The award-winning Sound Forge® digital audio editor includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge software allows you to edit, record, encode, and master nearly any form of digital audio including WAV, AIFF, MP3, and more. It includes over 40 real-time audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets and much more.
Sound Forge 8 software includes a full version of CD Architect 5.2 software for comprehensive disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning. CD Architect 5.2 software includes CD Text reading and writing, and updated drive support. You can export files directly from Sound Forge to CD Architect software, and Sound Forge 8 regions are automatically imported as CD tracks for fast and efficient CD creation.

- New! VST plug-in effect support
- New! ASIO™ driver support
- New! Application scripting
- New! Batch conversion
- New! Includes CD Architect™ 5.2 software with CD Text support

Some Feature List:
- Recording
- Workflow
- Editing and Effects
- Import and Export
- DirectX® plug-in effects automation
- Automated time-based recording
- Audio threshold record triggering
- Prerecord buffer
- VU/PPM meters for RMS playback and record monitoring
- Media Explorer with automatic file previewing
- Drag-and-drop CD extraction
- Enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools
- Clipped peak detection and marking
- Vinyl Restoration™ plug-in
- White, pink, and brown noise generators
- Simple synthesis sweep
- Waveform volume and pan envelopes
- New fade curves
- Sound Forge project files
- Undo past save
- Automatic file mixing and conversion
- Improved compressed file format handling
- Windows Media® 9 Series import and export
- QuickTime® 6 import and export, RealMedia® 9 export

Notable fixes/changes in version 8.0d:
- Support has been added for opening and rendering ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ files.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when bypassing certain plug-ins using automation envelopes.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when starting the Batch Converter script if the current file had not yet been saved.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when running scripts that use markers in a media file and attempt to close the media file via the script.
- A bug has been fixed that could prevent you from dragging regions from the Regions List window to the workspace or to an empty data window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to freeze when starting playback on some systems.
- Improvements have been made to resolve issues with certain VST effects.
- An issue has been fixed that could cause some VST effects to unexpectedly revert to their default settings.
- A bug has been fixed that caused preset labels in the Mix, Crossfade, and MIDI Trigger dialogs to display incorrect settings.
- A bug has been fixed that prevented arrow keys from drawing straight lines with the Pencil tool when holding the left mouse button.
- A bug has been fixed that caused recording to stop prematurely when recording 88.2 kHz audio.
- A bug has been fixed that prevented you from undoing sample-rate changes made via the status bar.
- A bug has been fixed that caused file lengths to be displayed incorrectly in the Explorer window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause lengths to be displayed incorrectly in the Undo/Redo History window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Insert Silence to display incorrect time values in the Batch Converter.
- A bug has been fixed that caused the Post-roll setting from Preferences > Previews to be ignored.
- Various issues with the Auto Trim/Crop function have been resolved.
- A bug has been fixed that caused the Markers to Regions command to fail if a selection existed in a file.