User manual SONIC FOUNDRY SOUNDFORGE 6

[. . . ] After you start Sound Forge for the first time, the registration wizard appears. This wizard offers easy steps that allow you to register Sound Forge online with Sonic Foundry. Alternately, you may register Sound Forge online at www. sonicfoundry. com at any time. Registering your product provides you with exclusive access to a variety of technical support options, notification of product updates, and special promotions exclusive to Sound Forge registered users. [. . . ] Sound Forge overwrites the selection with the clipboard contents. Overwrite the selection Note: If any of the selection data remains, it is because the length of the clipboard contents was less than the length of the selection. Replicating Replicating allows you to overwrite a selection with several copies of the clipboard contents. When replicating, you must specify whether Sound Forge uses partial copies of the clipboard contents or only complete copies. · Allowing Sound Forge to use partial copies of the clipboard content completely overwrites the selected area. · Forcing Sound Forge to use complete copies of the clipboard content prevents a portion of the selection from being overwritten unless the selection length is an exact multiple of the length of the clipboard contents. EDITING, REPAIRING, AND SYNTHESIZING AUDIO CHP. Create a selection containing "Wow. " 3. The data is placed on the clipboard. Copy the selection 4. Create a selection containing "Sound editing just gets easier. " Create a second selection 5. From the Edit menu, choose Paste Special and choose Replicate from the submenu. Select the Copy partials radio button and click OK. Sound Forge overwrites the selection with multiple copies of the clipboard contents. A partial copy of the clipboard contents is used where appropriate. The clipboard contents are replicated CHP. 10 EDITING, REPAIRING, AND SYNTHESIZING AUDIO 132 Repeating an operation Once you perform an operation on an audio file, you can quickly repeat it with the same parameters by choosing Repeat from the Edit menu. This allows you to reapply the same effect, process, or function to a different section of audio using the same parameters. Note: In the Edit menu, the Repeat command displays in conjunction with the name of the previous function. Repeat an operation by doing any of the following: ·Hold Shift while choosing the command from its menu. ·Click the Repeat button ( ) on the Standard toolbar. Using drag-and-drop Once you are familiar with Sound Forge, you can take advantage of using drag-and-drop to perform many common tasks. Drag-and-drop operations make controlling Sound Forge faster and more intuitive and allow for increased editing power. The three major drag-and-drop editing operations are paste, mix, and crossfade. Dragging mono selections into stereo destinations When pasting, mixing, or crossfading a mono selection into a stereo file, you can mix the selection to both channels by dropping it on the destination data window's center line. Otherwise, the selection is mixed into the left or right channel exclusively. Snapping to events in drag-and-drop operations A major advantage of drag-and-drop editing is the ability to snap to markers, regions, time increments, or other events in the destination window. All drag-and-drop operations can be configured to snap (or align) to points in the destination file based on the events established within that file. The following table describes all events that drag-and-drop selections snap to in the destination file. Cursor Selection Start End Markers Time, Measures, etc. Video Frames Start of block snaps to cursor position. Start of block snaps to start or end points of a selection. Start of block snaps to labeled divisions on time ruler. [. . . ] This is best accomplished by configuring the parameters in the Raw File Type dialog and saving them as presets. The Raw File import function allows these files to be opened providing they are stored in 16-bit linear format. Sound Forge does not open floating point format IRCAM files. Opening an IRCAM file 1. Specify Raw File from the Files of type drop-down list. [. . . ]