One is a good steak knife and the other is a scalpel. Sound Forge is where I do delicate or precise work on one small section. Vegas Pro is where I mix it all together.

I am not in Sound Forge everyday the way I am in Vegas Pro, but when it gets detailed I go to Sound Forge.

Thing that are available in Sound Forge but not Vegas Pro include spectrum tools, tone generation, and selective bit conversion. It also isolates the audio from the video for me so that I am concentrating on the audio chunk without the video (totally a personal thing)

1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) None at all, in fact for multichannel its a right PIA compared to Vegas. For multichannel you want busses and routing etc etc and Vegas excels at this once you take the time to get your head around it.

SF is for microsurgery as others have mentioned. Izotopes Rx is way, way better than SF and is now my go to tool.
I do agree that at times it's good not to have the distraction of vision when trying finesse audio. For such times I create an audio only Vegas project.

Bob.

Sound Forge is an audio editor. You can do way much more 'deeper stuff in SF, with far more precision and 'focus'.

The term 'editor' has got a bit fluffy over the years....

geoff

Not to mention things like 'repair' functions and pencil tool !

geoff

That's because people don't get the difference bewteen the terms mulitchannel and multitrack !

geoff

"That's because people don't get the difference bewteen the terms mulitchannel and multitrack !"

I understand the difference but using just Vegas I can convert one to the other. I prefer working with multichannel because I don't have to keep an eye on sync. In Vegas I can assign the channels to tracks.

Maybe I'm showing my ignorance here but that's fine, that's how I've learned :)

Bob.

Hi,

Acctually it's strange that Izotope - which is very close to SCS in terms of preparing tools for supporting video editing - has offered Spectral Repair just now. I'm sure this very specific need (well known for every video editor since very begining of video business : to cope not only with noise but also with phone calls or dog barking) is very easy to notice. From other side : supplier of audio soft as Izotope is, have to use knowledge about frequency sprectrum analysis in almost every product (they could offer Spectral Repair even 10,15 years ago, but they did not - why ? - because people from audio world have been asking : what I have to do with it ?).

It leads to conslusion that world of audio editing and video editing is not jet integrated properly. I treat Izotope RX2 as "must have", but have decided to wait, when problem connected with integration in SVP10 will be solved.

Best regards,

iZotopes Rx has been around for a few years, you missed a good deal, it was recently available for $139.
Video and audio ediiting I doubt will ever be fully integrated, there seems to be some fundamental problems that prevent that from happening.

Bob.

If I had to peel an apple I would pick up a regular knife rather than a Swiss army knife. Vegas has a lot of video baggage you don't need if all you want to do is edit audio.

But it often boils down to what you are familiar with. I dislike Audacity and Gold Wave because they don't feel like CoolEdit, but iZotope Rx and Audition do.

But it often boils down to what you are familiar with. I dislike Audacity and Gold Wave because they don't feel like CoolEdit, but iZotope Rx and Audition do.

Do you think that it may be that Audition IS Cool Edit? Renamed by Adobe after they purchased Syntrillium some years back?

Of course.

I also seem to remember some connection between iZotope and Audition during its gestation. A plugin for Audition, perhaps?

I use SoundForge for tweaking then mastering all audio - music, SFX and narration/dialogue for Vegas. I get cleaner tracks, less noise and it makes for an easier final mix for me.

The izotope Mastering Bundle was included in my purchase of Sound Forge and I use it in the mastering process. Good stuff.