[Frank Stearns]

Mike Rivers writes:

On 7/10/2016 3:48 AM, Trevor wrote:

Magix has been responsible for a lot of cheap consumer photo, video and
audio software over the last 20 years, so that probably means the end
for Sound Forge and Vegas Professional development.

Magix distributes some inexpensive audio and video production software
as well as pro software like Samplitude and Sequoia. They're a good,
solid company. Vegas complements their existing line nicely, and the
Sound Forge line brings them some features that their other software
products don't have.

I wonder what this acquisition will mean for SF.

At one time (10-12 years ago), SF was a fairly solid program, given the hardware of
the day.

Then Sony got their hands on it and in many ways things began to slip. (Best friend
of one of my clients used to work with the original development company, but
he and key people from the original team eventually left in disgust.)

It continued to slip, to the point where SF9 was a completely buggy joke, barely
able to stay running for more than a few minutes. Well, that's not completely true.
If you just loaded it and did nothing, it would not crash.

I gave up and left it behind, though I still use CD Architect. Was not even aware of
a "pro" (whatever that actually means) version until the Magix announcement.

Anyone use SF9 or later? Was there a point release that made the thing
stable?

Frank
Mobile Audio

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