Sony Sound Forge 5.0 User Manual Guide

User Manual: sony Sound Forge - 5.0 - User Guide Free User Guide for Sony Sound Forge Software, Manual

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Introduction
- Introducing Sound Forge
- Using This Manual
- Full version of Sound Forge versus Sound Forge XP
- Shortcuts
- Installation
  - To install Sound Forge
What’s New?
- Extended bit-depth and sample rate support
  - Bit-depth
  - Sample rate
- Acoustic Mirror
- Built-in DirectX FX Plug-Ins
- CD Writing
- CD Ripping
- Wave Hammer
- Repair tools
- Bit-Depth Converter
- MP3 Plug-In
- Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio (.pca) format
- New registration procedure
Optimization
- Hard drive defragmentation
- Windows 9x/Me default settings
- Direct mode
  - Opening a file in direct mode
  - Peak files
- Faster file saving
  - Relocating the temporary storage folder
- The Sound Mapper
  - Preventing audio breakup
- Total Buffer Size
  - Editing the total buffer size
- Preload Size
  - Changing the preload size
- Forced Write-Through During Record (Windows 9x and Me only)
  - Disabling Forced Write-Through During Record
- Playback cursor and record counter
  - Turning off the playback cursor and record counter
- Meters
  - Turning off the play (output) meters
  - Turning off the record meters
- Passive updating for video and time displays
  - Enable passively updated time displays
  - Enable passively updated video displays
- Scan for external monitor
  - Turning off scan for external monitor
- Background processing
  - Running multiple applications
Controls
- Using the mouse
- Using the mousewheel
- The main screen
  - Main screen components
- The data window
- Toolbars
- Views toolbar
- ToolTips
- Command descriptions
- Controls
- Stereo files
  - Working with stereo files
  - Selecting data in stereo files
- Getting Help within Sound Forge
Fundamentals
- Opening a file
  - The Open dialog
- Playing a file
- Creating a new data window
  - Active data windows vs. inactive data windows
  - Copying data to a new file
- Saving a file
- Audio editing
  - Editing tutorial
- Copy
  - Copying data to the clipboard
- Paste
  - Pasting data in an existing data window
  - Pasting in a new data window
- Cut
- Trim/Crop
  - Trimming/cropping an audio selection
- Mix
  - Mixing audio
- Undo/redo an edit operation
  - Undo/Redo History window
  - Using the Undo/Redo History window
- Status formats
- Zoom and magnify
- Crash recovery
Types, Formats, and Attributes
- File attributes
  - Editing file attributes
- Sample rate
  - Editing the sample rate
- Bit Depth
- Channels
- Converting file formats
- Summary information
Markers, Regions, and the Playlist/Cutlist
- Why use markers, regions, and the Playlist?
- Markers
- The Regions List
  - Displaying the Regions List
  - Understanding the Regions List
- Creating regions
- Creating regions automatically
- Editing a region
- The Playlist
- The Cutlist
  - Enabling the Cutlist
  - Using the Cutlist
Recording, Ripping, and Writing
- Protecting existing audio during recording
  - Recording in Direct mode
- Record dialog
  - Displaying the Record dialog with no open data windows
  - Displaying the Record dialog with open data windows
- Record dialog features
- Displays
- Recording modes
- DC adjust
  - Calibrating the DC adjust
- Record dialog buttons
- Record meters
  - Viewing record levels
  - Scaling the record meters
- Record level
  - Setting the record level
- Record dialog toolbar
- Other features
- Extracting data from CD
- Writing to CD
Advanced Editing
- Pre-roll to Cursor
  - Using Pre-roll to Cursor
- Go To dialog
  - Displaying the Go To dialog
  - Using the Go To dialog
- Using the Set Selection dialog
  - Creating a selection
  - Other Set Selection dialog controls
- Using Mark In/Mark Out
  - Creating selections during playback
- Fine-tuning selection points
- The Overview
- Views
  - Displaying the Views toolbar
  - Creating views
- Paste Special
- Drag and drop operations
- Creating a new window with drag-and-drop operations
- Finding and repairing audio glitches
- Repairing audio with the Pencil tool
- Audio Plug-In Chainer
  - Using the Audio Plug-In Chainer
- Audio synthesis
Processes
- Presets
  - Using a preset
  - Creating presets
  - Deleting presets
  - Using the Preset Manager
- Previewing an operation
- Previews
  - Storing preview parameters
  - Preview parameters
  - The Bypass check box
- Repeating an operation
- 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
  - DC Offset controls
- EQ
- Fade
  - Graphic Fade
  - Creating a graphic fade
  - Creating a custom graphic fade
  - Graphic Fade Controls
  - Fade In
  - Fade Out
- Insert Silence
  - Inserting silence into a file
  - Insert Silence controls
- Invert/Flip
  - Inverting an audio selection
- 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
- Time Compress/Expand
- Volume
  - Increasing the volume of a selection
  - Volume control
Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer
- What is Acoustic Mirror?
  - The acoustic signature
- Adding an acoustic signature to an audio file
  - Adjusting the acoustic signature
- Acoustic Mirror dialog
- Creating Impulse Files
- Using impulse files in creative ways
- Troubleshooting
- What is Wave Hammer?
MIDI/SMPTE
- What is MIDI?
- The Virtual MIDI Router
- Installing the Virtual MIDI Router
  - Installing the VMR in Windows 98 or Me
  - Installing the VMR in Windows 2000
- Configuring the Virtual MIDI Router
  - Configuring the VMR for Windows 98 and Me
  - Configuring the VMR for Windows 2000
- MIDI triggers
- Sound Forge and MIDI Timecode synchronization
Sampling
- Samplers
  - External samplers
  - Internal samplers
- The Sampler dialog
  - Displaying the Sampler dialog
  - Configuring the Sampler Tool
- The Sampler Configuration dialog
  - Displaying the Sampler Configuration dialog
- Creating a sampler configuration
- Saving sampler configurations
- Sending and receiving samples
- The MIDI Keyboard
- MIDI/SDS hardware setup
- MIDI/SDS troubleshooting with open loop
- SCSI/SMDI hardware and setup
- SCSI/SMDI troubleshooting
Looping
- Loops
- Looping techniques
- Editing loops
  - Editing a loop without the Loop Tuner
  - Editing a loop with the Loop Tuner
- The Crossfade Loop tool
  - Using the Crossfade Loop tool
- Looping and ACID
  - Displaying the ACID Loop Creation Tools toolbar
- ACID Toolbar functions
- Saving loop points
  - Disabling the loop points
Working with AVI Files
- Opening an AVI file
  - Multiple streams
- AVI navigation
  - Navigating the video strip
  - Displaying/hiding the video strip
- Attaching video to an audio file
- Saving an AVI file
- Using the Playlist with AVI files
  - Editing with the Playlist
Streaming Media
- Optimizing files
- Creating RealMedia files
- Creating Microsoft Windows Media Format files
Spectrum Analysis
- Working in the frequency domain
  - Fast Fourier Transform
- Spectrum graph vs. sonogram
- Spectrum graph
- Spectrum Settings dialog
  - Saving spectrum settings
- Navigating a spectrum graph
Shortcuts
- General Keyboard Shortcuts
Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
- Audio Data Compression and Decompression
- Transparent Playback and Recording of Non-hardware Supported Audio Files
SMPTE Timecode
- SMPTE 24 Film Sync
- SMPTE 25 EBU
- SMPTE 30
- SMPTE Non-Drop
- SMPTE Drop
RIFF Wave Chunks
- tlst (Trigger List) Chunk
- Markers, Regions, and Playlist Entries as Used by Sound Forge
Object Linking and Embedding
- Introduction to Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
- Using OLE with Sound Forge
- Tips and Limitations
Using CSOUND, MTU, IRCAM, BICSF, and EBICSF Files
- Opening and Saving files
Index

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