User Guide

INTRODUCTION

ADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL EDITING

The advantages of digital editing far outweigh the enormous storage

requirements. Once you’ve recorded a sound as a digital sample on your hard

drive, you have the ability to perform edits like copying, cutting, and pasting

without losing any fidelity and, as some people like to brag, with accuracy of

up to 0.000023 seconds (single sample spacing at 44,100 Hz sampling rate).

With a visual editor like Sound Forge XP, you can actually see a representation

of the waveform to navigate through the sound file quickly and accurately.

Another advantage of storing sound digitally is the availability of digital signal

processing (DSP) techniques. Digital signal processing techniques can be used

for filtering, simulating room acoustics, and other special effects to restore or

enhance the original recorded sound.

Finally, with a tool like Sound Forge XP, you can open and save your sound files

to and from a number of different computer platforms and sound cards.

Now get in there and have some fun with Sound Forge XP!