Statistics is Sound Forge Pro's non-real-time loudness and level analysis tool. It scans the entire active file — or a selected region — and returns integrated LUFS, true peak, loudness range, short-term loudness, momentary loudness, RMS level, minimum and maximum sample values, DC offset indicator, and zero
Acid Pro and Sound Forge now sit under the same Boris FX product family, but they are not competing tools. Acid Pro is a DAW built around loop-based music production, multitrack recording, MIDI, virtual instruments, and arranging a full song or score. Sound Forge is a single-file audio
Sound Forge ships with Samplitude Suite as part of the Boris FX product family, and the most common question from Samplitude users who encounter it for the first time is some version of: why? Samplitude is already a full-featured DAW with audio editing, restoration tools, mastering chain support, and
Vegas Pro and Sound Forge have had a round-trip audio editing workflow since the Sony era — a feature that lets you open any audio event from the Vegas Pro timeline directly in Sound Forge, edit it, save, and have the result appear back in Vegas automatically. Since Boris FX
Sound Forge vs Vegas Pro is confusing because both applications touch audio, but they are not built for the same job. Vegas Pro is a video NLE with strong timeline-based audio tools. Sound Forge is a dedicated single-file audio editor for mastering, restoration, and precision waveform work. Since
Sound Forge sits at a specific point in the music production chain. The current product is sold as Sound Forge 2026 under Boris FX — many producers still search for it as Sound Forge Pro, which was the MAGIX-era branding. Both names refer to the same application; this article uses
Sound Forge Pro and Reaper are both professional audio applications, but they're designed for different jobs. Sound Forge Pro is a single-file audio editor built for destructive editing, mastering, and restoration. Reaper is a full DAW — multitrack recording, MIDI, mixing, routing, and everything else that happens in
Sound Forge Pro has one of the deeper keyboard shortcut systems of any audio editor — partly because so many of its operations are designed to run without breaking playback. The M key drops a marker while audio is playing. J, K, and L scrub at different speeds without stopping. The
WaveColor is a display mode in Sound Forge Pro that adds color coding to the waveform based on the audio's tonal characteristics. Instead of a monochrome waveform showing only amplitude, WaveColor maps pitch and sound characteristics to different colors and saturation levels across the waveform display. The result
Sound Forge Pro records voice-over directly, edits at the sample level, and processes audio with a toolset that covers the full VO chain — from noise reduction and EQ through de-essing, compression, and platform-specific export. Most professional voice-over artists I know who use it choose SF Pro
Master Sound Forge Pro with EQ, Wave Hammer, Ozone Elements, LUFS targets, Statistics checks, dithering, exports, and genre settings properly.
The box of 7-inch singles I mentioned in an earlier article turned into a longer project — 340 records over about eight months, varying condition from near-mint to visibly damaged. Sound Forge Pro was the application I used for all of it: recording, cleaning, splitting into individual tracks, and
Workflows
I've processed podcast episodes in Sound Forge Pro for three years, mostly corporate interviews and solo voice recordings. The workflow that ended up sticking: noise reduction first, EQ to clean up the voice, light compression to even out level variation, limiting and LUFS normalisation to hit the platform
Mastering
The Plug-In Chainer in Sound Forge Pro is where you stack multiple effects in sequence and apply them to audio in a single pass. EQ into compression into limiting, or noise reduction into declicker into normalisation — you set the chain, preview it, and apply it either destructively to the
Comparisons
Both Sound Forge Pro and WaveLab Pro are professional audio editors that handle mastering, restoration, and final delivery. They overlap enough that switching from one to the other means relearning a workflow rather than losing capability. The differences that matter come down to where each tool sits in the process:
Comparisons
Sound Forge Pro and iZotope RX are not really competitors. Sound Forge Pro is an audio editor that includes restoration tools. iZotope RX is a restoration suite that most people use as a plugin inside an audio editor — including Sound Forge Pro. The question isn't which one to
Core Editing
Converting a single file to a different format takes about ten seconds in Sound Forge Pro — File → Save As, pick the format, set the parameters, done. Converting a folder of files without opening them individually takes a couple of minutes using the Batch Converter. Both paths go through the same
Core Editing
Change sample rate in Sound Forge Pro with Resample, iZotope SRC, export settings, and safe downsampling choices.
Audio Restoration
I transferred a box of 7-inch singles last autumn — about 40 records, varying condition, some with visible surface scratches. Sound Forge Pro's DeClicker handled the obvious vinyl click problems on most of them. Four required the manual pencil and Interpolate approach for clicks that sat too close
Audio Restoration
A noise gate in Sound Forge Pro silences audio that falls below a threshold you set. When the signal is loud enough — a voice, an instrument, a transient — the gate opens and lets it through. When the signal drops below the threshold — silence between sentences, the noise floor between notes
Mastering
Sound Forge Pro has three built-in EQ plugins — Graphic, Paragraphic, and Parametric — all under Process → EQ. The Paragraphic EQ is the one worth learning in depth. It combines the visual response curve of a graphic EQ with the full parameter control of a parametric EQ: adjustable frequency, adjustable gain,
Core Editing
I had 47 WAV files that all needed to be converted to MP3 at 320 kbps, normalized to -14 LUFS, and dropped into a delivery folder. Doing that one by one in Sound Forge Pro would have taken the better part of an afternoon. The Batch Converter handled all 47
Audio Restoration
The Spectral Analysis tool in Sound Forge Pro is under View → Spectrum Analysis. It opens a frequency-domain view of whatever audio you have selected — amplitude on the vertical axis, frequency on the horizontal. FFT size, display mode, real-time monitoring, snapshot storage — all of it lives in that window.
Mastering
Mastering in Sound Forge Pro is not a single button. It's a sequence of decisions applied to a stereo file — EQ to correct frequency balance, dynamics processing to control peaks and raise perceived loudness, loudness normalization to hit a delivery target, verification through Statistics, then export. That sequence