SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 12 allows you to play and edit audio files recorded with your linear PCM recorder, imported from an audio CD, downloaded from a website or copied from your computer.You can also burn an audio CD and enjoy a variety of features available in SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 12. The Pro 12 Suite variant of Sound Forge includes five additional sets of effects plug‑ins, which cover a very wide range of general music‑production duties.

Essential FX Suite provides 11 high‑quality standard music production plug‑ins: Limiter, Compressor, Gate, deEsser, Vocal Strip, Tube Stage, Phaser, Chorus‑Flanger, Tremolo Pan, Stereo Delay and Reverb. Analogue Modelling Suite provides four mastering plug‑ins: AM‑Munition (compressor/limiter), AM‑Pulse (transient shaper), AM‑Track (tape simulator/compressor) and AM‑Phibia (tube channel strip).

Vintage Effects Suite provides three vintage effects which are intended to sound ‘very analogue’: Corvex (chorus‑flanger), Ecox (tape echo) and Filtox (modulated filter). Variverb II is a modelling reverb based on calculated reflection patterns.

Vandal provides virtual guitar and bass amplification and speaker modelling.