User Guide

CHP. 4 LEARNING THE SOUND FORGE WORKSPACE

Displaying data window components

Sound Forge allows you to customize the appearance of individual data windows.

From the File menu, choose Properties or press + . The current file’s Properties dialog appears.

Click the Display tab.

Display/hide specific components by selecting/clearing the corresponding check boxes.

Select the Save as the default for all new windows check box if you want to set the new configuration as the

default data window display.

Click OK.

Right-click the Edit Tool Selector (upper-left corner of data window) to display or hide

components for the selected data window.

Ruler tags Indicates the position of region end points, loop end points, and markers. Right-click a tag to

display the ruler tag shortcut menu. Drag to edit a tag’s position. Double-click anywhere within a

region to select it.

Edit Tool Selector Toggles through the Edit, Magnify, and Pencil tools. Right-click to display a shortcut menu that

allows you to display or hide data window elements.

Playbar Contains audio transport buttons, including Go to Start, Go to End, Stop, Play Normal, Play

Plug-In Chainer (available only in the full version of Sound Forge), Play as Cutlist (available only

in the full version of Sound Forge), and Play as Sample (available only in the full version of Sound

Forge. For more information on the playbar, please see page 34.

Selection status boxes Displays the beginning, end, and length of a selection. If no selection exists, only the cursor

position displays. Double-click the leftmost box to display the Go To dialog. Double-click either of

the other two boxes to display the Set Selection dialog. 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.

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.

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 resolution Specifies the number of samples of data represented by each horizontal point 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.

Maximize width Resizes the data window to maximize its size within the workspace.

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