bwbalint
click on the link above: (or here, as I copied it.)  there will be a 'Purchase Now' link on the top of that page.  Pull out a Credit Card, and away you go.  you may need to register on the Magix page, or there is a tab to 'Purchase/buy as guest.'  You will have an option for download or mail.  There was no additional cost for mail delivery that I saw in the final invoice.  
 
http://www.magix.com/inde...m_campaign=US_48_spsut

ERufian
>what is so great about Sound Forge above and beyond what modern day daws can do?
 
It's not a DAW it's an audio editor. You can easily do low-level editing of one track, e.g., smoothing out single peaks in a waveform that was clipped, or cutting exactly at a zero-crossing.
 
It also includes very effective processing and effects, like noise reduction based on a captured noise print, volume maximization (called "wave hammer", I particularly like it for processing spoken word audio files), convolution reverb and time stretching. Effects can be previewed in real time before applying them (instead of having to spend time on duplicating the track and applying the effect before I can listen to the results).
 
It used to include CD Architect for controlling every detail of producing an audio CD. It also has batch processing of files (very useful e.g., if you have multiple files where you'd like to apply an Fx chain and then convert to a different format)
 
For me, whenever I found a low-level operation hard to do in a DAW, I just exported the track, tweaked it in SF, and re-imported it into the DAW
 
(these are just the qualities in SF that I've liked for years, others probably see different advantages in it).
 
I already purchased and installed this, I can now answer my own earlier question about the dongle: It applies only to Samplitude and it is not required. Saving the license to a Wibu dongle is offered as an optional alternative instead of authorizing the machine (note that iLok or eLicenser won't work, only Wibu)

jpetersen

bwbalint
click on the link above: (or here, as I copied it.)  there will be a 'Purchase Now' link on the top of that page.  Pull out a Credit Card, and away you go.  you may need to register on the Magix page, or there is a tab to 'Purchase/buy as guest.'  You will have an option for download or mail.  There was no additional cost for mail delivery that I saw in the final invoice.  
 
http://www.magix.com/inde...m_campaign=US_48_spsut

I see a green Buy Now button at the bottom of the page.
I get as far as the page with the Register now and Order as guest buttons, but neither do anything.
Probably browser specific stuff. Bummer.

subtlearts
I used to use Sound Forge all the time but don't seem to need it as much these days. Haven't updated since Sony sold the product line to Magix, but that's nothing against the new company, I just haven't found the new features compelling enough to justify the expense. It's definitely not the prettiest of apps but useful and rock solid for what it does. I've used the batch processing hundreds of times to save many, many hours of annoying low level work. Automation is a beautiful thing sometimes!

Spectral Layers is certainly intriguing! Might try the demo of that if there is one. Anyone have any thoughts about it versus iZotope's RX? I have the entry level version of that which I got for a song, plus the plugin pack which came with MPB2 and is excellent. So I'm not sure if Layers brings me much that I can't do already...

I'm already demoing Samplitude and it's certainly impressively complete. I don't love the interface but I could probably get used to it. I will say that it seems quite inefficient wrt CPU so far - at least using my native E-Mu ASIO driver. I fully admit I don't have up to the minute hardware here, it's an old machine and an old interface, but other things (Sonar, Reason, S1, Reaper, Mixbus) run quite happily on it and give me reasonable performance. With Samplitude I had to switch to Asio4all to do basically anything at all and even then it seems to get overwhelmed pretty easily. Not a good sign, but I will experiment a bit more and see if it can be solved, as otherwise there's a lot to like.

I wish the sale went a bit longer too, I hate making decisions under the gun and my coffers are not exactly overflowing just now, so the month Presonus gave us to check things out makes that a bit easier, which may yet win them a sale here... But, a crazy flash sale is a crazy flash sale, who am I to tell anyone how to run a business?

ERufian
>what is so great about Sound Forge above and beyond what modern day daws can do?
 
It's not a DAW it's an audio editor. You can easily do low-level editing of one track, e.g., smoothing out single peaks in a waveform that was clipped, or cutting exactly at a zero-crossing.
 
It used to include CD Architect for controlling every detail of producing an audio CD. It also has batch processing of files (very useful e.g., if you have multiple files where you'd like to apply an Fx chain and then convert to a different format)
 
For me, whenever I found a low-level operation hard to do in a DAW, I just exported the track, tweaked it in SF, and re-imported it into the DAW

subtlearts

ooblecaboodle
You shouldn't have to leave your DAW application to do things like this.

Agreed. A DAW should, ideally, do anything and everything I could possibly want to do with audio, thus leaving the app to do something with an audio file should ideally never be necessary. But we don't live in an ideal world so it's nice to have SF there running backup.

synkrotron
 
Still, I got my upgrade to SF11 at a reasonable price and therefore a shorter jump so SF12 pro, assuming they ever release it.

scook

synkrotron
 
Still, I got my upgrade to SF11 at a reasonable price and therefore a shorter jump so SF12 pro, assuming they ever release it.

You also picked up a decent spectral editor too.