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Table Of Contents

Introduction
- Introducing Sound Forge
- Sample files
- Full version of Sound Forge versus Screenblast Sound Forge
- Shortcuts
- System requirements
- Installing Sound Forge
- Getting help within Sound Forge
- About your rights in Sound Forge software
  - About Your Privacy
  - Proper Use of Software
Optimizing for Sound Forge
- Defragmenting your hard drive
- Increasing total buffer size
- Increasing preload size
- Turning off the playback cursor and record counter
- Turning off the play (output) meters
- Turning on passive updating for video and time displays
  - Turning on passive updating for time displays
  - Turning on passive updating for video displays
Learning the Sound Forge Workspace
- Using the mouse
- Using the mouse wheel
- The main screen
  - Main screen components
  - Floating and docking windows
- The data window
  - Displaying data window components
  - Playbar
- Toolbars
- ToolTips
  - Turning off ToolTips
- Command descriptions
- Meters
- Controls
- Stereo files
  - Working with stereo files
  - Selecting data in stereo files
Getting Started
- Creating a project
- Getting media files
- Working with video files
- Playing a file
- Creating a new data window
  - Active data windows vs. inactive data windows
  - Copying data to a new file
- Saving a file
- Editing audio
- Using undo and redo
  - Using the Undo/Redo History window
- Selecting status formats
  - Experimenting with status formats
  - Configuring the Measures & Beats format
- Rendering files
- Exporting to Net MD devices
- Exporting to CLIÉ handheld devices
- Recovering files after a crash
  - Recovering files
  - Deleting recovered files
Navigating, Zooming, and Selecting
- Setting the cursor position
- Previewing audio with pre-roll
- Using the overview bar
- Zooming and magnifying
- Selecting audio using start and end values
  - Using the Set Selection dialog
- Selecting audio during playback
- Fine-tuning a selection
- Understanding snapping
- Creating and using views
  - Displaying the Views toolbar
  - Creating views
Changing File Attributes and Formats
- Editing file attributes
  - Editing attributes in the Properties dialog
  - Editing attributes in the status bar
- Changing the sample rate
- Changing the bit depth
- Converting mono/stereo channels
- Converting file formats
  - Save as type
  - Template
- Adding summary information
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
  - Displaying the Regions List
  - Working with the Regions List
- Using the playlist
Recording, Extracting, and Burning
- Recording audio
- Extracting audio from CDs
  - Previewing CD tracks
  - Refreshing the Extract Audio from CD dialog
- Burning CDs
- Proper use of software
Editing, Repairing, and Synthesizing Audio
- Crossfading, overwriting, and replicating
- Repeating an operation
- Using drag-and-drop
- Finding and repairing audio glitches
  - Locating glitches
  - Repairing audio
- Synthesizing audio
Processing Audio
- Applying presets
  - Using presets
  - Creating presets
  - Deleting presets
  - Resetting parameters
  - Managing presets
- Previewing processed audio
  - Setting custom preview parameters
  - Preview parameters
  - Bypassing a process while previewing
- Sound Forge processes
- Auto Trim/Crop
  - Using Auto Trim/Crop
  - Auto Trim/Crop controls
- Bit-Depth Converter
  - Converting a file’s bit depth
- Channel Converter
  - Using the Channel Converter
  - Channel Converter controls
- DC Offset
  - Estimating DC Offset
  - DC Offset controls
- EQ
- Fade - Graphic fade
  - Creating a graphic fade
  - Creating a custom graphic fade
  - Graphic Fade Controls
- Fade - Fade In
- Fade - Fade Out
- Insert Silence
  - Inserting silence into a file
  - Insert Silence controls
- Invert/Flip
- Mute
  - Muting an audio selection
- Normalize
  - Normalizing Audio
  - Normalize Controls
- Pan/Expand
  - Creating a pan
  - Creating a custom pan
  - Pan/Expand controls
- Resample
  - Downsampling audio
  - Upsampling audio
  - Resample controls
- Reverse
- Smooth/Enhance
- Swap Channels
- Time Stretch
- Volume
  - Increasing the volume of a selection
  - Volume control
Applying Effects
- Adding an effect
  - Saving effect settings as a custom preset
- Adding a chain of effects
- Managing effects
- Automating Effect Parameters
- Adjusting envelopes
Using Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer
- What is Acoustic Mirror?
  - The acoustic signature
- Adding an acoustic signature to an audio file
  - Adjusting the acoustic signature
- The Acoustic Mirror dialog
- Creating impulse files
- Using impulse files in creative ways
- Troubleshooting Acoustic Mirror
- What is Wave Hammer?
  - Displaying Wave Hammer
- The Wave Hammer dialog
  - Compressor tab
  - Volume Maximizer tab
Working with MIDI/SMPTE
- What is MIDI?
- MIDI triggers
- Sound Forge and MIDI timecode synchronization
Sampling
- Samplers
  - External samplers
  - Internal samplers
- Configuring the Sampler Tool
- Creating a sampler configuration
  - Open loop versus closed loop
- Saving sampler configurations
- Sending and receiving samples
- Using the MIDI Keyboard
- Setting up MIDI/SDS hardware
- Troubleshooting MIDI/SDS with open loop
- Setting up SCSI/SMDI hardware
- Troubleshooting SCSI/SMDI
Looping
- Loops
- Looping techniques
- Editing loops
  - Editing a loop without the Loop Tuner
  - Editing a loop with the Loop Tuner
- Crossfading loops
  - Using the Crossfade Loop tool
- Creating loops for ACID
- Using the ACID Loop Creation Tools toolbar
- Editing loops for ACID
- Saving loop points
Working with Video
- Viewing video
- Attaching video to an audio file
- Detaching video from an audio file
- Setting video options
  - Video file properties
  - Configuring your video settings
- Saving a video file
Using Spectrum Analysis
- Working in the frequency domain
  - Fast Fourier Transform
- Using a spectrum graph
- Using a sonogram
- Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
  - Saving spectrum graph settings
Shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse wheel shortcuts
  - Additional mouse shortcuts
Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
- Audio data compression and decompression
- Transparent playback and recording of non-hardware supported audio files
SMPTE Timecode
- SMPTE 25 EBU (25 fps, Video)
- SMPTE Drop Frame (29.97 fps, Video)
- SMPTE Non-Drop Frame (29.97 fps, Video)
- SMPTE 30 (30 fps, Audio)
- SMPTE Film Sync (24 fps)
Using CSOUND, MTU, IRCAM, BICSF, and EBICSF Files
- About IRCAM files
- About BICSF and EBICSF files
- Opening files
  - BICSF and EBICSF files
  - IRCAM, CSOUND and MTU files
- Saving files
Index

USING MARKERS, REGIONS, AND THE PLAYLIST/CUTLIST CHP. 7

Using markers

A marker is a tag placed in an audio file that is used as a reference point. Markers make navigating a file

easier and more efficient.

Inserting markers

Click to position the cursor in the waveform.

From the Special menu, choose Insert Marker. Sound Forge places a marker in the waveform at the exact

location of the cursor.

Press .

Inserting markers using the ruler shortcut menu

The ruler shortcut menu allows you to insert and name a marker in a single step.

Click to position the cursor in the waveform.

Right-click the ruler and choose Insert Marker/Region from the shortcut menu. The Insert Marker/Region

dialog appears.

Enter a name for the marker in the Name box and click OK. The new marker appears in the waveform.

Inserting markers during playback

To insert markers in real time during playback, press .

Inserting markers during recording

To insert markers during recording, click the Drop Marker button ( ) in the Record dialog or press . For

more information, see Inserting markers while recording on page 125.

Naming markers

When you insert a marker, Sound Forge automatically names it for you. You can customize this automatic

labeling feature, or you can name markers manually.

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