SOT: Upgrade to SF11 from SF10 worth doing?

Cliff Etzel wrote on 2/6/2015, 4:33 PM
I'm wondering if the upgrade to Sound Forge 11 is worth doing.

I've worked in Audition for tweaking my audio for the past 4+ years and it's noise removal tool has been stellar for me but I'm wondering if Sound Forge is as capable at clean noise removal as I use it a lot when editing my dual sync audio when preparing my audio for use with PluralEyes in Vegas or Premiere Pro (moving more towards Vegas now).

IN the past, I've not been as happy with the quality of Noise Reduction in Sound Forge as in Audition but the lower system overhead of SCS apps has me gearing towards them as Premiere Pro CS6 is beginning to show it's age - especially in my preparing the move to 4K filmmaking later this year.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

Comments

winrockpost wrote on 2/6/2015, 4:48 PM
pretty sure the noise reduction plug is the same in 11 or 10 or 9....
Spectralis wrote on 2/7/2015, 12:08 AM
I missed the initial upgrade discount for SF10 to SF11 and at the current upgrade price I don't think it's worth the upgrade at £129 (excluding VAT!) I went with iZotope RX4 instead. There have been some amazing deals on this software at various online stores since its release. I bought RX4 for the same price as the SF11 upgrade (including VAT.) Maybe not such a good deal in the US where no VAT added. RX4 is pretty amazing in so many ways - I doubt SF11 offers anything comparable.
Steve_Rhoden wrote on 2/7/2015, 4:10 AM
Until Soundforge becomes 64bit, it is not worth it.
farss wrote on 2/7/2015, 5:08 AM
Spend your money on iZotopes Rx.
Since I bought it I've never used SF.

Bob.
Cliff Etzel wrote on 2/7/2015, 3:33 PM
From what I could see, there really wasn't anything compelling about SF11 but I thought I would inquire. Looks like Izotope will be getting used in SF10.
Spectralis wrote on 2/8/2015, 9:18 AM
Sony & iZotope have fully working demo's so it might be worth trialing them both to see what suits you best. I'm really happy with the standard version of RX4. iZotope seems to include some of the pro stuff from the previous version in each new version of RX standard so I've held off upgrading to the pro version this time.
rraud wrote on 2/8/2015, 10:04 AM
Yes, the noise reduction suite plug-ins (NR-2) is the same and works decent. For din type noise attenuation, an accurate 'noise print' must be captured. For sporadic noises (over dialog), SpectralLayers Pro or RX is the go-to tool. SF-10 &11 also included the iZotope mastering suite, SF-11 includes iZotope Nectar Elements as well. SCS changed the record and plug-in chainer architecture/GUI on SF11 which many folks do not like. The latest two builds of SF-11 are for Win 7-8 only if that's an issue, and earlier SF-11 builds are not unavailable (AFAIK), so if one needs to download a previous build, you're SOL.
By all means, try the demo.