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Sound Forge 10 Everything was working perfectly fine. Today I got this error message "the specified operation is not allowed on read-only files" anytime and in any files, I am trying to make any changes

SOUND FORGE

One answer, on 7/17/2024

RE: cannot unzip the file

@Scott-Silverberg Hi Sound Forge Studio 17 is Windows only - see the system requirements here. The program may be able to be used if you install Parallels, create a virtual machine, install Windows and then Sound Forge. There is no guarantee however

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 8/5/2025

RE: soundforge 18, continous pay for usage

@buddy-w It says here: With the Pro version, receive 120.000 characters for Text-to-speech. https://www.magix.com/int/music/sound-forge/sound-forge-pro/features/ Did you already used the full contingent? 120.000 characters are about 150 minutes of

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 6/23/2025

RE: Why in Sound Forge Pro 18 is there two version of Channel Converter?

Thanks again for your help. I ended up re-creating the presets from the Channel Converter in Processes into the second version used in my script. But the second one still can't handle more than 6 Sources. So for those I have to use Sound Forge Pro

Movie Studio

89 answers, most recent on 5/5/2025

RE: Upon importing my photos, they turn to black and white or all black

Gid, I just downloaded GIMP. I have hundreds of photos that need editing from HEIC to JPG. Will this do more than one file at a time? Your directions sounded so simple but I'm not sure what I'm doing.

Video Pro X

5 answers, most recent on 9/3/2023

[Solved] Very bad quality on imported video

Hello everyone, I've just purchased Video Pro so not familiar with it yet. Forgive me if the solution is obvious. When importing this video I'd like to edit, this is how it appears in the preview screen. It's a .mov, so I thought perhaps that was

Off topic

163 answers, most recent 11 hours ago

RE: Magix support has not responded to support tickets for months

I had high hopes as well, no response for support tickets in months! I cannot register ANY of my older software versions of Sound Forge ACL 1-&-3. I HAD to purchase ACL4 and it to has problems so; should I purchase ANY other Software from

SOUND FORGE

27 answers, most recent on 3/19/2025

RE: Sound Forge Audio Studio 17 doesn't detect Ozone 11 Standard (VST3)

? I am trying to record with a USB microphone, and I keep getting an error message saying a device is unavailable. I went to Windows, made sure the USB mic was set to input. I went to Preferences in Sound Forge, turned on Wave Direct, and I saw the

SOUND FORGE

7 answers, most recent on 1/31/2026

RE: Can't save sound recordings from vinyl rsestoration tool as mp3

This a repeat request for assistance. I am using Sound Forge Audio Studio 17, which I purchased a few weeks ago, to digitze my cassettes and LPs. I recorded a 90 minute cassette, and followed the instructions from the vinyl restoration tool. I used

SOUND FORGE

27 answers, most recent on 3/19/2025

RE: Sound Forge Audio Studio 17 doesn't detect Ozone 11 Standard (VST3)

@drmq You can still try to reset the program settings under the File menu. Maybe there is something blocking Ozone 11 from being added to the list. Maybe it was blacklisted in a program config file after a problem? Yes sure, I could also format my

SOUND FORGE

15 answers, most recent on 3/29/2026

RE: Error Message -24

@Matth Hello Matth, It's unfortunate that you haven't been able to resolve your issue (yet). As a moderator, I see that you changed your name from Matthew-Hopcropt to Matth on August 26, 2025. Did you also happen to change your email address?You

SOUND FORGE

7 answers, most recent on 4/2/2026

RE: soundforge 17 error

In that case, I would uninstall Sound Forge using a third-party uninstaller like 'Revo Uninstall' that can uninstall and remove left-over registry entries and other pertinent data the Windows uninstall leaves behind, which can cause issues to

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 7/31/2025

RE: 2026 trial download

@kostas it's not really clear to me, what is the cause of the problem here. In this thread, it was solved by enabling TLS protocols in the Internet options and the disabling the warnings if a connection is redirected:

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 1/18/2023

[Solved] missing template in audio studio when used as Vegas Pro audio editor

1) Editing video in Vegas Pro 17 (e.g. 19 & 20 broken for me) 2) Wish to modify audio track of video 3) specified Sound Forge as Vegas Pro audio editor 13 4) Selected track and picked open in Sound Forge XP 5) Sound Forge Opened and I was able

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 4/14/2023

RE: [Solved] NEW SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 17

@Jeff-Degler Sound Forge Audio Studio should import multiple channels fine. I think it supports up to 5 or 6 channel surround audio files. But it's not a multitrack DAW where you can layer several audio tracks on top of each other. Magix Samplitude

SOUND FORGE

30 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

RE: Removing of Back Ground Sound

@Theuns-Serfontein If I run my installer of Sound Forge Pro 15 Suite, I get the following options: As you can see, there is the option for the Noise Reduction Pack. If this is missing in your Sound Forge installer, then it isn't included in your

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 6/11/2023

[Solved] Echo in voice when using Microphone

Hello, I am trying to record my lyrics on a song but everytime I hit record and speak, my voice always echos back or mirrors the time that I speak depending on the buffer size I have it set on. I have already tried setting it to 2048 and 1024 and

Audio Cleaning Lab

13 answers, most recent on 2/27/2025

RE: Problems Installing Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab4

@James-McCall It's odd that is it crashing in the cdprinter.exe. Have you tried running C:\Program Files\SOUND FORGE\SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 4\AMLab_x64.exe directly? Maybe rename cdprinter.exe to something like cdprinter.exe.bak. If you

SOUND FORGE

10 answers, most recent on 4/24/2023

[Solved] Very annoying beep that is added to recordings on editing.

Please advise how to remove the beep that this program is inserting into the audio. This is version 17. I have just wrecked several recordings with this beep that inserts itself and should not happen at all. I paid for this program as I very happy

ACID

2 answers, most recent on 8/24/2024

Render Sound Quality

Hi, If anyone could offer some advice, that would be great. I record in 24 x 44,100 in Acid Pro but when i render to a wav file, I can definitely hear a major loss of sound quality. It sounds telephonic and like the sound is almost coming from a tin

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 1/21/2023

[Solved] record internal audio

I am trying to record internal audio on my laptop without a dedicated sound card. Whenever I click record I get a terrible feedback loop. Is there a proper way to set this up so that I don't hear any audio loop? Do I need to disable the mic so that

Music Maker

5 answers, most recent on 4/10/2023

[Solved] [SOLVED] I don't understand how to redeem my credit?

Hi, so I recently got music maker through the humble bundle, and when i activated my account it said I had credit to redeem items for free. Which sounded great- but whenever I open the menu it seems to only be a discount, and not a free redeemal?

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 12/8/2024

RE: Waves Plugins V15 do not work in Sound Forge Pro V17

I downloaded a 30 day trial version of Sound Forge Pro V18 and the Waves V15 plugins work just fine. Magix currently wants $200 for the upgrade to Sound Forge Pro V18. That is ludicrous. I haven't used any of the new features when I updated to Sound

SOUND FORGE

8 answers, most recent on 8/30/2024

Sound Forge 17 doesn't install after downloading

Sound Forge 17 doesn't install after downloading, it says to continue and keeps sending me back to this prompt. I have already disabled Windows firewall and security, but the problem continues.