On 7/10/2016 11:25 AM, Frank Stearns wrote:
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.
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 have SF 10 on most of my computers and it's fine. I had SF 9 for a
while and don't recall it being buggy, but then I don't do a lot with
it. It's my go-to program for 2-track recording that I don't do with a
hardware recorder, and my editing and (I hate to call it) mastering
program. I'm currently digitizing about a 200 reel archive and using a
computer with SF 8 that I never bothered to update to 10, and while it's
not buggy, it tends to skip on playback if I move the mouse. But then
it's running on a 15 year old Lenovo laptop with the a Pentium Mobile
CPU and 2 GB of RAM, running Windows XP.
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.
"Pro" bundles it with Spectral Layers. I have a copy of the first
version and never got the hang of relating what I see to what I hear.
Too bad, because it would be useful for de-crapping informal recordings
that people want to make records from, and Ozone won't give me a free
copy of their spectral editor program.
I have a feeling, based on absolutely no information, that Magix will
continue to support Sound Forge to the extent of maintaining
documentation and updates on line for the last version or two, but
probably won't make a new version if the the next version of Windows
doesn't run the last version of Sound Forge. They may even come up with
a deal to migrate to their 2-track "pro" editing program, whatever it's
called.
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