• SOUND FORGE

  31 answers, most recent on 4/17/2026

  RE: Sound Forge alternatives
  I’ve never used a program with an interface as clear and smooth as Sound Forge (same with Vegas), but their frequent VST plugin bugs—essential for audio work—plus High DPI issues (still in 2025!) made me switch reluctantly a long time ago. For
• SOUND FORGE

  15 answers, most recent on 5/8/2026

  RE: Unable to Activate SF18 Pro after a reformat of my computer
  @px41 I had the same problem. Magix closed my tickets automatically over a period of three months until I got lucky and @Tom_SP (which sometimes writes here in the forum) saw my complaint and responded and forwarded my ticket to a human support
• Off topic

  163 answers, most recent on 6/12/2026

  RE: Magix support has not responded to support tickets for months
  @Frank-Pietrantoni9884 Hello welcome This is a public user to user forum, you are in the wrong forum as your query relates to Vegas software. Please scroll to the bottom of the page and click Vegas link. Stephen Forum Moderator
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 4/22/2026

  RE: Video Deluxe | screen gets stuck to where I can't reposition it.
  @Survey123Jedi In addition to the advice given by @browj2, please remember these are user to user forums, not a contact for any Magix staff, so your request is extremely unlikely to be seen by anyone who might be able to incorporate this change into
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  21 answers, most recent on 3/2/2026

  RE: what are correct driver(s) for the "video grabber" K0065 for win11?
  @John-Wurm HI Hi and welcome to the forum. Additional information about your computer system may help diagnosis of the issue(s) you are having: The specification of your computer system including Windows version and program version, see this topic
• Video Pro X

  45 answers, most recent on 6/6/2026

  RE: DVDs cut don't play
  @rickduley Hi Rick, Thanks for the images; everything appears "normal" there! And for listing the type of disc. But are they DVD+R or DVD-R? In my experience, for single-layer -R are "better", i.e. produce fewer failures. What about the other
• SOUND FORGE

  One answer, on 1/15/2026

  RE: VU monitoring of record levels while muting monitoring of recording
  Hi @Paul-McKinney, "View> Record Options"The Sound Forge 'Record' UI was changed in SF-11 and basically remains.FWIW, the 'Remote record' feature was removed at some point after Magix's acquisition, but was brought back on a subsequent build.
• Video Pro X

  45 answers, most recent on 6/6/2026

  RE: DVDs cut don't play
  @rickduley Hi Rick . . . . I cut DVDs to disc (single and double layer) and they do not play either on my video player or even back in the DVD Drive . . . . What procedure are you using to do this from start to burning to disc and what
• Music Maker

  One answer, on 4/7/2026

  RE: App Crashes when FX are Used on Vocals
  @producer2000 In case there are cache problems you could reset the program settings under the File > Settings menu. Other things you could try: - restart your computer via the Restart option and not the Shut down option - check Windows for errors
• Music Maker

  10 answers, most recent on 3/22/2026

  RE: I need to get a refund processed but Magix support keeps bouncing it
  @peter1968 I read a comment on Reddit some weeks ago from a former support staff member who worked for 10 years at Magix. In December they get like 80% of their yearly support request volume, because all kinds of users want to finish their yearly
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 5/23/2026

  RE: Crystal Ball Gazing
  @bjtap Hi To answer your questions, from my point of view: Yes and no, responses are getting better, however the going round in circles with the AI feature is a pain, it ewill eventually give up and forward the request to a Support person.  ProDad
• Audio Cleaning Lab

  11 answers, most recent on 2/24/2026

  RE: Need 2 files from Audio Cleaning Lab 10 cd distribution
  @clement5 Ok, I don't know if SFACL4 still has DX plugin compatibility. Likely not. Can this tool help you? https://craiganderton.org/how-to-use-dx-plug-ins-with-vst-only-daws/ https://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/dxshell_v1.0.5b.zip ACL had a very
• Music Maker

  16 answers, most recent on 1/12/2026

  RE: Midi keyboard not playing live
  @Alex-Kirkwood Hi . . . . Forum is a pain in the neck. It's not uploading screenshot. . . . Magix are aware of the forum issue with uploading images and video and are working on it. John EBForum Moderator
• SOUND FORGE

  7 answers, most recent on 4/9/2026

  RE: Ozone elements says serial # wrong
  @Paul-Gaunt In addition to what @SP. has quite correctly written, please be aware that Sound Forge is now manufactured by BorisFX so all support requests should be directed to them. However, it is likely that the confirmation of purchase email you
• SOUND FORGE

  13 answers, most recent on 3/16/2026

  RE: SF11 is stable - SF13, 14, 16 fail.
  Hi @mmcswnavy24, You should be able to purchase SF 17 or 18 here which seems to be working,. at least from my location in USA. . or at least try the free 30-day trial version.https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/sound-forge-pro/
• MAGIX

  34 answers, most recent on 3/31/2026

  RE: New "owners/developers" of Sequoia, Samplitude and Music Studio.
  @Reyfox Times change. I'm under the impression that Gen Alpha doesn't even own or use a PC anymore. At some point anybody who wants certain software will own it and then the market is saturated and you cannot sell enough to keep development funded.
• ACID

  3 answers, most recent on 4/19/2026

  RE: May be there is hope for this program yet....?
  VEGAS & Soundforge have already been updated by BORISFX They’re available now, and this update is far more stable than anything Magix has released in eight years! (Crazy)... Especially Soundforge – I’ve been testing it for 8 hours and the
• ACID

  3 answers, most recent on 12/27/2025

  RE: Music Studio Error 24
  @Akosua-Plessi Hi Error -24 means the serial number has already been registered to another email address. This can be caused by: Entering an email address, that is not the same as you purchased the software with, or there is a typo in the
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 4/30/2026

  RE: Premium Content
  @M-J-S Hi In addition to @browj2's comment regarding email addresses. Once you have created a user account with, email address 1 , then create a new accounts with email address 2 and 3 , you cannot create or change account email address 1 to email
• SOUND FORGE

  15 answers, most recent on 5/8/2026

  RE: Unable to Activate SF18 Pro after a reformat of my computer
  @px41 Apparently, you registered SF 18 Pro under a different e-mail address under which you purchased it. Otherwise it would be listed in your customer account. This also explains Error -24. It could be as simple as a typo you made back when
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

  RE: No video only sound
  @me_again I agree with you! I know next to nothing about Snapdragon CPUs and am content to remain in my ignorance, at least for now! So the information from @Marc-Goder and @johnebaker was "news" to me. Jeff
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 2/23/2026

  Incorrect frame rate on AVI output, incorrect display of frame
  The AVI output uses a lossless compressed codec by default. I have videos in the standard US format 23.976 (24000/1001) But on output I can only coerce it to (23976/1000) which causes problems when matching videos after using other programs on the
• SOUND FORGE

  8 answers, most recent on 2/25/2026

  RE: Sound Forge Audio Studio works incorrect with VST3 plugins
  @tolkachovaa We had some success by installing the free trial version of Music Maker 2026 and copying and pasting the
• Music Maker

  4 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

  RE: System requirements for 2026
  @Michael-Hopcroft The computer is well above what is needed, but it's highly recommend to use an ASIO-capable external USB audio interface for everything regarding audio production on a computer. Good to know. I'm using onboard sound, which is OK