to simplify your workflow.

Optimizied Multi-Channel Workflow
Enjoy significant enhancements to support for multichannel audio files. SOUND FORGE allows you to create, load and save new files with any configuration. 

This provides feedback the selected setup all the time and lets you benefit from the ability to convert and export different formats containing up to 32 channels.

Expanded Plug-In Manager
In the newly redesigned Plug-in manager, all your plug-ins are arranged in clear categories and sorted by manufacturer and type. 

Thanks to the new filter options and the integrated search field, you can access the desired plug-ins quickly and conveniently – simply enter a search, apply the right effect, and mark your favorites for future projects.

New Resampling Engine
Thanks to the newly redesigned internal resampling engine, you can work with any sample rate in your project without prior conversion. 
The program's engine is now faster, supports more formats, and provides better output quality. The customizable engine ensures that you always output the highest quality and achieve maximum results from your media in real time without prior conversion.

Remote Recording
The sleek, floating window provides maximum ease of use for recording control – place it anywhere in any running application & keep all essential recording options at your fingertips. This means you can keep your voiceover texts for audiobooks and podcasts in the desired position and start recording right away.

Recording with 64-Bit Precision
Record audio on up to 32 channels and in 64-bit/768 kHz. Experience a 64-bit audio engine with ultimate stability and lowest latency. Record vocals, instruments or podcasts in crystal-clear quality.

Audio Editing
Discover a massive array of state-of-the-art editing tools that allow you to customize your sound and shape it exactly the way you want.

Restoration & Mastering
Master your audio material with industry-leading DSP algorithms. Use innovative effects to optimize the loudness of your recordings without ever sacrificing transparency. Create red book masters, DDPs and master files optimized for streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal.

Remote Recording
Simply drag the slim remote window to a convenient position next to your audiobook text and begin recording right away. Remote Recording hides the main window, giving you all the essential recording options in one location. This frees up the screen to display your text or sheet music for undisturbed recordings.

Professional Recording Workflow
You can modify up to 32 audio channels and monitor everything within a customizable working environment. Simplified file navigation and a huge range of options for delayed recording refine the program's recording workflow further.

One-Touch Recording
Start recording with a single click while keeping the main program interface and your project area open simultaneously. OTR lets you spare heaps of time and enable you to fully concentrate on recording.

Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
SOUND FORGE Pro 16 supports DSD audio files for the import and export of and recording and mixing in PCM format, DSD format export for mastering Super Audio CDs (SACD), as well as reliable archiving.

Threshold Recording
Set a threshold via the options menu and recording will start automatically from the selected input device. This is an easy way to record yourself without the need for remote controls while you're in the booth.

MIDI Timecode
Enable the MIDI timecode trigger if you want to be able to trigger playback or recording when the timecode of another device is received – this simplifies the input of MIDI notes and controller values.

Timestamp Recording
Configure your recordings so that they automatically start from multiple selected input devices via a timer. The automatic settings will define when the recording ends.

Input Bus Effects
Add plug-in effects to your source signal to create mixes that sound great on headphones. This method integrates your effects chain before recording is started.

Waveform Display
The waveform display makes navigating longer recordings easier and allows you to orient yourself in an audio file.

Precise Audio Editing

• Edit Tool: Use the edit tool to select the audio files that you want to change, position or move. You can edit simple envelope points in the same way.
• Magnify Tool: Use the magnify tool to zoom in on a region. Dragging the mouse pointer over a range enlarges it. If you let go of the mouse button, the area selected for editing will not be lost.
• Pencil Tool: Use the Pencil tool to edit the waveform by drawing on it. For instance, you can zoom in to a problem area and redraw the waveform if noise is present in the audio file.
• Event Tool: Use the event tool to edit several audio events in a single data window. This shows you simpler methods for cleaning edges and transitions and makes creating track for Disc-At-Once CDs easier.
• Envelope Tool: You can add, remove, or adjust envelope points using the envelope tool. It should be used when you want to add points to effect automation envelopes or remove or customize them.

Customizable User Interface
The user interface in SOUND FORGE Pro 16 can be fully configured. Waveform and envelope color, markers and window height can all be modified to suit your preferences - for a more streamlined workflow. Design and save multiple interface layout configurations, whether in single or dual monitor setup.

Instant Action Improvements
The Instant Action window lets you edit and access frequently used functions with just a click. All essential tools and functions are now displayed as easily identifiable icons in an Action window. You now have a clear overview of everything and can access the Workspace Actions, Effects, Mastering, Export & Import Action sections directly – meaning you don't have to search for tools and functions in the menus and saving you a ton of time.

Windows Context Menu Improvements
Convert and normalize your audio files easily and quickly without needing to open SOUND FORGE Pro 16 first, by right-clicking a folder in the Windows context menu. This way, can assign tasks instantly, which accelerates your workflow and lets you achieve the results you need even faster.

Redesigned Docking
With its range of functions for all audio editing and processing tasks, the windows structure can be customized to the exact way you need it. From recording to mastering: Whatever the audio task, the right presets and functions are at hand.

Multichannel Editing
SOUND FORGE Pro 16 can open, edit, convert and save audio files from various sources. All in a multitrack environment and with the ultimate precision.

Expert Multitasking
You can edit a new file while SOUND FORGE Pro 16 edits and renders an additional file in the background – saving you a ton of time.

ACID Loop Creation
Create loops for ACID and edit WAV file properties. This information is embedded in the file and can be modified in ACID at any time.

Channel Converter
Adjust the number of channels in an audio file, swap channels in a stereo file or in a multichannel file, mix the channels to set up panning.

And Much, Much More!

DSP Effects
Use digital signal processor effects to edit audio files in realtime and perform mastering tasks that normally can't be realized on an analog basis. Add more dynamics and room to your sound and get rid of noise from your audio.

coreFX Suite
The coreFX Suite is the ultimate effect bundle with all the essential tools for professional sound design: It includes a rhythm effect for contemporary productions, five plug-ins for precise dynamic control, as well as three modulation effects for creating richness and space. All dynamic plug-ins display the dry and processed waveform in real time.

• coreFX 2-Point Compressor: In contrast to a standard compressor, the coreFX 2-Point Compressor contains two inflection points. This allows you to create different characteristics and offers more freedom when compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.
• coreFX Limiter: The limiter sets the maximum value of the processed audio signal level, which will then not be exceeded. Differences in volume are eliminated, which levels out loud and quiet sections as a result.
• coreFX VolumeFormer: By regularly decreasing and increasing the volume of a track, the VolumeFormer creates a kind of pump effect that's familiar from dance music. This effect contains an AHR envelope and can be fully modified.
• coreFX Expander: With the Expander you can suppress noise and design new sounds: the dynamics of the audio signal are increased to create a more natural sound.
• coreFX Compressor: Use this effect to compress the dynamic range of an audio signal and eliminate volume differences between soft and loud passages.
• coreFX Gate: The gate is used to suppress quiet sections in signal transmission, which removes noise and produces a cleaner, clearer sound.
• coreFX Delay: Create distinctive effects easily with the delay effect. Achieve sounds ranging from clean and precise to warm delays with a character of their own.
• coreFX Chorus: Chorus is the right effect for full, warm sound – whether for more range and fullness for vocals or to create special effects for instruments.
• coreFX Flanger: Create more dynamic audio characteristics with the flanger effect. Classic guitar sounds work just as well as original effects when laid down over your tracks.
• Acoustic Mirror: Recreate the sound of legendary studios, old churches, analog reverb devices and cinematic worlds with a single convolution reverb plug-in – Acoustic Mirror.
• Wave Hammer 2.0 Essential for any audio toolkit: Wave Hammer 2.0 is a combination of a classic compressor and a volume maximizer – in other words, a perfect tool for mastering. Wave Hammer 2.0 enables you to make tracks noticeably louder and offers greater control than peak normalization.

iZotope Ozone 9 Elements
iZotope Ozone 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. Customize the sound depending on the kind of master you want – from radio play to streaming, you can get results easily and in next to no time.

Cleaning Effects:

• DeHisser: The DeHisser allows for white noise – often present in recordings due to microphone, pre-amps or transformers – to be removed evenly from the recording. In contrast to noise reduction, choosing a distortion level isn't necessary.
• DeClicker/DeCrackler: The DeClicker removes any intermittent clicks and pops in audio recordings of old vinyl records. The DeCrackler is designed to eliminate continuous, low noise or crackling from audio files.
• DeClipper: The DeClipper repairs digital and analog clipping artifacts that result when A/D converters are pushed too hard or magnetic tape is over-saturated. This lets you rescue footage that can't be re-recorded, for instance of live concerts and interviews.

iZotope RX 8 Elements
iZotope RX Elements contains a stand-alone audio editor and real-time plug-ins to resolve common recording issues such as clipping, humming, clicks and other unwanted background noise. iZotope RX 8 Elements is an indispensable tool for those who want to create the perfect audio production.

And Much, Much More!