, Sound Forge 4.5 remains a cult favorite for enthusiasts of "retro" computing. It is still often used today by those running vintage hardware to digitize old tapes or vinyl records. READERZONE 15 Sept 2001 —
Released in the spring of 1998, Sound Forge 4.5 did not just edit audio; it democratized it. At a time when a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) cost thousands of dollars and required proprietary hardware, Sound Forge 4.5 offered studio-grade destructive editing on a standard Pentium II PC running Windows 95 or NT 4.0. sound forge 4.5