Nearly two years later, Sony have released version 9 of Sound Forge - and guess what's top of the 'new feature' list? Yep, support for surround sound: or, more accurately, comprehensive support for the recording, editing and output of multi-channel audio. Alan's key criticism was the lack of support for surround sound formats.

Alan Tubbs reviewed version 8 back in the June 2005 issue of SOS, and was suitably impressed with the refinements to the user interface and new features such as VST and ASIO support. I'm a big fan of Wavelab 's Audio Montage features, but for straight editing tasks I've always had a personal preference for Sound Forge. And when it comes to sophisticated audio editing - on the PC at least - two applications really dominate: Sony's Sound Forge and Steinberg's Wavelab. However good your DAW is at tweaking and trimming audio files, sophisticated audio editing is not really what a MIDI + Audio sequencer is really about. Sony's Sound Forge is one of the best-known stereo editing packages around, and version 9 brings a new world of multi-channel editing possibilities.

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