User Guide

Menu Bar Shows the menu headings for the available

functions. When no data windows are open, the

Process, Effects, and Tools menus are not listed;

these contain functions that require an open

data window.

Status Bar On the left, help (see p. 24) and processing

information (see p. 21) are displayed. The fields

on the right show the playback sample rate,

sample size, mono/stereo, total length of the

active data window, and the total free storage

space. These fields can be edited by double-

clicking or right-clicking on them (except for

the free storage space). When no data windows

are open, the fields are blank.

Workspace The background area behind the data windows.

You can drag and drop sections of sound data

here to create new data windows.

TOOLBARS

The first time you open Sound Forge XP, two toolbars appear on the screen:

the Standard and Transport toolbars. The toolbars contain buttons that quickly

execute commands.

Standard Provides quick access to many common Sound

Forge XP functions. These functions are also

available on the File and Edit menus. For a

complete reference to these commands, see

Chapter 6.

XP BASICS