user manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Optimizing for Sound Forge
- Learning the Sound Forge Workspace
- Getting Started
- Navigating, Zooming, and Selecting
- Changing File Attributes and Formats
- Using Markers, Regions, and the Playlist/Cutlist
- Why use markers, regions, and the playlist?
- Using markers
- Using command markers in streaming media files
- Using regions
- Using the Regions List
- Using the playlist
- Displaying the playlist
- Adding regions to the playlist
- Understanding the playlist display
- Customizing the playlist display
- Repeating a region during playlist playback
- Playing from the playlist
- Arranging the playlist
- Replicating a region in the playlist
- Using stop points
- Deleting a region from the playlist
- Creating a new file from the playlist
- Configuring the playlist as a cutlist
- Saving a playlist/cutlist file
- Opening a playlist/cutlist file
- Copying the playlist/cutlist to the clipboard
- Recording, Extracting, and Burning
- Recording audio
- Recording manually
- Recording automatically
- Recording a specific length (punch-in)
- Choosing a recording mode
- Adjusting for DC offset
- Playing back recorded audio
- Using remote recording mode
- Synchronizing with other devices
- Viewing input levels
- Inserting markers while recording
- Configuring gap detection
- Automatically labeling windows and regions
- Changing blinking status
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Burning CDs
- Proper use of software
- Recording audio
- Editing, Repairing, and Synthesizing Audio
- Processing Audio
- Applying Effects
- Adding an effect
- Adding a chain of effects
- Applying effects using the Plug-In Chainer
- Adding plug-ins to a chain
- Selecting the processing mode for audio tail data
- Arranging plug-ins on a chain
- Bypassing effects
- Removing plug-ins from a chain
- Configuring chained plug-ins
- Saving individual plug-in settings as a custom preset
- Saving plug-in chains
- Loading plug-in chains
- Managing effects
- Automating Effect Parameters
- Adjusting envelopes
- Using Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer
- Working with MIDI/SMPTE
- Sampling
- Looping
- Working with Video
- Using Spectrum Analysis
- Working in the frequency domain
- Using a spectrum graph
- Displaying a spectrum graph
- Monitoring an input and output source
- Displaying frequency and amplitude values, notes and statistics
- Navigating a spectrum graph
- Changing the graph type
- Changing the zoom level
- Working with stereo files
- Updating a spectrum graph
- Viewing multiple spectrum graphs
- Creating and comparing snapshots of the Spectrum Analysis window
- Printing the graph
- Using a sonogram
- Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
- Shortcuts
- Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
- SMPTE Timecode
- Using CSOUND, MTU, IRCAM, BICSF, and EBICSF Files
- Index
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PROCESSING AUDIO CHP. 10
Creating a pan
A pan is used to control the apparent position of a sound between the left and right channels of a stereo file.
1.
Open the Musicbed.pca file.
2.
For users of the full version of Sound Forge: from the Process menu, choose Pan/Expand. The Pan/
Expand dialog appears.
For users of Screenblast Sound Forge: from the
Process menu, choose Pan, and then choose Graphic.
The Graphic Pan dialog appears.
3.
From the Preset drop-down list, choose Left to right (linear). The pan envelope displays on the graph.
4.
Click OK. Sound Forge converts the file to stereo and adds a left-to-right pan.
5.
Play the file. The audio source seems to move from the left channel to the right channel during playback.
Note:
A pan, by nature, cannot be created in a mono file.
Creating a custom pan
Sound Forge allows you to create complex custom panning effects using up to sixteen envelope points.
1.
Open the Musicbed.pca file.
2.
For users of the full version of Sound Forge: from the Process menu, choose Pan/Expand. The Process
dialog appears.
For users of Screenblast Sound Forge: from the
Process menu, choose Pan, and then choose Graphic.
The Graphic Pan dialog appears.
3.
Configure the pan envelope using the following controls:
• Click the envelope to create a new point.
• Drag a point to move it to a new position.
• Double-click or right-click a point to delete it.
• Right-click an envelope segment and choose a new fade type from the shortcut menu.
For more information, see Envelope graphs on page 39.
4.
Click OK. The custom pan is applied to the file.
The pan envelope
displays on the graph.
Hard left at start of audio
Hard right at end of audio