• 1.0 Welcome
• 2.0 What’s New
• 3.0 Known Issues
• 4.0 System Requirements
• 5.0 Installation
• 6.0 Sound Forge User Manual
• 7.0 Demos
• 8.0 Contacting Sony Creative Software Inc.

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Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0e

• Fixed a bug that could cause the Wave Hammer and Acoustic Mirror plug-ins to revert to Demo mode.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Cut and Copy toolbar buttons to be unavailable after making a selection.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Loop Tuner window to ignore vertical zooming and panning in the data window.

Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0d

• The Loop Tuner window has been reimplemented an independent tool window.
• Added support for LPEC files imported from Digital Voice Editor software.
• Added support for WAV files up to 4 GB. Select the Allow Wave renders up to 4 GB check box on the General page of the Preferences dialog to enable support.
• Several Mix/Replace improvements have been implemented:
• Envelopes are now drawn when performing drag-and-drop mixes to indicate mix and fade-in and fade-out levels.
• If a selection exists in your destination data window, the selection is now preserved after mixing sound data.
• Markers are now added at the correct positions when you perform mixes with Options > Paste Events turned on.
• The end of the file is now used as a snap point when performing drag-and-drop mixes.
• A new setting has been added to the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog. Select the Auto-crossfade Mix with selection check box if you want the Fade In and Fade Out settings for the Mix tool to pay attention to the destination selection and file length when mixing between files.
• You can now hold Ctrl while dragging in a data window to switch to the Magnify tool temporarily (as in Sound Forge 8.0). Select the Allow Ctrl+drag style zoom in data windows check box on the General tab of the Preferences dialog to enable this behavior.
• Toggling a selection (using the S or \ key) now restores channel selection.
• The Lock Loop/Region Length command is now honored when multiple markers or regions are selected.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause black frames/silence when overwriting an open MPEG file.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause gapping when playing from the Plug-in Chainer and positioning the cursor if Options > Seek Cursor on Playback was not selected.
• When selecting up to a marker that occurs on the last sample of a file, the last sample is now included in the selection.

Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0c

• Fixed a bug that would mix the wrong source when performing drag-and-drop mixing.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent phase and mono-compatibility meters from working when no channel was assigned to the sound card's first ports.
• Fixed a bug that would select the wrong region after a mix operation.
• Fixed a bug that could cause erroneous data to be displayed in the Statistics window.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Ctrl+Shift+D (Set Selection) and Ctrl+G (Go To) from working when a processing dialog was open.

Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0b

• An Update loop bar on Mark In/Out check box has been added to the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog
  - Select this check box if you want want to update the loop bar in a data window when you mark the beginning or end of a selection.
  - When the check box is cleared, the loop bar isn't updated until after you've marked both ends of the selection.
• A Seek Cursor on Playback command has been added to the Options menu. When this command is selected, playback will restart when you position the cursor.
• The keyboard shortcut for saving and recalling views has changed. The new shortcuts are Ctrl+Shift+<number> to save a view and Ctrl+<number> to recall a view.
• You can now press the 0-9 keys (not numeric keypad) to move the cursor to the corresponding marker or select the corresponding region.
• The FLAC file format plug-in has been added to allow you to open and save FLAC files.
• Little-endian AIFF files are now supported.
• Meters now stretch to fit their windows.
• Fixed a bug in Spectrum Analysis when Real Time Monitoring is enabled.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Sound Forge to crash when dragging selection to the desktop when Kjaerhus automated effects exist in the chain.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Crossfade Loop from previewing correctly.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when undoing and repeating a Mix operation.
• Fixed a bug that could corrupt Audio preferences when the Windows Classic Wave Driver was not available.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from changing the sample rate of a new or empty data window.
• The Mix/Replace dialog now preserves the previous preset.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Process > Reverse to insert silence in certain cases.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Mark In/Out from working during playback.
• Fixed a bug that prevented audio plug-ins from inserting tails.
• Automated plug-ins in the Plug-In Chainer window now reflect the cursor position.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Normal Zoom preference to be ignored.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Video Strip to lose frames at different zoom ratios.
• The Lock Length button in the Normalize dialog now updates properly after undo.
• Tempo is now maintained when the ruler format is changed.
• Loop pre-roll is now applied when dragging the start of a selection.
• Playback no longer jumps with Scroll Playback turned off.
• Various improvements for ASIO devices.

Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0a

• A Force loop bar to match selection check box has been added to the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog
  - Select this check box if you want the loop region to always match the current time selection. Clicking to position the cursor in a data window will clear the loop region.
  -Clear the check box if you want to be able to position the cursor without clearing the loop region.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented the Normal Rate control on the scrub control from working correctly.
• Markers are now navigable when copied to a new data window.
• In Windows Vista, VST plug-ins now load properly when User Account Control (UAC) is turned off on a local administrator account.
• Devices are no longer automatically disabled when no channels are assigned to them.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented MIDI triggers from working correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented OGG files from opening properly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused operations on multichannel Windows Media files to fail.
• An error in the documentation has been corrected: Alt+L creates a sample loop without displaying the Edit Sample dialog; Alt+Shift+L creates a sample loop and displays the Edit Sample dialog.
• Several bugs relating to the cut, copy, and paste functions have been fixed.
• Several bugs relating to playback and playback buffering behavior have been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the Statistics tool to report inaccurate RMS levels has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented some scripts from working properly with multichannel audio.
• VST plug-ins that support more than two channels are now allowed. Only selected channels will be processed. If the number of inputs or outputs does not match the number of channels selected, missing inputs will be replaced with silence, and extra outputs will be discarded.

What's new in version 9.0

• Multichannel audio editing and recording.
• Updated Channel Converter for multichannel files.
• Updated Spectrum Analysis for multichannel files.
• Drag-and-drop mixing and pasting between channels.
• Hardware Meters window for monitoring hardware outputs and adjusting preview levels.
• Phase scope and mono-compatibility meter.
• You can now cut, paste, and delete data from individual channels of multichannel files.
• You can now update the cursor position and selection by double-clicking and editing the selection status boxes in data windows.
• Improved process and effects dialogs with selection, wet/dry mix, fade-in/out controls.
• Adjust data window selections/crossfades when process and effects dialogs are visible.
• Enhanced snapping.
• Enhanced color customization via Display Preferences.
• Enhanced keyboard customization.
• Updated marker and region ruler with selection snapping.
• Gracenote® MusicID™ technology for extracted audio from CDs.

• If you click the Custom button after choosing a file format template in the Batch Converter, the template name displayed will not match the selected template. Although the save settings will be correct, Default Template is displayed on the Save Options dialog and the Save tab. If you want to verify the template settings in the Custom Template window, simply choose the template again after closing the Custom Template window, and the correct template name will be displayed.
• 24-bit Windows Media Audio files will always be read as 16-bit files in Windows 2000. This is a limitation of the operating system. You can render 24-bit WMA files, but if you want to read these files as 24-bit audio, copy them to a Windows XP machine.
• If the cursor in the Script Editor window disappears, click outside the Script Editor window, and then return to editing.
• Project5 plug-ins cause an exception at the end of processing. Previewing through these plug-ins with the Loop Playback button selected will mask this exception.
  If you use a plug-in chain that includes plug-ins that produce tails, such as Simple Delay, the tails will not be generated if those plug-ins occur after the Project5 plug-ins. To avoid this, place the Project5 plug-ins at the end of the plug-in chain or add tail-generating effects in separated processing passes.
• Uninstalling Sound Forge 7.0 can cause the Sound Forge Volume and Pan plug-in to become unregistered in Sound Forge 9.0. Please download the Sony Migration Tools from our Web site. Next, run the Register Sony DirectX Audio Plug-Ins migration tool to reregister the plug in (Start > Programs > Sony > Utilities > Migration Tools > Register Sony DirectX Audio Plug-Ins).
• Copy-protected ATRAC audio files may fail to preview correctly or may open as silence.
• The Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codec is not included with the Windows Media Player 11 update. If you've installed Windows Media Player 11, rendering to Windows Media Audio 9 format will produce an error.
  
  Microsoft has released a hotfix to resolve this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932390/en-us
  
• If recording fails when using the Automatic: MIDI Timecode method, try increasing the MIDI timecode start and MIDI timecode end values on the MIDI Timecode Options tab in the Record dialog.
• If you preview a file while using the Antares Kantos 1.0 plug-in, Sound Forge may crash if you change the plug-in presets.
• Using the Sony Track Compressor, Track EQ, or Track Noise Gate on files that have more than six audio channels can cause Sound Forge to crash.
• Saving an .mp4 file to MXF format using the Default Template can cause Sound Forge to crash.
• The LPEC format limits title metadata to 126 Unicode characters and artist metadata to 14 Unicode characters. Metadata that exceeds these limits will be truncated when rendering to LPEC format.

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, XP, or Windows Vista™
• 800 MHz processor
• 256 MB RAM
• 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on application disc)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (included on application disc)
• Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on application disc)

1. Place the Sound Forge application disc in the drive. The setup screen is displayed (if AutoPlay is enabled for your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive).

   If you have disabled the drive's AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD or DVD drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

2. Click Install, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of Sound Forge for your computer.

1. Download the install utility from our Web site.
2. Double-click the file, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of Sound Forge for your computer. 

6.0 Sound Forge User Manual

1. Place the Sound Forge application disc in the drive. AutoPlay launches an installation menu.

   If you have disabled the drive's AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\Extras\Adobe Reader\English\AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD or DVD drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

2. Choose Browse Disc, and then browse to the D:\Extras\Adobe Reader\English\ folder.
3. Double-click the AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe icon and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

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