Purchased promotion on Amazon, I am satisfied with this software. What prompted me to buy it? Its ergonomics, Sony and gifts (a nicer sound bank than expected, and two plug-ins iZotope, which must separately activate and one is well hidden in the menus - the quality of plug-ins however I was a little disappointed, though I'm not a sound engineer ...). I also use Audacity and Wavosaur, very good free software - that said, as I use VST plug-ins, I find this Sony software simpler and faster to use (via the favorites, in particular), I found too often tell me that this or that was faster in Sound Forge (I had the trial version) when I was working with other programs ... so I bought on promotion ( I guess the next version will be published without undue delay by Sony?). This is the full version of the software box (not updating - not to be confused).