Sonic Forge vs. N-track??

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YesZep Lick

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I am trying to understand the differnce between Sonic Forge and n-track software. I do understand that n-track is for multi-tracking, but I hear that some people use Sonic Forge as well. What is the difference between these, and what are the benefits of Sonic Forge?

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YZL
 
You mean "Sound Forge" by Sonic Foundry. Sound Forge is a wave editor, used for precise manipulation of individual wave files.
n-Track is a multitrack wave file mixer, very similar really to a standalone multitrack recording device.

n-Track has some wave file editing features, but not to the extent of a typical wave editor. So at times it is necessary to open a file that you're working with in n-Track, in a seperate wave editor.

Wave editors are also damn near necessary when it comes to working with your final mixdown, e.g. performing mastering-like tasks....final compression and other processing...fades...bit depth and sample rate conversion...and so on.

Personally I think that Steinberg's Wavelab kicks the crap out of Sound Forge, but it is expensive. A decent little shareware editor is goldwave at http://www.goldwave.com

Slackmaster 2000
 
I agree with Slack2k. I like to use N-Track and Wavelab as my tag team combo and it works great!

H2H
 
For the price I paid, $99.00, Soundforge 5 is awesome.:)
 
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