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Table of Contents
Toolbars
Command descriptions Meters
Main screen
Data window
Editing audio
Using undo and redo
Creating a new data window
Saving a file
Zooming and magnifying
Selecting audio using start and end values
Selecting audio during playback Fine-tuning a selection
Creating and using views
Changing the bit depth
Why use markers, regions, and the playlist?
Using markers
Using command markers in streaming media files
Recording audio
Using regions
Using the Regions List
Using the playlist
Burning CDs
Finding and repairing audio glitches
Applying presets
Extracting audio from CDs
DC Offset
Sound Forge processes Auto Trim/Crop
Bit-Depth Converter
Channel Converter
Adding a chain of effects
Swap Channels Time Stretch Volume
Adjusting envelopes
Adding an effect
What is Wave Hammer?
What is Acoustic Mirror?
Using impulse files in creative ways
Troubleshooting Acoustic Mirror
Samplers
Using the Midi Keyboard
Midi triggers
Sound Forge and Midi timecode synchronization
Crossfading loops
Loops
Looping techniques
Editing loops
Working in the frequency domain
Using a spectrum graph
Using a sonogram
Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
Saving files
About Ircam files About Bicsf and Ebicsf files Opening files
Full version of Sound Forge versus Screenblast Sound Forge
Introduction
Introducing Sound Forge
Sample files
Online help
Installing Sound Forge
System requirements
Getting help within Sound Forge
What’s This? help
About your rights in Sound Forge software
Help on the Web
About Your Privacy Proper Use of Software
Increasing total buffer size
Optimizing for
Sound Forge
Defragmenting your hard drive
Turning on passive updating for video and time displays
Increasing preload size
Turning off the playback cursor and record counter
Turning off the play output meters
Turning on passive updating for video displays
Optimizing for Sound Forge
Learning the Sound
Using the mouse
Forge Workspace
Main screen
Using the mouse wheel
Main screen components
Floating and docking windows
Shortcut key Description
Component Description
Data window
Playbar
Displaying data window components
Displaying a toolbar
Toolbars
Docking a toolbar
Floating a toolbar
Transport bar
Standard toolbar
Views toolbar
Navigation toolbar
Regions/Playlist toolbar
Status/Selection toolbar
Process toolbar
Effects toolbar
Levels toolbar
Tools toolbar
Acid Loop Creation Tools toolbar
Turning off ToolTips
Command descriptions
ToolTips
Play Device toolbar
Meters
Resetting clipping indicators
Scaling meters
Scale Integration time
Displaying VU/PPM meters
Showing labels
Holding peaks and valleys
Faders and sliders
Controls
Envelope graphs
To select or clear all envelope points
Displaying the waveform on an envelope graph
Stereo files
Working with stereo files
Selecting data in stereo files
Toggling channel selections
Single-channel editing
Creating a project
Getting Started
Getting media files
Using the Open dialog
Using the Explorer window
Peak files
Working with video files
Viewing the current position
Playing a file
Playing a file from a specified point
Playing a selection
Playing in Loop Playback mode
Viewing selection status
Viewing selection statistics
Creating a new data window
Active data windows vs. inactive data windows
Saving a file
Copying data to a new file
Using the Save As dialog
Saving all open audio files
Creating custom templates
Saving files as a workspace
Editing audio
Copying
Cutting
Pasting
Deleting
Mixing
Trimming/Cropping
Using undo and redo
Using the Undo/Redo History window
Play the pre-mix file
Format name Description
Selecting status formats
Experimenting with status formats
Configuring the Measures & Beats format
Exporting to Net MD devices
Rendering files
Exporting to Clié handheld devices
Recovering files
Recovering files after a crash
Deleting recovered files
Navigating Zooming, Selecting
Setting the cursor position
Previewing audio with pre-roll
Using the overview bar
Understanding the overview bar
Navigating in the overview bar
Playing audio in the overview bar
Zooming and magnifying
Navigating with the audio event locator
Zooming the time ruler horizontal
Full
Zooming the level ruler vertical
Formatting the level ruler
Using custom zoom settings
Using the Magnify tool
Using zooming shortcuts
Zooming the time ruler with the Magnify tool
Using the Set Selection dialog
Selecting audio using start and end values
Selecting audio during playback
Fine-tuning a selection
Adjusting a selection with the mouse
Adjusting a selection with the keyboard
Understanding snapping
Creating and using views
Creating views
Displaying the Views toolbar
NAVIGATING, ZOOMING, and Selecting
Editing attributes in the status bar
Changing File Attributes Formats
Editing file attributes
Editing attributes in the Properties dialog
Changing the bit depth
Changing the sample rate
Increasing bit depth
Understanding dither and noise shaping
Decreasing bit depth
Minimizing quantization error
Converting from mono to stereo
Converting mono/stereo channels
Save as type
Using the Channel Converter
Converting file formats
Converting from stereo to mono
Viewing and editing summary information
Adding summary information
Viewing extended summary information
Saving summary information
Editing extended summary information
Including additional embedded information
Why use markers, regions, and the playlist?
Using Markers Regions, Playlist/Cutlist
Inserting markers
Using markers
Naming markers
Customizing automatic labeling
Changing the marker position
Detecting and marking clipping
Using markers to create regions
Defining streaming media commands
Using command markers in streaming media files
Command Player type Description
Inserting command markers
Defining Scott Studios data commands
Command Description
Deleting command markers
Editing command properties
Saving command properties as a custom template
Moving the cursor to a command marker
Inserting regions
Using regions
Inserting regions automatically
Parameter Description
While
Editing regions
Creating new files from regions
Regions List
Using the Regions List
Displaying the Regions List
Working with the Regions List
Changing region order
Displaying the playlist
Using the playlist
Adding regions to the playlist
Playlist
Understanding the playlist display
Customizing the playlist display
Repeating a region during playlist playback
Arranging the playlist
Playing from the playlist
Replicating a region in the playlist
Deleting a region from the playlist
Using stop points
Creating a new file from the playlist
Configuring the playlist as a cutlist
Opening a playlist/cutlist file
Saving a playlist/cutlist file
Copying the playlist/cutlist to the clipboard
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Recording audio
Recording Extracting, Burning
Recording manually
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Recording automatically
Triggering by a set threshold
Recording a specific length punch-in
Specifying a punch-in location at the time of recording
Choosing a recording mode
Automatic retake automatically rewind
Adjusting for DC offset
Mini-transport bar in Record dialog
Playing back recorded audio
Using remote recording mode
Synchronizing with other devices
Inserting markers while recording
Viewing input levels
Automatically labeling windows and regions
Configuring gap detection
Changing blinking status
Type drop-down list in the Open dialog
Extracting audio from CDs
Burning CDs
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Closing a CD
Proper use of software
Overwriting
Editing, Repairing Synthesizing Audio
Crossfading, overwriting, and replicating
Crossfading
Replicating
Create a selection containing Sound editing just gets easier
Snapping to events in drag-and-drop operations
Using drag-and-drop
Repeating an operation
Dragging mono selections into stereo destinations
Pasting, mixing, and crossfading with drag-and-drop
Mixing
Creating new windows with drag-and-drop
Finding and repairing audio glitches
Locating glitches
Repairing audio
Open the file containing the glitch
Repairing audio glitches manually with the Pencil tool
Generating DTMF/MF tones
Synthesizing audio
Generating audio with frequency modulation
Specifying the number and arrangement of operators
Generating simple waveforms
Using presets
Applying presets
Processing Audio
Previewing processed audio
Preview parameters
Bypassing a process while previewing
Sound Forge processes
Auto Trim/Crop controls
Using Auto Trim/Crop
Preset Description
Auto Trim/Crop
Minimum inter-phrase silence
Bit-Depth Converter
Converting a file’s bit depth
Channel Converter
Control Description
Channel Converter controls
Estimating DC Offset
DC Offset
DC Offset controls
Creating a graphic fade
Fade Graphic fade
Creating a custom graphic fade
Fade Fade
Graphic Fade Controls
Insert Silence controls
Fade Fade Out
Insert Silence
Inserting silence into a file
Muting an audio selection
Invert/Flip
Mute
Normalize
Normalize Controls
Normalizing Audio
Normalize to
Option Description
Pan/Expand
Creating a custom pan
Creating a pan
Pan/Expand controls
Resample
Upsampling audio
Downsampling audio
Resample controls
Smooth/Enhance
Reverse
Time Stretch
Volume
Increasing the volume of a selection
Swap Channels
Volume control
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Adding an effect
Applying Effects
Adding a chain of effects
Saving effect settings as a custom preset
Applying effects using the Plug-In Chainer
Adding plug-ins to a chain
Selecting the processing mode for audio tail data
Bypassing effects
Arranging plug-ins on a chain
Saving plug-in chains
Configuring chained plug-ins
Saving individual plug-in settings as a custom preset
Removing plug-ins from a chain
Managing effects
Using the Plug-In Manager window
Loading plug-in chains
Organizing effects in the DX Favorites menu
Using the Preset Manager
Automating Effect Parameters
Adding a volume or panning envelope
Adding an effect automation envelope
Showing or hiding effect automation envelopes
Adjusting effect parameters with envelopes
Previewing effect automation
Applying effects automation
Flipping an envelope
Adjusting envelopes
Removing effect automation envelopes
Adding envelope points
Cutting, copying, and pasting envelope points
Setting fade properties
Copying an envelope to another data window
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Adding an acoustic signature to an audio file
What is Acoustic Mirror?
Acoustic signature
Adjusting the acoustic signature
General tab controls
Acoustic Mirror dialog
Envelope tab controls
Summary tab controls
Forge CD-ROM
Recover tab controls
What you need to create custom impulses
Creating impulse files
Recording the impulse through an electronic device
Recording the impulse in an acoustic space
Recovering the impulse
Adding summary information to your impulse file
Trimming the impulse file
Adding realistic stereo to mono recordings
Using impulse files in creative ways
Using the new impulse file
Processing individual audio elements
Panning with head-related transfer functions
Recreating spaces for foley effects and dialog replacement
File Name Impulse positioning
Impulses do not recover properly
Troubleshooting Acoustic Mirror
Stuttering during real-time previewing
Error message explanations
Recovered impulse is too noisy
Compressor tab
What is Wave Hammer?
Wave Hammer dialog
Displaying Wave Hammer
Attack time
Volume Maximizer tab
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Playback versus triggered playback
What is MIDI?
Working with 13 MIDI/SMPTE
Midi triggers
Triggering file playback
Triggering region playback
Using region playback triggers
Advantages of external Midi controllers
Sound Forge and Midi timecode synchronization
Playing regions using MTC from a sequencer
Using Sound Forge to generate MTC for a Midi sequencer
Playing regions using MTC from an external device
Using Sound Forge to generate MTC for an external device
Samplers
Sampling
External samplers
Internal samplers
Configuring the Sampler Tool
Creating a sampler configuration
Open loop versus closed loop
Receiving a sample
Saving sampler configurations
Sending and receiving samples
Sending a sample
Turning on the Midi Keyboard
Using the Midi Keyboard
Midi unity note and Fine tune
Displaying the Midi Keyboard
Generating chords
Configuring the Midi Keyboard output port and channel
Troubleshooting the Midi Keyboard
Specifying instruments
Troubleshooting MIDI/SDS with open loop
Setting up MIDI/SDS hardware
Setting up SCSI/SMDI hardware
Sampler is recognized but does not transfer reliably
Troubleshooting SCSI/SMDI
Conflicting Scsi IDs
Periodic transfer failures
Adaptec 1540/1542CF does not recognize a sampler
Loops
Looping
Sustaining and release loops
Creating a sustaining loop
Creating a sustaining loop with a release loop
Match endpoint sound levels
Looping techniques
Match endpoint amplitudes
Match endpoint waveform slope
Editing a loop with the Loop Tuner
Editing loops
Avoid very short loops
Editing a loop without the Loop Tuner
Loop Tuner
Switching between the sustain and release loops
Crossfading loops
Using the Crossfade Loop tool
Creating an Acid one-shot file
Creating loops for Acid
Creating an Acid loop file
Creating an Acid 2.0 disk-based file
Creating an Acid beatmapped file
Using the Acid Loop Creation Tools toolbar
Halving or doubling a loop
Editing loops for Acid
Shifting a selection left or right
Rotating audio
Saving loop points
Setting loop tempo
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Working with Video
Using the video strip
Viewing video
Enabling frame animation
Animating the video strip
Video Preview window
Previewing files with video
Button Description
Display square
Using an external monitor
Attaching video to an audio file
Detaching video from an audio file
Setting video options
Video file properties
Saving a video file
Configuring your video settings
Items Description
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Working in the frequency domain
Using Spectrum Analysis
Fast Fourier Transform
Using a spectrum graph
Displaying a spectrum graph
Monitoring an input and output source
Changing the graph type
Navigating a spectrum graph
Updating a spectrum graph
Changing the zoom level
Viewing multiple spectrum graphs
Printing the graph
Displaying a sonogram
Using a sonogram
Updating a sonogram
Tuning a sonogram
Returning to a spectrum graph
Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
Printing the sonogram
Frequency minimum
Saving spectrum graph settings
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Keyboard shortcuts
Project file commands
Magnification and view commands
Shortcuts
+ P
Data window edit commands
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Press
Press Cursor moves to
Cursor movement
+ +
+ L
Selecting data
Press To select from cursor to
+ Z
+ F7
Navigation and playback
Record dialog keyboard shortcuts
+ K
Regions List
Plug-In Chainer
Playlist
Additional mouse shortcuts
Mouse wheel shortcuts
Mouse wheel action Result
Hold Ctrl and click to preview a Cut operation. Hold
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Audio data compression and decompression
Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
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Smpte Non-Drop Frame 29.97 fps, Video
Smpte Timecode
Smpte 25 EBU 25 fps, Video
Smpte Drop Frame 29.97 fps, Video
Smpte Film Sync 24 fps
Smpte 30 30 fps, Audio
About Bicsf and Ebicsf files
Using Csound
Ebicsf Files
About Ircam files
Saving files
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Index
Cursor position Custom graphic fade
Csound
Iii
MIDI/SDS SCSI/SMDI
Index
Plug-ins,See Effects
Preload size Pre-roll to cursor Preset Manager
Vii
Viii
Displaying Effects Levels Navigation Play Device
SCSI/SMDI