User Guide

CHP. 4 LEARNING THE SOUND FORGE WORKSPACE

Displaying the waveform on an envelope graph

Certain envelope graphs (such as in the Graphic Fade dialog) allow you to view the audio waveform on the

graph. If the selection is small, the waveform automatically displays. Otherwise, selecting an option from the

Show wave drop-down list displays the waveform.

Displaying stereo waveforms

The Show Wave drop-down list allows you to specify how stereo files display in the envelope graph.

Stereo files

When a data window displays a stereo file, the upper half of the data window shows the left channel and the

lower half shows the right channel.

Working with stereo files

When playing, editing, or processing stereo files, you can select the left channel, the right channel, or both

channels. However, certain processing tasks cannot be performed on an individual channel of a stereo file.

For more information, see Single-channel editing on page 51.

Selecting data in stereo files

When editing a stereo file, the waveform display is divided into three sections. The mouse pointer location

determines which channel (or channels) is selected.

• The upper quarter of the data window selects the left channel.

• The lower quarter of the data window selects the right channel.

• The middle half of the data window selects both channels.

Specify the channel

to be displayed

Left channel only

Both channels

Right channel only