Feature:
I know -- it's Windows-only software, two tracks only. But for huge projects, splitting up work over multiple workstations, even if I record on Mac and burn the eventual discs on Macs, it's still been worth my time and sanity to bring mono or two-track stuff across platforms to do the bulk of the work in Sound Forge.

Quality:
Sound Forge is an armored tank that I've used to travel through the last ten years. I can think of no software, Windows or Mac, that I've used in my work that was as consistently uncrashable and reliable. When you're paying LA-area voice talent $125.00 an hour and up, you'll lose your shirt (or job, as applicable) by losing time, tracks or work. With Sound Forge, I never have.

Value:
Reasonable priced.

Desirability:
People who've never used it just stare at you when you talk about it. People who have used it nod knowingly.

Sound:
It's very good. The better the interface or input board the better, obviously, but this software has made the most of any of them.

Support:
This company themselves as been great, although they had been over-extended just trying to develop too amny products over too broad a front, and conseqently had been strapped for cash. Now that Sony has them, they've left those people in place (and,well, I don't think Sony will be going broke soon...)

Overall:
I'm glad Sony bought it and it bringing it back to the forefront.

Feature:
Installation disk

Quality:
I used this on my PC when I was at war in Iraq, and it still ran fine, even after all the dust and dirt and the PC screen cracking. If I plug in an external monitor, the damned program still runs! I don't know if that is a testament to Compaq Presario's or Soundforge software or a combination of both, but there you have it.

Value:
They don't need to ask less or more for this. It is right where it should be at 299 and you get what you pay for.

Desirability:
I am sold on this forever and will never switch audio editors. I hear these Logic guys go on and on and on about how great Logic is. Have you ever tried to edit your tracks in that Piece of Cr$#p editor on that program? Hence, the reason I don't master my tracks on a Mac. Soundoforge is PC, only.

Sound:
if you have a problem with this software, it is the driver of your audio gear or your own headspace and timing that is in error. Easiest and best audio software I have ever used and I have used them all in 20 plus years of doing audio. It is a digital two track recorder and just as stable as I have found. It has never once crashed on me, and if my system crashed, it remembered the files I was working on and pops them right back into Soundforge, once I reboot. It is never file reversion incompatible. I still load files from back when I was mixing tracks 10 years ago. It has gotten consistently better, now doing video. It has worked with every single soundcard I have ever thrown at it, except MOTU, but that was MOTU's bad driver fault, not Soundforge's. It now comes with Izotope as standard add on. What more could you ask for? I run both iMac and PC, and I use PC just because Cubase 4.1 and Soundforge or so stable on them.

Ease of Use:
You can fire it up, and start working without cracking the manual. But, it goes so deep it can have your head spinning, if you want.

Support:
I remember the boys at Sonic Foundy doing a demo of it back in '96 at my local music store when I was in Virginia. They were great guys, who made a great product, and I hope when Sony bought them out, they all bought retirement homes in Baruba, because this is one software product that lived up to the hype, and there aren't many out there, that can live up to the hype. SF did.

Overall:
Some look prettier, but nothing comes close to the simplicity and work horse stability of Sonic Foundry's (give credit where credit is due) Soundforge. Those code crackers made it and they deserve the credit.