Revised February 4, 2010

What’s new in version 10?

•Event-based editing. For more information, see Using the Event Tool on page 161.

•Disc-at-once CD burning. For more information, see Burning disc-at-once (DAO) CDs on page 292.

•Enhanced timestretch and pitch shifting with the élastique Timestretch plug-in. For more information, see Time - élastique Timestretch on page 192.

•Support for processing musical instrument files (.dls, .sf2, .gig). For more information, see Processing musical instrument files on page 245.

•The Global media cache setting on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog allows you to reserve RAM for media recently read from or written to disk. For more information, see Editing tab on page 316.

•Metadata windows. For more information, see Metadata windows on page 25.

•Floating window docks. For more information, see Floating and docking windows on page 23.

•Enhanced window layout management—save, recall, and share custom window layouts. For more information, see Saving and recalling window layouts on page 309.

•Tabbed browsing for maximized data windows. For more information, see Display tab on page 314.

•iZotope MBIT+ Dither bit-depth conversion and 64-Bit SRC sample rate conversion. For more information, see iZotope MBIT+ Dither on page 178 and iZotope 64-Bit SRC on page 191.

•Resonant Filter plug-in.For more information, see Resonant Filter on page 212.

•Custom selection grid lines. For more information, see Using selection grid lines on page 94.

•You can now set default fade types for effects on the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog. For more information, see Editing tab on page 316.

•Enhanced Broadcast Wave Format (.bwf) support. For more information, see Broadcast Wave window (Ctrl+Alt+M, 4) on page 27.

Welcome

After Sound Forge software is installed and you start it for the first time, the registration wizard is displayed. This wizard offers easy steps that allow you to register the software online with Sony Creative Software Inc. Alternatively, you can register online at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/reg/software at any time.

Registration assistance

Registration assistance is available online at http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/chat or by fax at (608) 250-1745.