The infrequency of posts is due to Magix' lack of support and response. It appears Magix bought Sound Forge to bury it behind inferior editing software that Magix previously owned.

@ Chris-w18

This is a user forum not a Magix support forum, and is open for personal opinions providing you 'keep your comments factual and objective' ie within the Community rules.

Unsubstantiated comments such as the above are not helpful to other users.

John EB

Forum Moderator

Thank you. The messenger accepts the bullet.

@Johnebaker:

How is it that you are a moderator of this "user forum" but "...do not use Sound Forge???" (johnebaker wrote on 02/19/2017, 02:52 PM)

Since this is apparently the wrong place, please provide a link to a Magix Sound Forge Mac support forum that will be read/responded to by Magix people responsible for the product so those of us who are requesting support/features/information about this product can be addressing our posts to the appropriate location and not wasting our time posting here with the other frustrated users (yourself excluded).

Thank you.

@cybercom

. . . . How is it that you are a moderator of this "user forum" but "...do not use Sound Forge???" . . .

See this article on the role of a forum moderator and the Community rules linked to in my post above.

. . . . Re your above comment '. . . . do not use Sound Forge' . . . .

A moderator does not have to be, nor is it practical to be, an expert in every piece of software that is covered by a forum.  

. . . .  Magix Sound Forge Mac support forum that will be read/responded to by Magix people responsible for the product  . . . .

You will have to contact support at magix.com for their view on this.

John EB

@FeatherlightStudio We know that there are a lot of users who want to have a new version of SOUND FORGE. This is why we decided to keep developing. We just announced a release date: https://www.magix.info/de/forum/release-date-sound-forge-pro-mac-3--1188494/

Thank you for your enthusiasm!

@cybercom John is right. This forum is a user forum and almost every moderator has personal experiences and knowledge about MAGIX products but

1. you can't know every MAGIX product by heart and

2. they are not MAGIX employees and they don't know every internal decision (only if we decide to share them).

For the future I'm happy to help you out as far as I can. You can tag me with "@[nickname]", write me a personal message, contact our support (as John mentioned) or you ask our moderators kindly to make contact with MAGIX.

Best regards,
Mathias

Great to hear this news on continued development of Sound Forge Pro Mac!

http://magazine.magix.com/en/sound-forge/

It appears from the article that the feature set will continue to include/support the Izotope powered Mastering effects and Restoration suite that is one of the most useful features in the program. I hope this is the case but we will have to wait to see what the new version includes.

Would love to see included support for more Pro formats like DDP authoring and streaming previewing, hopeful!

Steven Hartwell / Owner
Featherlight Studio
www.featherlightstudio.com

Speaking for myself (but I suspect others as well), I have a bunch of plug-ins (including full versions of the iZotope Elements plug-ins added to SF), and I would rather see my purchase and upgrade payments going into the SF app itself, not into licenses for 3rd-party products that I don't need. If there is a significant audience for those, I would prefer to see those features as paid add-ons. Anyone who already has such plug-ins is basically paying twice for them.

We are in the same boat here as well, as we already own full versions of most of the apparently included plugins.

At this point, we are much more concerned and interested in the stability of the program and how it works on the Mac platform including Sierra under real world conditions. New or rebranded plugins makes no difference if the performance hasn't improved dramatically as we are still dealing with 45 seconds-minutes of loading time for effects and wave files with the old version.

I'm in agreement with TLMuse and FaetherlightStudio on this point. I had already purchased the iZotope plugins, so didn't need them. What exactly did the Pro 3 upgrade I bought get me that I didn't have already? Stability would be top of my list. I love SF and cannot function without it, so thanks for keeping it alive on the Mac. Feel free to contact the power users next time you are discussing any patches or fixes. We are ready to give you feedback.

@gbfaulkner: I'm pretty sure Magix mostly ignores this forum; it's for user community members to communicate with each other. If you want to provide feedback to Magix, my guess is that the best channel is Customer Service via the support site:

https://support2.magix.com/customer/index.php

@gbfaulkner: I'm pretty sure Magix mostly ignores this forum; it's for user community members to communicate with each other. If you want to provide feedback to Magix, my guess is that the best channel is Customer Service via the support site:

https://support2.magix.com/customer/index.php

Hi,

Actually, if you scroll up a few replies, you will see the one from MAGIX_Redaktion. Mathius regularly watches these forums and you can find many replies by him. But yes, the best is to raise a ticket with Magix.

@browj2: Yes, he's replied to me in another thread (in regard to how I could purchase an upgrade). That said, there's been no response to questions as trivial as: How many installations does the license allow? Most threads have no Magix participation at all. The strong impression is that the forum is not meant as a channel for communicating with Magix.

@TLMuse

You are right, the forum is not meant as a channel for communicating with Magix. It is a user forum.

As for the number of computers, normally Magix allows two simultaneous activations. However, as this program is new to Magix and does not seem to follow the same process as most other Magix software, then you probably have 5 installations before you will be told that you have exceeded the number of eligible installations. The next version will probably be under the normal process that limits you to 2 activations and if you want to use another computer, you simply deactivate one, and activate the other. As far as the Mac version goes, you will likely not get any reply because most users here are on Windows.

Did you check the Eula (if you can find it)?

John CB

"Did you check the Eula (if you can find it)?" — As noted in the thread on this topic, no one has been able to find this discussed anywhere, in the app documentation or on Magix.com. And no one from Magix has offered clarification in the forum.