User Guide

APPENDIX A
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APPENDIX A:
OPTIMIZING SOUND FORGE XP
This appendix contains information on configuring your system to maximize
Sound Forge XP’s performance. Sections include:
• Hard Drive Use
• Editing in Direct Mode
• Fast File Saving
• Setting up Wave Devices
• Playback Cursor and Record Counter
• Meters
• Background Processing
• Synchronizing Audio and Video
• Crash Recovery
HARD DRIVE USE
Sound Forge XP is a disk-based sound editor, which means that all editing
operations are performed on your hard drive rather than in your computer’s
memory. This allows Sound Forge XP to edit sound files of almost unlimited
size. Sound Forge XP also stores undo/redo information and clipboard data on
the hard drive.
The drive you specify for Temporary storage (on the Performance page of the Preference
folder, Options menu) must have enough free space to store the data for each
opened sound file, as well as undo/redo information, and the clipboard.
Although this can use a lot of disk space, it allows you to edit long sound files
that could never fit into your computer’s memory (RAM). Hard drives are also
typically much cheaper to add than memory.