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Displaying data window components

Sound Forge allows you to customize the appearance of individual data windows.

1.From the File menu, choose Properties or press Alt + Enter . The current file’s Properties dialog appears.

2.Click the Display tab.

3.Display/hide specific components by selecting/clearing the corresponding check boxes.

4.Select the Save as the default for all new windows check box if you want to set the new configuration as the default data window display.

5.Click OK.

Right-click the Edit Tool Selector (upper-left corner of data window) to display or hide components for the selected data window.

Playbar

The playbar is located in the bottom-left corner of a data window. You can use the playbar to navigate and play audio files in a variety of ways.

Go to Start: moves the cursor to the start of the file.

Play Plug-In Chainer: previews the audio processed through plug-ins when the Plug-In Chainer window is open.

If there is a selection, plays from the beginning of the selection to the end of the selection.

If the Plug-In Chainer window is not open, the Open Plug-In Chainer button () appears instead.

Go to End: moves the cursor to the end of the file.

Play as Cutlist: plays the file with the regions in the cutlist omitted. This button appears only if you treat the playlist as a cutlist.

Stop: stops playback and

Play as Sample: plays the file with the sustaining and release

returns the cursor to its position

loops repeating the specified number of times. This button

prior to playback.

appears only if you have defined a sample loop.

 

 

Play Normal: plays from the

 

cursor to the end of the file.

 

If there is a selection, plays from

 

the beginning of the selection to

 

the end of the selection.

 

 

 

Current playback mode

When you play a file from the playbar, a small horizontal line appears beneath the selected Play button’s icon ( ). This indicates Sound Forge’s current playback mode, which is the mode used when you click the transport bar Play ( ) button. For more information, see Transport bar on page 30.

Changing the current playback mode

To change the current playback mode, click a playbar button or press X .

Optional Backward and Forward buttons

You can choose to display Rewind () and Forward () shuttle controls on the playbar. From the Options menu, choose Preferences, and select the Show shuttle controls on Data Window transport check box on the General tab.

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