sound forge 9?

SF9 is great, esp with sonar. Yes - you can use any vst in SF9.

Holy @#$%!!!

now im wishing i didnt just google "rootkit debacle"!!

well, actually im glad i did, but now its making me want to uninstall all the sony software i own and never purchase from them again!!!

wow, thats so jacked up i cant believe it.

ORIGINAL: bitflipper

Not a SF user here, but I do use the comparable Adobe Audition and originally used it for mastering. To make a long story short, after much experimentation I ended up using SONAR for mastering. The only thing I gave up was Audition's superior dither, but after adding Ozone that was no longer an issue.

I took a look at Sound Forge, and it looked pretty good. But ultimately I decided not to give any money to Sony, as I am still incensed over the rootkit debacle. Ever since then I've maintained a personal boycott of Sony products.

Flipper,

That's old news, but so typically Sony. Let me tell you another story....

Long ago and far away, in a land known as Internet 1, meaning about 15 years ago when clients were coming in the door wanting to know what was this thing called "the World Wide Web", we came upon the first Sony website. On the home page it contained a video message from the president of Sony.

Remember, this was in 1994, when most people were lucky to have a 2400 baud modem, but being a pioneer of the industry, we had an ISDN line that ran at a whopping 128Kbit/sec (for only $400 a month!), when it worked, so we invested the hour or so to download this important message. It was a large file, I can't remember how large.

When we ran it, we discovered that video was, of course, in Japanese. The rootkit deal was a demonstration of the same kind of visionary thinking that can only be made by a room full of over-paid 'yes men'.

These are the same people that brought us betamax, but surprisingly enough, they do get it right once in a while. I still enjoy my Trinitron.

I have SF8, and used it for my last project, I liked it. So upgrade to 9? From 8? Compelling reasons?

I actually bought SF9 and use it, but given the choices available today, I'd proably opt for Audition - my main peeve with SF is that it makes you apply effects destructively (with undo), whereas in Sonar and Audition you can stack them up and apply them at the time of bouncing. The big advantage is that if you need to go back and re-generate your mix, you can just plug the new mix into a mastering project in Sonar or Audition without manually reapplying any of the effects. If there's a way to do the same thing with SF9, I'd love to know about. As far as I'm aware - there isn't (short of scripting).