Effects toolbar

The Effects toolbar contains buttons corresponding to all Sound Forge built-in XFX™ plug-ins.

Acoustic Mirror Adds environmental coloration to your existing recordings. For more information, see What are the Acoustic Mirror effects? on page 215.

Amplitude Modulation Applies a sinusoidal or square- shaped periodic gain to the input signal. For more

information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Chorus Simulates multiple audio sources from a single

sound. For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Multi-Tap Delay Creates a delay with up to eight delay- taps spaced anywhere within 2.5 seconds of the original

sound. For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Simple Delay Adds a delayed copy of the audio signal to

the file. For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Distortion Simulates the overloading of an amplifier. For

more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Graphic Dynamics Applies compression, expansion, and limiting to affect the dynamic range of an audio file. For

more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Multi-Band Dynamics Allows compression and limiting to be placed on up to four different frequency bands. For

more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Envelope Forces the amplitude envelope of a waveform to match a specified envelope shape. For more information, see Envelope on page 210.

Flange/Wah-WahMixes a modulated delay signal with the original signal. For more information, click the Help button

() in the effect dialog.

Gapper/Snipper Removes/inserts sections of silence at regular intervals to create unusual effects. For more

information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Noise Gate Removes signals below a set amplitude

threshold. For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Pitch Bend Creates a modified sound envelope that corresponds to increasing or decreasing the pitch of a sound file over time. For more information, see Bend on page 211.

Pitch Shift Changes the pitch of a selection with or without preserving the duration of the file. For more

information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Resonant Filter Restricts the range of a sound using low- pass, band-pass, or high-pass filtering, and then boosts and adds oscillation to the resonant frequency. For more

information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Reverb Simulates the acoustics of different environments.

For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Vibrato Creates periodic pitch modulation in an audio file.

For more information, click the Help button () in the effect dialog.

Wave Hammer Acts as a classic compressor and volume maximizer. For more information, see What is the Wave Hammer plug-in?on page 227.

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