by Audio editing applications come and go like the seasons — Bias Peak and Apple’s Soundtrack Pro are now history, and while GarageBand, Logic, and Adobe Audition all vie for attention (along with Audacity and a few others), Sony has finally brought the popular Windows editor Sound Forge Pro to the Mac. While this should warm the hearts of Mac musicians and audio engineers, the fact is that this first version has enough rough spots to give us some pause in considering it ready for prime time.
Sound Forge Pro delivers some powerful editing tools and audio-processing abilities in an application that takes some time to master. That’s not surprising for pro-level editing software, but while we found the documentation clear and concise, some aspects of the interface show that this app has DNA from the other side of the fence. Sony is promoting Sound Forge Pro as a Mac-optimized application, but it falls a little short of the kind of clarity we’ve come to expect on Mac software.
