[Sony Sound Forge 9.0 And KeyGen Setup Free
Betty Neyhart
When using Sound Forge and playing back files I always get a small click/pop on play start. Sometimes it seems part of the audio is skipped too, especially at start of the file. It doesn't happen when playing with loop mode when the file starts over. And with Nuendo I never have any problems, only Sound Forge (version 9.0e) and when starting playback, no matter where in the timeline.
Also, this happens with both my quad core desktop and dual core laptop, both with Windows XP SP3. I also remember the same thing occurred with Multiface (1st edition) I have in my studio, when I used it with PCI-card, the same quad core desktop and Sound Forge.
The drivers and firmware are current. I've tried fooling around with different driver options in Sound Forge, even changed some buffer options but it doesn't help or maybe I just don't know the correct combination.
This problem is a minor nuisance when playing back whole songs but when checking out small files like sound effects it is highly annoying as I can't really be sure whether the click is in the file or not. Skipping parts of audio makes it even worse.
Even more disconcerting, jumping around in a long file using a mouse clicks (especially at 96kHz) will occasionally produce a brief burst of digital noise - like playing back 'non-audio' data. It is not in the RME drivers because it appears on the playback meters within SF. Seems like disc I/O screws up - like using the wrong buffer. Me and my DAW builder have not been able to track this down so far.
It seems Sound Forge 10 has indeed solved this problem! Not perfectly, though. Using ASIO drivers creates a weird effet - when stopping playback, SF seems to repeat some buffer creating a delayed pattern, like a last beat of the bar is repeated. Luckily, using MME drivers this doesn't happen at all and the clicks/pops are gone.
Be aware of the upgrade offer though - VAT gets added to the price in the last pages of transaction (EU VAT for me, living in Finland) and there's no special field to insert EU VAT number of your company to get rid of this extra cost. I kind of wonder where the EU VAT cost really goes when billed by US based company. I'm guessing to Sony's pocket. Consumer service form is full of annoying little questions like version numbers and such which are not related to purchase details at all. I won't even bother...
It seems after Sony purchased Sound Forge, the software has been getting buggier, updates are not that common, new versions cost more and add less interesting features - topped with cumbersome customer service. I just hope they won't ruin this once great software in the long run...
I have also had a problem with the Asio drivers on SF Audio Studio 9.0d on another i7 DAW which is used for broadcast purposes, and has a couple of HDSPe cards. On entering record or playback, an exception occurs and the program quits. Doesn't do it with WDM drivers (but this is not an acceptable solution). SFAS9 is in constant use on my P4 Centrino laptop (with FF400) and I basically regard it as bulletproof (also used for broadcast purposes) in that environment. Not so on the i7 obviously ...
SF should be no problem on multi processors as it was dual processor capable back like version 5. But I think former SF resources have been progressively drained to support other projects like Vegas and ACID. Also subject to creeping featurism ... still haven't worked out whether event based editing is their response to WaveLab montage.
This is easy to fix in soundforge and I presume other Sony software.
You are for sure using the Windows Classic Waves driver in forge in order to support other sample rates as ASIO would play perfectly.
Go to the Audio settings for soundforge. In SF10 its Preferences/Audio.
Click on advanced tab and change the buffer size to around 1024.
This buffers the first 1024 bytes before playing and works perfectly - no pause, no clicks.
The operating system that I used to prepare this tutorial is Windows Vista. The following procedure should be almost, if not exactly, the same for Windows 7. The Windows XP experience may be slightly different due to differences in the Sound and Device Properties dialogs.
6) On the Preferences dialog, make sure the USB Microphone is chosen as the Default recording device. Depending on the other peripherals attached to your computer, this choice may be different for you. You may have to identify which is the appropriate microphone device for the turntable.
19) The next page of the Vinyl Recording and Restoration Tool dialog will allow you to specify the name of the album and artist, as well as the names of each track that was identified. However, with the recording level set so low (1 or 2), it is unlikely that any tracks will be discovered, so simply leave everything blank and click Next.
27) Once the save is complete, you can use the audio editor of your choice to break the saved file into individual tracks. Audacity is a great free utility for editing audio which I recommend. You can also use the Sound Forge Audio Studio application itself to do the editing, though I found its interface to be anything but intuitive.
I am sure you can use the turntable itself with the laptop, but the Sound Forge Studio software might need to be upgraded. I assume the turntable shipped with version 9.0 of Sound Forge Studio? The current version is 10.0 and indicates that it is compatible with Windows 8. Furthermore, shows that an upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0 is available for as little as $26.21.
Interesting that it is not working for you. I have Sound Forge Audio Studio 9.0 installed and working with Window 8 on my laptop. I had worried that the software (and possibly the turntable) might not be compatible with Windows 8 when my old laptop died and I was forced to upgrade, but everything works fine for me.
Hmm, regarding Step 24, did you choose exactly the options shown in Steps 22 and 23? If you chose one of the checkboxes in Step 22 or did NOT choose the checkbox in Step 23, I imagine that the window shown in Step 24 may not show up. This may be ok. You do not need to follow the steps exactly as shown, but I prefer to do it that way because it allows me to preview the results of the recording before saving anything to a file (or burning to a CD).
As far as getting no sound from your CD, were you able to hear the LP playing through your PCs speakers during recording? If not, you may have gotten the selection in Step 6 wrong. What you are doing in that step is selecting the output from the turntable (which the computer generally seems to identify as a USB microphone) as the input for the recording software. You may have selected the wrong device. The capabilities of your PC and the devices attached to it may affect the selections that are available to you, so the trick is finding the listed recording device that corresponds to the turntable.
Hey, so I read that you got the turntable to work on Windows 8, did you mean that you can play the records through the computer? And also could you list out the steps on how you got it to work on your computer? Thank you
Unfortunately, it has been more than nine months since I installed the software on Windows 8.1, and I did not record the specific steps that I took. I do not recall that there was anything unusual about the install. And after examining my current configuration, everything looks like a standard installation.
This is complete speculation, but I wonder if there is a difference between Sound Forge versions and Windows 8 compatibility. I have Sound Forge Audio Studio 9.0. That is an old version which is officially unsupported on Windows 8.1 Despite that, it works perfectly. (Yes, I can play and record LPs via the computer.) A comment from a visitor to this blog also reports no problems with version 9.0. Likewise, this thread on the Sony customer forums reports success with version 9.0. On the other hand, another thread on the Sony forums suggests that there are problems with newer versions of the software.
In any case, it seems that some people have success and others do not on Windows 8.1. While I speculate that it might be related to Sound Forge version, it really is not very clear why it works in some cases but not others. I guess in the end all I can say is follow the steps that I originally described, but that your results may vary. Good luck!
However, a little Googling turned up a copy at the old Sony Creative archives, and another that has been preserved at the Internet Archive. So, assuming you have version 9 (which is what came with my turntable), then one of those should get you going.
I have found that the Sound Forge Audio Studio software does not do a great job of detecting individual songs. That is why in the post I recommend saving the audio as one large file and then using a tool like Audacity to edit it into the individual tracks (see steps 22-27 in the post). That is more work, I know, but it has produced the best results for me. Maybe someone else reading this can recommend a different approach.
i bought my sony plxusb300 turntable (pre owned)last year, unfortunatele they didnt sent the cd software for converting vinyl to digita format, where can i download the free software to dowload the music from the vinyl to my computer?
Since writing up this post nine (yikes!) years ago, I have upgraded my turntable and switched software. I now use Audacity, which is free and runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It can be downloaded from , and it should work with your turntable.
This question is mainly focused on Sony Sound Forge, but if you know of another program that has a similar feature that's fine too. I'm looking for a program that will remove gaps of silence in an audio file. There are plenty of programs that have this so-called "auto trim" feature, but usually it's restricted to removing silence at the beginning or end of an audio file. I've done some research and according to the manual for sound forge, it's auto trim feature will remove gaps of silence of a specified duration. If anyone has any experience with this program please let me know how well that feature works.
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