User Guide

CHP. 1 INTRODUCTION

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Introduction

Introducing Sound Forge

Thank you for purchasing Sound Forge and for your continued support of the Sonic Foundry family of

products. Sound Forge 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.

Sample files

Throughout the manual, you will find references to six sample audio files. The manual directs you to use

these files as you experiment with different Sound Forge features. These files are installed in the same folder

as the application:

• Drumhit.pca

• Fill.pca

• Loop.pca

• Musicbed.pca

• Saxriff.pca

• Voiceover.pca

The files are in Perfect Clarity Audio (PCA) format, a Sonic Foundry proprietary lossless audio compression

format.

Full version of Sound Forge versus Sound Forge Studio

This manual is provided to assist users of the full version of Sound Forge as well as Sound Forge Studio users.

For this reason, product features exclusive to the full version of Sound Forge are identified throughout the

manual using the following icon:

In addition, Sound Forge Studio-only issues are identified and described where appropriate.

Shortcuts

As experienced users of Sound Forge products know, there are often several methods of executing a

command, including menus, shortcut menus, and keystrokes. Throughout this manual, the typical method of

executing a command is identified in the procedure, and alternate methods are identified in a section

indicated by the following icon:

A full list of keyboard and mouse shortcuts appears in the first appendix to this manual. For more information,

see Shortcuts on page 243.