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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CHP. 13 WORKING WITH MIDI/SMPTE
CHAPTER
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Working with
MIDI/SMPTE
This chapter describes using Sound Forge in conjunction with internal and external MIDI devices.
Note:
MIDI/SMPTE features are only available in the full
version of Sound Forge.
What is MIDI?
The musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) is a set of commands or a language that music software and
hardware use to communicate. The most common way to utilize MIDI is to have a device, such as a MIDI
sequencer, generating and sending MIDI commands to another device, such as a synthesizer.
MIDI triggers
You can use numerous internal and external devices to generate MIDI commands and trigger audio playback
in Sound Forge.
Playback versus triggered playback
Procedures in this section use the Sound Forge MIDI Keyboard as the MIDI device for triggering audio
playback.
For more information, see Using the MIDI Keyboard on page 214.
Simple playback
When you click the Play button in the transport bar or playbar, the audio file in the active data window plays
and you hear the audio. MIDI is not involved.
Triggered playback
When the MIDI keyboard triggers playback of the same file, the following occurs:
• The MIDI Keyboard transmits MIDI commands to the MIDI router.
• The MIDI router transmits the MIDI commands to Sound Forge’s MIDI input port.
• The audio file plays.
Note:
In the case of triggered playback, MIDI commands
may come from any software or hardware device that
generates MIDI.
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