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Subject:sound forge? Posted by: Joeyzb Date:3/12/2003 11:21:53 AM I don't really understand what sound forge is all about? I'm sure I'm missing something. I use acid pro to record in my instrumental parts and vocals and then I mix down in acid itself - using the effects, volume control etc. Is Sound Forge just for mixing down the final mix when I'm all finished mixing down the individual tracks in acid? I don't get it. I was wondering if anybody uses Sound Forge with acid for recording. I myself do not use acid for it's loop capabilities as I do not use the preset loops in acid. Acid is a great tool for sequencing and that's what I use it for. I was wondering if purchasing Sound Forge would help out.
Subject:RE: sound forge? Reply by: Iacobus Date:3/12/2003 3:14:55 PM I definitely use both together. Sound Forge is a digital audio editor. You can use it alone or in conjunction with ACID. Along with Vegas, they complement each other nicely. There are a number of ways of using Sound Forge with ACID. You could take your final mixdown that you rendered out from ACID and master it in Sound Forge. You could create loops (or disk-based tracks) from scratch within Sound Forge. You can ACIDize these custom loops as well. You can externally edit tracks in Sound Forge from ACID. Once you're done editing and save in Sound Forge, ACID will update the file itself with the changes made in Sound Forge when you switch back to ACID. Sound Forge provides tools that ACID doesn't have such as normalization, resampling, channel conversion, spectrum analysis etc., as well as creative effects such as reversing audio and pitch bending. HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: sound forge? Reply by: SPP Date:3/12/2003 3:15:23 PM Soundforge has a lot of uses. One of the big ones is mastering your final mix. It is also good for editing audio files (see the list of types on the specs page). Say you want to chop up a longer audio file. Soundforge allows you to do it. Here’s just one of the things I’ve done with it. I have a cassette tape recording of a friend’s band. The band is no longer in existence and never released a CD since it was before the “home” user could do that. I took the tape and recorded the entire side with Soundforge. I then edited each track so that it was a separate file. After a little re-mastering I burned it to a CD with CD Architect. You can burn from Soundforge too, but not to “Red book” standards. (Version 7 maybe?). It’s a great way to digitize analogue recordings and clean them up. Think about all those old vinyl records you probably have. It has many more features than that, but “audio clean-up” is probably its most common use. Steve
Subject:RE: sound forge? Reply by: stusy Date:3/12/2003 4:52:34 PM I love stuff like this..! one should never assume these music apps have "obvious" uses to even the most casual observer, or idiot, whichever you may prefer on me...thank you mD and SPP...!

Subject:sound forge?

Posted by: Joeyzb

Date:3/12/2003 11:21:53 AM

I don't really understand what sound forge is all about? I'm sure I'm missing something. I use acid pro to record in my instrumental parts and vocals and then I mix down in acid itself - using the effects, volume control etc. Is Sound Forge just for mixing down the final mix when I'm all finished mixing down the individual tracks in acid? I don't get it. I was wondering if anybody uses Sound Forge with acid for recording. I myself do not use acid for it's loop capabilities as I do not use the preset loops in acid. Acid is a great tool for sequencing and that's what I use it for. I was wondering if purchasing Sound Forge would help out.

Subject:RE: sound forge?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:3/12/2003 3:14:55 PM

I definitely use both together.

Sound Forge is a digital audio editor. You can use it alone or in conjunction with ACID. Along with Vegas, they complement each other nicely.

There are a number of ways of using Sound Forge with ACID. You could take your final mixdown that you rendered out from ACID and master it in Sound Forge.

You could create loops (or disk-based tracks) from scratch within Sound Forge. You can ACIDize these custom loops as well.

You can externally edit tracks in Sound Forge from ACID. Once you're done editing and save in Sound Forge, ACID will update the file itself with the changes made in Sound Forge when you switch back to ACID.

Sound Forge provides tools that ACID doesn't have such as normalization, resampling, channel conversion, spectrum analysis etc., as well as creative effects such as reversing audio and pitch bending.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: sound forge?

Reply by: SPP

Date:3/12/2003 3:15:23 PM

Soundforge has a lot of uses. One of the big ones is mastering your final mix. It is also good for editing audio files (see the list of types on the specs page). Say you want to chop up a longer audio file. Soundforge allows you to do it. Here’s just one of the things I’ve done with it. I have a cassette tape recording of a friend’s band. The band is no longer in existence and never released a CD since it was before the “home” user could do that. I took the tape and recorded the entire side with Soundforge. I then edited each track so that it was a separate file. After a little re-mastering I burned it to a CD with CD Architect. You can burn from Soundforge too, but not to “Red book” standards. (Version 7 maybe?). It’s a great way to digitize analogue recordings and clean them up. Think about all those old vinyl records you probably have. It has many more features than that, but “audio clean-up” is probably its most common use.

Steve

Subject:RE: sound forge?

Reply by: stusy

Date:3/12/2003 4:52:34 PM

I love stuff like this..! one should never assume these music apps have "obvious" uses to even the most casual observer, or idiot, whichever you may prefer on me...thank you mD and SPP...!