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VST plug-in support, Sound Forge vs. Audition
I’m trying to decide whether to upgrade my Sound Forge software, or to purchase Adobe Audition.
My plan is to edit in Premiere Pro; I understand that Sound Forge can be used as a VST plug-in, and that PP accepts VST plug-ins, but I’d like to know how well the two work in practice, compared to the presumably tight integration of Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition.
Any experience with this issue would be most interesting.
— Bob Cole
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Firstly, Sound Forge is an interleaved (stereo) or mono waveform editor only (a very good one), Audition is 128 tracks, and has exceptional noise reduction, and spectral noise elimination features.. Audition supports VST, and direct X, and you can even create your own music backgrounds (I know this makes it sound toy like, but it’s a very safisticated looping program). A VST plug-in is basically an effect, Sound Forge is an application, so I’m not sure what you mean by SF being a VST plug-in.
Anyway, I have both, and rarely fire up Sound Forge except to use some of it’s effects that I like. As far as an all around audio application to use with PPRO, it’s Audition all the way (in my opinion).Steve D
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I would not call Audition and Premiere “fully integrated” by any means. I’m hoping that in verison 2.0 Adobe will let you do a true multitrack audio edit of your Premiere projects in Audition just by opening up the project or timeline file. That would be full integration…
I used Soundforge for quite a long time, I think version 4 was the first I installed. Nothing too drastic has changed. I’ve used version 8 and it’s basically the same as 7 with a few new features that are kinda cool and the interface was cleaned up a bit.
I’ve really started using Audition a lot more. I’m working on my first full Audition project right now, mostly because I recently learned about the DirectX support and how you can use all of the effects and tools that Soundforge has within Audition – like Wave Hammer. To my knowledge, Audition does not have it’s own version of Wave Hammer and to tell you the truth, that was the only reason I was even using Soundforge any more (at least for finishing or prior to importing into multitrack). Now I just have Soundforge installed and use Audition with all the effects that Soundforge used to give me.
Audition’s single track editor takes some getting used to, but overall I think it’s an awesome program with a lot of power.
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