The Instant Action Window gives you immediate access to important tools and many common tasks. With several working areas including Actions, Effects, Mastering, Export and Import, this could be a big time saver. There’s also a new contextual menu for many basic editing tasks. Among other things, it includes options for converting and normalizing audio files. This menu lets you launch frequently used actions with one right click – quite convenient. In addition to this, Magix has worked on visualization.

Sound Forge Pro 14 has new meters and a new analyzer. Another interesting new addition is WaveColor, which improves orientation in projects by colour-coding the sonic characteristics and pitch in the waveform view. This makes it easy to spot undesirable frequencies. Furthermore, the spectroscope offers precise frequency analysis using FFT technology. No update should come without performance tweaks, and Magix has taken the opportunity to optimize the VST engine, which was newly introduced in Sound Forge 13. The developer claims that this improves the stability and speed while scanning and using VST plug-ins. Sound Forge Pro 14 offers ARA2 support and comes with iZotope Ozone Elements and RX 7 Elements. On top of what’s included with Sound Forge Pro 14, the Suite version adds 11 coreFX plug-ins. Buyers of the Suite version also receive Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 6 and the upgrade to SpectraLayers 7, once it becomes available.

Celemony Melodyne Essential is also included, as are the Analogue Modelling and Vintage Effects suites with four mastering and three vintage effect plug-ins, respectively. The VariVerb II and Vandal plug-ins round off Sound Forge Pro 14 Suite.

The upgrade from a previous version costs USD/EUR 199.

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