user manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Optimizing for Sound Forge
- Learning the Sound Forge Workspace
- Getting Started
- Navigating, Zooming, and Selecting
- Changing File Attributes and Formats
- Using Markers, Regions, and the Playlist/Cutlist
- Why use markers, regions, and the playlist?
- Using markers
- Using command markers in streaming media files
- Using regions
- Using the Regions List
- Using the playlist
- Displaying the playlist
- Adding regions to the playlist
- Understanding the playlist display
- Customizing the playlist display
- Repeating a region during playlist playback
- Playing from the playlist
- Arranging the playlist
- Replicating a region in the playlist
- Using stop points
- Deleting a region from the playlist
- Creating a new file from the playlist
- Configuring the playlist as a cutlist
- Saving a playlist/cutlist file
- Opening a playlist/cutlist file
- Copying the playlist/cutlist to the clipboard
- Recording, Extracting, and Burning
- Recording audio
- Recording manually
- Recording automatically
- Recording a specific length (punch-in)
- Choosing a recording mode
- Adjusting for DC offset
- Playing back recorded audio
- Using remote recording mode
- Synchronizing with other devices
- Viewing input levels
- Inserting markers while recording
- Configuring gap detection
- Automatically labeling windows and regions
- Changing blinking status
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Burning CDs
- Proper use of software
- Recording audio
- Editing, Repairing, and Synthesizing Audio
- Processing Audio
- Applying Effects
- Adding an effect
- Adding a chain of effects
- Applying effects using the Plug-In Chainer
- Adding plug-ins to a chain
- Selecting the processing mode for audio tail data
- Arranging plug-ins on a chain
- Bypassing effects
- Removing plug-ins from a chain
- Configuring chained plug-ins
- Saving individual plug-in settings as a custom preset
- Saving plug-in chains
- Loading plug-in chains
- Managing effects
- Automating Effect Parameters
- Adjusting envelopes
- Using Acoustic Mirror and Wave Hammer
- Working with MIDI/SMPTE
- Sampling
- Looping
- Working with Video
- Using Spectrum Analysis
- Working in the frequency domain
- Using a spectrum graph
- Displaying a spectrum graph
- Monitoring an input and output source
- Displaying frequency and amplitude values, notes and statistics
- Navigating a spectrum graph
- Changing the graph type
- Changing the zoom level
- Working with stereo files
- Updating a spectrum graph
- Viewing multiple spectrum graphs
- Creating and comparing snapshots of the Spectrum Analysis window
- Printing the graph
- Using a sonogram
- Adjusting Spectrum Analysis settings
- Shortcuts
- Microsoft Audio Compression Manager
- SMPTE Timecode
- Using CSOUND, MTU, IRCAM, BICSF, and EBICSF Files
- Index
CHP. 11 APPLYING EFFECTS
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Removing plug-ins from a chain
To remove a specific plug-in from a chain, select it and click the Remove Selected Plug-In button ( ). Sound
Forge removes the plug-in and adjusts the remaining plug-ins.
Press
+ to select the next plug-in or ++ to select the previous plug-in, and then
press
+ to remove the selected plug-in from the chain.
You can also remove a plug in by right clicking a plug-in in the chain and choosing
Remove from
the shortcut menu.
Configuring chained plug-ins
To configure the parameters of specific plug-in, select it from the chain. The plug-in’s parameters display,
allowing you to adjust all controls as needed. For help on the different plug-in controls, click the
Help for
Plug-In button ( ) or click a control and press + .
Saving individual plug-in settings as a custom preset
Once you have adjusted effect parameters in the Plug-In Chainer window, you can save your settings as a
custom preset for later use. You can select a custom saved preset from the
Preset drop-down list to apply the
same effect settings at a later time.
You also have the option of saving the entire chain as a chain preset. For more information, see Saving plug-in
chains on page 175.
1.
Adjust the effect parameters in the Plug-In Chainer window to achieve the effect you want.
2.
Enter a name for the new preset in the Preset box.
3.
Click the Save Preset button ( ). The new preset is saved in the Preset drop-down list.
Saving plug-in chains
Once you’ve set up an effect chain, you may want to save it for later use. When you save a plug-in chain, you
not only save the order of the effects in the chain but also the parameters of each individual effect.
1.
Create an effects chain in the Plug-In Chainer window.
2.
Enter a name for the new chain in the Chain Preset box.
3.
Click the Save Chain Preset button ( ). The new chain is saved in the Chain Preset drop-down list.
Press
+ , enter a name for the preset, and press .
Ctrl
Tab
Ctrl Shift
Tab
Ctrl
Delete
Shift
F1
Enter a name in the Click the Save Chain
Preset button to
save the new chain.
Chain Preset box.
Ctrl
S
Enter