Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 5.0 Now Shipping

Sonic Foundry[R] Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), a leading developer of digital media and Internet software tools, products, and services, today announced that its Sound Forge[R] 5.0 digital audio editing system is now shipping to all distribution channels and is available for sale at www.sonicfoundry.com. Sound Forge 5.0 is available for $499.95 with a $99.95 upgrade for any pre-registered users of Sound Forge. Registered Sound Forge XP users can also upgrade for $249.95. Additionally, Sound Forge 5.0 is available through www.sonicfoundry.com for download at 30% off of the MSRP, and the box version of the software can be ordered from the Web site for 20% off the retail price.

Sound Forge 5.0 provides support for 24-bit/32-bit float/192 kHz audio files, Track-at-once CD burning, and CD Ripping. These features allow the user to produce high-quality audio CDs as well as the ability to transfer music to a hard drive with saving options such as RM, MP3, WAV, and WMA formats. The software includes dozens of editing features including: Cut, Paste, Move, Delete, Mute, Reverse, Fade, Crossfade, Trim, Normalize, Pan, Resample, Enhance, Insert Silence, and more. Sound Forge provides over 35 audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets.

Additionally, the new version includes 20 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins, featuring XFX[TM]1, XFX[TM]2 and XFX[TM]3, and Acoustic Mirror[TM], which can be used for acoustic simulation and microphone modeling. The suite of audio effects includes: Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay/Echo, Distortion, Dynamics, Compression, Enveloping, Flange/Wah-Wah, Gapper/Snipper, Noise Gate, Pitch Bend/Shift, Reverb, and Vibrato; three Eqs--Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic and Time Compression/Expand. It also supports DirectX-compatible Plug-Ins from third party applications.