Sony Sound Forge Quick Start Manual

Quick Start Manual

Revised November 30, 2007

After Sound Forge® Audio Studio™ software is installed and you start it for the first time, the registration wizard appears. This wizard offers easy steps that allow you to register the software online with Sony Creative Software Inc.

Registration assistance

If you do not have access to the Internet, registration assistance is available during normal weekday business hours. Please contact our Customer Service Department by dialing one of the following numbers:

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For a detailed list of customer service options, we encourage you to visit

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/custserv.asp. Use the following

numbers for telephone support during normal weekday business hours:

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Technical support

For a detailed list of technical support options, we encourage you to visit

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/default.asp. To listen to your support

options by telephone, please call 608-256-5555.

About your rights in Sound Forge Audio Studio software

Sound Forge Audio Studio software is licensed to you under the terms of the End User License Agreement you entered into with Sony Creative Software Inc.

About your privacy

Sony Creative Software Inc. respects your privacy and is committed to protecting personal information. Your use of the software is governed by the Software Privacy Policy. Please review its contents carefully as its terms and conditions affect your rights with respect to the information that is collected by the software. For your reference, a copy of the Software Privacy Policy is located at

http://sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/privacy.asp.

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Sound Forge Audio Studio software is not intended and should not be used for illegal or infringing purposes, such as the illegal copying or sharing of copyrighted materials. Using Sound Forge Audio Studio software for such purposes is, among other things, against United States and international copyright laws and contrary to the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement. Such activity may be punishable by law and may also subject you to the breach remedies set forth in the End User License Agreement.

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Table of

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Introducing Sound Forge Audio Studio software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Installing Sound Forge Audio Studio software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Show Me How tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Learning the Sound Forge Audio Studio Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The main window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Main window components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

The data window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Data window components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Playbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Docking a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Floating a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Displaying a toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Standard toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Transport bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Opening a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Working with video files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Playing a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Viewing selection status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Scrubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Creating a new data window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Copying data to a new file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Saving a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Editing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Pasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Trimming/Cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using undo and redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Zooming and magnifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Zooming the time ruler (horizontal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Zooming the level ruler (vertical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the Magnify tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Changing File Attributes and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Editing file attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Editing attributes in the Properties dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Editing attributes in the status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Changing the sample rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Changing the bit depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Converting mono/stereo channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Converting file formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Save as type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using Markers and Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Using markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Inserting markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Using regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Inserting regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Editing markers and regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Previewing a marker or region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Creating new files from regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using the Regions List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Displaying the Regions List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Working with the Regions List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Applying Processes and Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Adding plug-ins from the Process, Effects, or FX Favorites menu . . 29

Applying an effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Recording, Extracting, and Burning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Specifying recording and playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Recording audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Starting recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Recording remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Extracting audio from CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Burning CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Burning single tracks (track-at-once) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Burning a disc (disc-at-once) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

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Chapter 1

Introduction

Introducing Sound Forge Audio Studio software

Thank you for purchasing Sound Forge® Audio Studio™ software and for your continued support of the Sony Creative Software Inc. family of products. The software provides you with the powerful features you have come to expect, as well as a number of new features designed to make digital audio editing quick and easy.

System requirements

The following lists the minimum system requirements for using Sound Forge Audio Studio software:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows Vista™

• 900 MHz processor

• 256 MB RAM

• 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation

• Microsoft Windows-compatible sound card

• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)

• Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)

• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on application disc)

You must provide your registration information to Sony Creative Software Inc. to activate the software.

Installing Sound Forge Audio Studio software

The install utility, setup.exe, located on the Sound Forge Audio Studio application disc, creates the necessary folders and copies all files required to operate Sound Forge Audio Studio software.

Place the Sound Forge Audio Studio application disc in the drive. The setup screen is displayed (if AutoPlay is enabled for your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive).

If DVD-ROM AutoPlay is not enabled, click the Start button and choose Run. In the Run dialog that appears, type the DVD-ROM drive’s letter and add :\setup.exe. Click OK to start the installation.

Click Install, and follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate

version of Sound Forge Audio Studio for your computer.

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Getting help

To access online help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu or press F1.

Toolbar

Tabs

Information pane

The following table describes the four tabs of the online help window.

Tab Desc ri pt ion

Contents

Index Provides a complete listing of the help topics available. Scroll through the list of

Search Allows you to enter a keyword and display all of the topics in the online help

Favorites Allows you to keep topics that you revisit often in a separate folder. To add a

Provides a list of available help topics. Click a closed book to open the pages, and then click on a topic page .

available topics or type a word in the Type in the keyword to find box to quickly locate topics related to that word. Select the topic and click the button.

that contain the keyword you have entered. Type a keyword in the Type i n t h e word(s) to search for box and click the the list and click the

topic to your favorites, click the

Display button.

Add button on the Favorites tab.

List Topics button. Select the topic from

Display

Show Me How tutorials

You can learn more about many of the features in Sound Forge Audio Studio by using the interactive Show Me How tutorials installed with the software.

By default, Show Me How tutorials display upon startup of the application. However, you can access them at any time from the Help menu by choosing Show Me How.

Tip:

To turn off automatic display of the Show Me How tutorials, clear the Show at

Startup check box at the bottom of the tutorial window.

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Chapter 2

Learning the Sound Forge Audio Studio Workspace

This chapter provides an overview of Sound Forge® Audio Studio™ toolbars and controls.

The main window

When you start the application, the main window is displayed. The main window’s workspace is where you perform all audio editing.

Menu bar

Standard

toolbar

Transport

bar

Workspace

Channel Meters (docked)

Status bar

Main window components

The following table describes the major components of the main window.

Component Description

Menu bar Displays the menu headings for the available functions. Standard toolbar Provides quick access to some of the most common tasks in the

application (pg. 8). Transport bar Provides quick access to basic audio transport functions (pg. 9). Status bar Help and processing information appears on the left side. The

boxes on the right side display the playback sample rate, bit depth,

channel configuration, length of the active data window, and total

free storage space (pg. 21). Channel Meters Displays the level of the output audio signal. These meters can be

toggled on/off by choosing Channel Meters from the View menu.

Right-clicking the channel meters displays a shortcut menu that

allows you to precisely configure the appearance of the meters. Workspace This is the area located behind the data windows. Audio selections

dragged to the workspace automatically become new data

windows. Windows such as the Regions List and Explorer can be

docked along the edges of the workspace.

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The data window

Data windows contain audio data (as a waveform) as well as a number of controls and commands used to edit and process audio.

Title bar Time ruler

Edit Tool Selector

Level ruler

Waveform display

Level zoom in/ out

Playbar

Scrub control Selection status boxes

Overview bar Marker bar

Position scroll bar

Time zoom resolution

Time zoom in/ out Maximize width

Data window components

The following table describes the data window components.

Component Description

Title bar Displays the file name. If title information is included in the summary of a file, it

appears here instead of the file name. Double-click to maximize and restore the window.

Level ruler Displays the amplitude of the waveform. Right-click to display the level ruler

shortcut menu. Drag to shift the view up/down when zoomed in vertically.

Time ruler Displays the current location in the data window. Right-click to display the time

ruler shortcut menu. Drag to scroll the data window.

Marker bar Displays the position of region end points, loop end points, and markers. You

can place, name, and position markers and regions anywhere in the data window. These informational tags can serve as cues or reminders highlighting

important events in your project. Edit Tool Selector Toggles through the Edit, Magnify, and Pencil tools. Playbar Contains audio transport buttons, including Go to Start, Go to End, Stop, and

Play. For more information on the playbar, please see page 7. Selection status Displays the beginning, end, and length of a selection. If no selection exists, only boxes the cursor position displays. Double-click the leftmost box to edit the current

cursor position or selection start position. Double-click either of the other two

boxes to edit the selection end position or the selection length. Right-click to

display the status format shortcut menu. Waveform display Displays a graphical representation of an audio file. The horizontal axis

represents time, and the vertical axis represents amplitude. Right-click within

this display to open the waveform display shortcut menu. Scrub control Scrolls playback of your project at varying speeds. Position scroll bar Scrolls forward/backward through an audio file to display sections of the file not

visible in the current area of the waveform display.

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Overview bar Allows for quick navigation and playback of any part of an audio file. The

overview bar also indicates the portion of the waveform currently depicted in the waveform display, as well as the selected region. Click to move the cursor. Double-click to center the cursor in the waveform display. Right-click to start or pause playback. Drag to activate the audio event locator.

Time zoom Specifies the number of samples of data represented by each horizontal point resolution on the screen. This determines the length of time displayed in the data window.

Smaller resolution values display less time. Time zoom in/out Changes the zoom resolution for the time (horizontal) axis. Level zoom in/out Changes the zoom resolution for the level (vertical) axis.

Playbar

The playbar is located in the bottom-left corner of a data window. You can use the playbar to navigate and play audio files in a variety of ways.

Go to Start: moves the cursor to Stop: stops playback and returns the cursor to its the start of the file. position prior to playback.

Go to End: moves the cursor to Play Normal: plays from the cursor to the end of the the end of the file. file. If there is a selection, plays from the beginning

of the selection to the end of the selection.

To ol ba rs

Sound Forge Audio Studio toolbars contain buttons used to quickly execute many of the program’s commands and functions. Toolbars can be dragged throughout the workspace, docked, resized, hidden, and customized.

Docking a toolbar

When you drag a floating toolbar to any edge of the main screen, the toolbar docks on that edge.

Floating a toolbar

When you drag a docked toolbar away from an edge, the toolbar becomes a floating toolbar.

Displaying a toolbar

From the View menu, choose Toolbars. The Preferences dialog appears with a list of available toolbars.

To display a toolbar, select the corresponding check box and click OK.

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Standard toolbar

The Standard toolbar displays by default when you start the application. The buttons on this toolbar provide quick access to many common commands.

New: creates a new data window. Play Clipboard: plays the audio on the

clipboard.

Open: displays the Open dialog. Trim/Crop: removes all data from the file

that is not currently selected.

Save: saves the current audio data. Undo: reverses the last edit operation.

Save As: saves the current file with a new Redo: reverts the previously undone edit name or format. operation.

Publish: opens the Publish Setup wizard Repeat: repeats the last operation. This so you can upload your media file to the command can be used with most Web. processing functions. The previous

operation’s parameters are repeated. To specify new parameters, hold Shift and click this button.

Cut: removes selected audio data and Edit Tool: selects the Editing tool. places it on the clipboard. This command has no effect if there is no selection.

Copy: copies selected audio data to the Magnify Tool: selects the Magnify tool. clipboard. This command has no effect if there is no selection.

Paste: inserts a copy of the clipboard data Pencil Tool: selects the Pencil tool. at the current insertion point. If there is a selection, this command replaces the selected data with the clipboard data.

Mix: mixes a copy of the clipboard data Show Me How: starts the Sound Forge with the current audio file. The mix start Audio Studio Show Me How tutorials. point is either the cursor point or the start or end of the selection in the destination data window.

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Transport bar

The transport bar also displays by default and contains basic audio transport buttons.

Record: records data to a new or existing Stop: stops playback and returns the data window. cursor to its prior position.

Loop Playback: toggles Loop Playback Go To Start: moves the cursor to the start mode on and off. of the file.

Play All: plays the entire file from Rewind: moves the cursor backward in the beginning to end, regardless of cursor current file. position or selection.

Play: plays the file from the current cursor Forward: moves the cursor forward in the position or plays the selection, if one current file. exists.

Pause: pauses playback and maintains the Go To End: moves the cursor to the end of cursor at its current position. the file.

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