Sound forge can be a little simplistic if you look it at a glance, but it does perform very well to capture audio and manipulate sound for a quick in and out when I am working on a video project. Quick and very effective way to capture and manipulate an audio file, quickly! However, the inbuilt interactive tutorials make editing easy. There is a lot of small icons in the data windows and general software which gives the feel of clutter and can easily dissuade someone from engaging SF especially in the learning stages. I have found this feature quite helpful especially in editing interview podcasts etc. This enables me to enhance vocals in many ways by either applying effects or changing vocal dynamics without necessarily having to alter the background music or ambience. One of the recent feature that has been very instrumental in my working with SF is the Vocal Activity Detection (VAD) which uses AI to detect human vocals in an audio file and applies a red color on the audio wave where vocals are detected. Currently I am using SF Pro 16 and many aspects have been improved with added features. I have been using Sound Forge for a while and it keeps on getting better and better with the newer versions/upgrades. SF is very complete in many ways as there are many tools sufficiently provided to handle any audio editing task.

Sound forge pro mac 2.5