:: Sony Acid Pro v5.0c & Sound Forge 8.0b update ::

[lesha]

Sony has released updates to Acid Pro (v5.0c) and Sound Forge (8.0b).

Notable Changes/Fixes in Acid Pro v5.0c:

• A bug has been fixed that prevented the input channel number from being recorded when recording MIDI.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause the Media Manager to crash when performing some editing operations if the Save media-usage relationships in active media library check box on the General page of the Preferences dialog was selected.
• The Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (SONY_MEDIAMGR) setup has been revised to improve security.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented you from creating a media library in any folder that contained a ' character in its path.

Notable fixes/changes in Sound Forge v8.0b:

• A problem with punch-in recording from the Record Remote dialog has been fixed.
• VST plug-in scanning has been improved.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause DirectX and VST plug-ins to remain in the FX Favorites menu after removing or hiding the plug-ins.
• A bug in the Multi-Band Dynamics dialog has been fixed.
• The Set To command on the envelope point shortcut menu in the Graphic Fade dialog now works correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that could prevent you from editing two files with the same file name simultaneously.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause problems with updating meters displayed in plug-in windows.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause the following message to be displayed on startup on systems that included some Adobe applications: "This application has failed to start because PRM.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
• A bug has been fixed that could cause processing jobs in the Batch Converter to fail when the Same as source radio buttons are selected.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented Japanese text from being saved with scripts.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented audio preview when using Echo Audio devices with PureWave or default Wave settings.
• A bug has been fixed that could prevent some commands from being mapped to custom keyboard shortcuts.
• Each Open dialog now saves its own most recently used folder list.
• Markers and regions are now saved correctly with .ogg files.
• A problem has been fixed that could prevent CD drives from being recognized on some systems.

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[lesha]

Sony has updated Sound Forge to v8.0d.

Notable fixes/changes in version 8.0d:

- Support has been added for opening and rendering ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless files.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when bypassing certain plug-ins using automation envelopes.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when starting the Batch Converter script if the current file had not yet been saved.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to crash when running scripts that use markers in a media file and attempt to close the media file via the script.
- A bug has been fixed that could prevent you from dragging regions from the Regions List window to the workspace or to an empty data window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Sound Forge to freeze when starting playback on some systems.
- Improvements have been made to resolve issues with certain VST effects.
- An issue has been fixed that could cause some VST effects to unexpectedly revert to their default settings.
- A bug has been fixed that caused preset labels in the Mix, Crossfade, and MIDI Trigger dialogs to display incorrect settings.
- A bug has been fixed that prevented arrow keys from drawing straight lines with the Pencil tool when holding the left mouse button.
- A bug has been fixed that caused recording to stop prematurely when recording 88.2 kHz audio.
- A bug has been fixed that prevented you from undoing sample-rate changes made via the status bar.
- A bug has been fixed that caused file lengths to be displayed incorrectly in the Explorer window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause lengths to be displayed incorrectly in the Undo/Redo History window.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause Insert Silence to display incorrect time values in the Batch Converter.
- A bug has been fixed that caused the Post-roll setting from Preferences > Previews to be ignored.
- Various issues with the Auto Trim/Crop function have been resolved.
- A bug has been fixed that caused the Markers to Regions command to fail if a selection existed in a file.

Notable fixes/changes in version 8.0c:

- A bug has been fixed that could cause ASIO devices to stop working after installing the Sound Forge 8.0b update.
- A bug that affected rendering and reading of large AIF files has been fixed: 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo AIF renders are now limited to approximately 03:22:53 of audio (536,870,909 samples); 24 bit, 96 kHz stereo renders are now limited to approximately 01:02:08 of audio (357,913,940 samples); the largest file that can be rendered as AIF is approximately 2GB in size. Sound Forge 8.0c will continue to load files created with previous releases that exceed these limits, though other applications may fail to load them.
- A bug has been fixed that could cause problems reading some VOX or IVC files.
- General improvements have been made to scripting and the Batch Converter script. When developing scripts, be sure to use the latest version of the scripting SDK.