es-k wrote:most of my sound editing happens during the music making process
Same here, but nothing really beats the control you get over your 2 track in Sound Forge. It's especially good for mastering.
You can have a mastering chain of your 20 favourite plugins, then swap and change the order and rattle off a bunch of different masters and burn them to cd at Red Book standard, assuming you still bump cd's.
DAW's can also get a bit clunky when zooming right into a sound... If Sony has embraced multitouch in Lion I would expect to have pinch to zoom and all the other multitouch goodness you get with Mac. That's a big one for me because using a mouse these days is like trying to thread a needle while wearing boxing gloves!
You also get quick and easy ways to repair, chop, batch convert and analyse your audio.
There's also a fella called Burial who composes all his tracks in Sound Forge, so it shouldn't be dismissed as merely an 'editor'.
