I recently upgraded to the latest version of Sound Forge a couple weeks ago, and I must say overall, it’s great. Especially the extra stuff they throw in, like the mastering tools.
However, over the years I’ve developed a few habits (probably bad) while editing lots and lots of sound data, which Sound Forge 9 doesn’t allow me to do anymore. My biggest beef is that you can’t zoom in/out while dragging/selecting data.
This may not sound like a big deal to some people, but to me… it’s the fastest and most accurate way I’ve always edited data at the highest sample level, and then zoomed out (usually for the beginning and ends of files).
Also some weird issues with the playback wiper snapping (which can be set in the options, and kinda fixes it) and when editing then end of a looped file during playback. Minor issues I’m sure to some people, but to me these quirks well… they make me wanna go back to version 8 because I use these features so often.
If anyone knows of a workarounds for these in Sound Forge 9, or simply has tips on a better way to do this (and fix my bad habit). Leave a comment or contact me by email.
Update: Blech. There are lots of things in SF9 that just simply stink when compared to SF8. So it seems I will still fire up SF8 for most of my daily tasks, and then I load up 9 anytime I need to use the mastering tools or save into a newer format (as it does support a lot more file types and the mp3 compression actually seems better than 8). One of these days I’ll finally get used to Bias Peak and then I can avoid Windows most of the week.
