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The cursor is centered in the data window
The cursor position updates and centers in the data window.
Playing audio in the overview bar
To make navigating a file from the overview bar easier, Sound Forge allows you to start audio playback from the overview bar.
1.Open the Voiceover.pca file.
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Navigating with the audio event locator
Dragging the mouse within the overview bar initiates playback of small audio loops adjacent to the cursor position. This is not technically a scrub function, but it serves a similar purpose. It allows you to audition brief audio segments and quickly locate specific events within a file.
Configuring the audio event locator
1.From the Options menu, choose Preferences. The Preferences dialog appears.
2.Click the Other tab.
3.In the Audio event locator section, edit the
Zooming and magnifying
Since there are considerably more samples in a sound file than horizontal points (pixels) on the screen, many data samples must be represented by each horizontal point when audio data displays in the data window. Depending upon the editing operation, you may want to view the entire file at once or a small portion of data in greater detail. For this reason, Sound Forge allows you to utilize two varieties of zooming: time ruler zooming and level ruler zooming.
NAVIGATING, ZOOMING, AND SELECTING | CHP. 5 |