If you are looking for something like soundforge but for free, then you should try Goldwave, which is really much like it but for free. Another very professional program which is usually used to fix voices, to their corresponding notes is Melodyne. Its really hard to use, but once you know how to use it you can load anything, from a guitar loop to a vocal loop and it will tell you the notes in it and will let you modify it. Its not free though

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Actually you want an app called Melodyne, from Native Instruments. It is the app everyone uses to harrmonize their voice when it is out of range, and to add a bunch of effects.
Native Instruments is the forerunner when it comes to sound editing and creation.

For music creation I reccomend a low end app called FL Studio (Fruity Loops).

But Melodyne is the app. Check it out!

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Heh FL Studio may seem low end but that program can really do quite a bit. I was a bit skeptic when I first tried it out - it didn't give the same hardware look as Propellerheads Reason and the sound quality wasn't the best. But after reading the 'getting started' guide and toying around with it for a few hours, I soon discovered just how powerful Fruity can be.

VST support, importing audio tracks... the list goes on. And just tweaking a few knobs will give the sampled sounds a much more realistic feel.

I guess Image-Line's (maker of FL Studio) only downfall was to initially call the program "Fruity Loops"... which they've changed - for the better.

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