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Editing regions in the Regions List

You can also edit regions by double-clicking the region name in the Regions List. For more information, see Using the Regions List on page 104. This displays the Edit Marker/Region dialog, which also allows you to specify triggers. For more information, see MIDI triggers on page 201.

Right-clicking anywhere in the Regions List displays a shortcut menu containing many commands previously discussed, as well as Replicate and Copy onto Clipboard.

Command	Description
Replicate	Duplicates the selected region and places the copy in the Regions List.
Copy onto Clipboard	Copies the selected region’s information onto the clipboard, allowing it to be pasted into
	text editors such as Notepad.

Creating new files from regions

Sound Forge allows you to quickly create a new file from each region in a file. Sound Forge names each region by appending a numerical value to a user-specified prefix.

1.Open an audio file and create several regions in it.

2.From the Tools menu, choose Extract Regions. The Extract Regions dialog appears and all current regions appear in the Regions to extract pane.

3.Select the regions to be extracted.

Extract Regions dialog

4.If the path in the Destination folder box is not appropriate, click the Browse button and browse to the desired destination folder.

5.Enter the desired prefix in the File name prefix box.

6.If desired, clear the Use Long File Names for destination file names check box and enter an appropriate numeric value in the Start file counter index box.

Note: Clearing the Use Long File Names for destination file names check box forces file names to conform to the 8.3 naming convention.

7.Click Extract.

CHP. 7 USING MARKERS, REGIONS, AND THE PLAYLIST/CUTLIST