Sound Forge 4.5 -

: The software was typically distributed on CD-ROM and required a serial number for activation.

Before the word "podcast" existed (1998), internet radio hosts used Sound Forge 4.5 to edit their shows. They would record a 90-minute monologue, use "Auto Trim" to strip silence (remove pauses longer than 1 second), use "Noise Reduction" to kill the PC fan hum, and finally "Normalize" to -1 dB. sound forge 4.5

Sound Forge 4.5 was one of the first tools to allow home users to burn Red Book compliant audio CDs via third-party SCSI burners (like the Yamaha CDR-series). You could set track indexes (pauses of 2 seconds), adjust pre-emphasis, and write PQ codes directly to a CD-R. That capability turned bedrooms into mastering studios. : The software was typically distributed on CD-ROM