A limited version sold as Sound Forge Audio Studio which provides an inexpensive entry-level digital audio editor, is also available from Sony.

The software no longer supports Windows 3.x. After version 3.0 all 16-bit support was dropped.

Some features of Sony Sound Forge included in this suite are as follows:

• DirectX and VST plugin support. Version 9 includes a vinyl restoration plug-in and Mastering Effects Bundle, powered by IZotope.
• CD Architect 5.2 software which allows Disk-At-Once (DAO) CD burning.
• Batch conversion functionality
• Spectrum analysis tools
• White, pink, brown and filtered noise generators
• DTMF/MF tone synthesis
• External monitor support for DV and FireWire (IEEE 1394) devices
• Real-time sample level wave editor
• Stereo and Multichannel Recording
• High resolution audio support: 24-Bit, 32-Bit, 64-bit (IEEE float) 192 kHz
• Video support including AVI, WMV, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (both PAL and NTSC) for use in frame by frame synchronisation of audio and video
• Support for a wide variety of file formats

Supported Formats are as follows:

• Ogg Vorbis (OGG)
• Macintosh AIFF
• NeXT/Sun (AU)
• Sound Designer (DIG)
• Intervoice (IVC)
• Sony Perfect Clarity Audio (PCA)
• Sony Media Wave 64 (W64)
• Sound Forge Project Files (FRG)
• Dialogic (VOX)
• Microsoft Wave (WAV)
• ATRAC Audio (AA3,OMA)
• CD Audio (CDA)
• Dolby Digital AC-3 studio – save only
• Raw Audio (RAW)
• HD video 720p and 1080i
• Macromedia Flash (SWF) format open only
• RealMedia 9 (RealAudio and RealVideo) – export only
• Windows Media 9 Series (WMA and WMV)
• Microsoft Video for Windows (AVI)
• AIFF (AIFF, AIF, SND)
• MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
• MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)

All-in-all, Sony Sound Forge is a very stable and reliable music editing software that has become a must have for the music studio and music producing and editing environments.