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
CHP. 7 USING MARKERS, REGIONS, AND THE PLAYLIST/CUTLIST
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Detecting and marking clipping
The clip indicators in the play meters help you determine whether clipping occurs in your file, and you can
use the
Find command to find audio that matches levels you specify. For more control, however, you can use
the detect clipping tool.
From the
Tools menu, choose Detect Clipping to scan a selection of audio for clipping and add markers where
clipping occurs.
Markers can be quickly selected from the list in the Go To dialog. Also, markers are displayed in the Regions
List for quick playback.
1.
Select the audio you want to scan.
2.
From the Too l s menu, choose Detect Clipping. The Detect Clipping dialog is displayed.
3.
Choose a setting from the Preset drop-down list or adjust the controls as necessary.
a.
Drag the Threshold slider to determine the sound level you want to find.
b.
Set a value in the Clip Length box to specify how many sequential samples must meet the Threshold
setting to constitute clipping.
4.
Click the OK button.
Sound Forge scans the selection and adds a marker whenever there are a number of sequential samples
(determined by the Clip Length setting) with the same value above the Threshold setting.
Tip:
Use Detect all clip-related plateaus from the Preset
drop-down list to detect clipped peaks that may exist in your
file after decreasing the levels in the file. You can then use the
Pencil tool or the Clipped Peak Restoration tool in the Sony
Pictures Digital Noise Reduction plug-in to restore the clipped
peaks.
Using markers to create regions
Once you have placed markers in a waveform, you can use them to create regions. For more information, see
Inserting regions based on marker positions on page 102.