Sound Forge 11 Released

Rain
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/soundforgepro
 
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Looks like still no 64-bit version.  By itself that's not a big deal.  But nearly all my VSTs are 64-bit and so would not be of use in SF.  Also, fortunately there seem to be no new must-have features, for me anyway, so I just saved myself 200 bucks for an upgrade.  Besides which, 200 bucks to upgrade for the previous version?  I'll be happy to pass that one by.  Try harder, Sony, if you want my money!

I must admit I didn't read through the details. Sound Forge was one of my absolute favorite apps on the PC and I've missed it quite a bit, so I was curious when it finally was ported but the asking price is prohibitive, especially after dabbling w/ DSP Quattro for a while - which does more for less $.

I bought Sound Forge 9 to get CD Architect.

It's "upgrades" like this that lead me to my conclusion in another thread that Sony would totally hose up making Vegas into a DAW. The best parts of Sony audio apps were in place before Sony acquired them .  Considering all but the third party plugins have been around since the mid 90's, my confidence of them innovating anything in that department is very low. You know an upgrade sucks when the highlights include light versions of other software and bragging how well it works with another one of your products.

The latest version of Vegas is 64 bit.  DVD Architect is still 32 bit.  Would be nice if they upgrade the rest of the programs.
 
Jim

I'm holding out for 128 bit.

SuperG
I don't know if the lack of 64 bit is all that much of a hindrance in Sound Forge. 

The only hindrance, for me, is keeping two copies of every plug-in I might use. And now some are no longer available in the x86 format to boot.

It's a great tool being slowly bludgeoned to death by a company that ought to know better!

SuperG you are right up to a point.  That point being that it seems insane for a company to expect us to invest in a product that has hardly changed and forces most of us to duplicate plugins.  I can understand no wanting to rewrite so much code, but Sony is a large enough company to allocate the resources.  They missed a golden opportunity to make this change when they released the Mac version. This surely required a massive look and rewrite of original code.   A little extra to upgrade both versions to 64-bit at that time would have made sense.  Instead they are still content to keep repackaging Sonic Foundry's 15 year plus old dx plugins. 

dubdisciple
SuperG you are right up to a point.  That point being that it seems insane for a company to expect us to invest in a product that has hardly changed and forces most of us to duplicate plugins.  I can understand no wanting to rewrite so much code, but Sony is a large enough company to allocate the resources.  They missed a golden opportunity to make this change when they released the Mac version. This surely required a massive look and rewrite of original code.   A little extra to upgrade both versions to 64-bit at that time would have made sense.  Instead they are still content to keep repackaging Sonic Foundry's 15 year plus old dx plugins. 

You're quite right, though, the point being that a lot of us have 64-bit plug-ins now. As far as the 64-bit rewrite, I'd say they've already amortized a large portion of it in with their Vegas product - you can easily tell that Vegas, Acid, and Sound Forge once had a common code-base just by looking at them.
 
My current beef with Sony is mostly their inclusion of certain dialogs and controls that were obviously built on .NET code vs their standard native-based GUI widgets. (Not to be confused with their *excellent* .NET scripting capability - something I really wish cake had!)
 
Those controls are not nearly as crisp, responsive, or pleasant to look at. In the early days of this issue, some of those changed controls lost functionality and I had to file reports. They stand out like a sore thumb too, because the .Net based control have a completely different look and behavior - the flat look popularized by tablets. Mix and match is not good....
 
Now, Sony's making Mac apps, which is all well and good, but, heck, you would hope they they'd keep their eyes focused on the their flagship.

So, from what I can research, it looks like SF 11 ,au be x64.... at least one BETA tester has confirmed... I haven't DL'ed yet but would love to upgrade..... I skipped the VERSION 10 upgrade since there wasn't much there.
 
Upon further research, it appears that SF11 is NOT x64... bummer.