Dear community,
as you all know, we are constantly developing our Sound Forge family and are pleased to announce the release of our latest patch for Sound Forge Audio Studio 16.
The major update swaps the Organize Plug-Ins window with the new Plug-In Manager.
It also adds various new and updated tutorials, a new VST-Engine, updated user manuals and numerous bugfixes and improvements.
New Feature!
Added new Plugin-Manager View that will replace the Organize Favorites Menu.
Improvements
- VST backend updates
- VST SDK updated to version 3.7.2
- Improved plugin scanning technology
- VST handling performance improvements
- All backend technologies and third party libraries updated to the current standards
- Removed old VST-handling binaries
- Legacy cleanup
- Recreation of Plugin Menu now happens automatically ("Recreate Favorites using Plugin names“ menu option removed)
- Some obsolete files have been removed from start directory
- Updated registration and login screen
- Elastique Pro time-stretching has been updated to the latest version 3.3.12
- Performance fix for the previous update
- Added and reworked help files and manuals for FR and ES
- Improved tooltips in Instant Action View
- Improved button states for Instant Action commands
- Improved "Apply" button functionality in preferences' Labels section
- Increased default size of the Interactive Tutorial window
- Changed meta data column header text display to left alignment
- Output Bus configurations improved for VST processing
- Sidechain Bus configurations improved for VST processing
- Added "Contact Support" entry in "Help" menu
Reworked Interactive Tutorials
- SOUND FORGE overview
- How to burn a CD
- How to pitch bend audio
- How to use Visualizations
- How to use the SF Context Menu
- Changed meta data column header text display to left alignment
- Output Bus configurations improved for VST processing
- Sidechain Bus configurations improved for VST processing
- Added "Contact Support" entry in "Help" menu
Bugfixes
- Minor program versions are now correctly displayed
- A crash when loading FabFilter Pro Q3 has been fixed
- Fixed an issue that let Plug-In Favorites sometimes disappear after rescanning
- Various translation fixes for ES and FR
- Fixed Ozone crash on mono files
- Fixed crashes for eFX VST2 effects
- CD Info when saving .flac files is now saved correctly
- Fixed wrong track number -1 on .flac, .mp3 and possibly other formats
- Metadata "Engineer" is now saved correctly