Subject:Recording - editing feature

Posted by: kbruff

Date:1/7/2004 4:32:32 PM

Hello is it possible to have two sessions of Sound Forge 6.0e, one session which is acquiring or supervising a recording process, while another is being used to edit pre-existing files?

Thanks --
Kevin
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Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:1/7/2004 6:00:19 PM

I was asking this very same thing a couple of months ago. No one seemed to know of any way to do it. I do seem to remember doing this with either SoundForge 4.5 or 5. I think anyway. What i ended up doing was having a version 6 window and a version 7 window open at the same time. If you don't have two different versions of SoundForge then you could probably use just about any recording application to record while using SoundForge for editing. ACID, Vegas, and Movie Studio can all record perfectly well.

Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: kbruff

Date:1/7/2004 6:29:40 PM

Thanks for your reply, so I guess I can use Vegas to record while I have SF6.0e, as my editor while I play back on the analog out channels of my sound card.

Yes I did see your posts last fall 2003, when I tried to run multiple sessions to verify your experience, it just did not work. I accurately recalled your posts when I posted my initial question.

Thanks --
Kevin
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Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: RiRo

Date:1/7/2004 8:05:32 PM

No, I don't think so, but I do remember doing it with version 5.0 and 6.0. If you have 5.0, that may be an avenue. Use 5.0 to record, do your editing in 6.0

RiRo

Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:1/9/2004 1:26:17 PM

Just for grins and giggles I tried to find a solution to this problem with a possible work around. It didn't quite work, but here's what I did just incase there's someone here who can take this idea and make it somehow work.

I have Windows XP installed. On that system, I have 2 users available for logins, and since you can easily switch between users in Windows XP without really loging one user off, I figured I would try to run 1 instance of Sound Forge 7.0 under each user. I was able to do this, thus having 2 instances of Sound Forge open on the same system at the same time, with access to all the hard drives under both user loggins.

I started recording with SF7 with user 1, I then switched to User 2. Opened up another SF7 instance under that user. I opened up a file and did a long process, RMS normalization with a -3dB rms setting takes quite awhile. I then switched back to User 1 and unfortunately Sound Forge had jumped out of recording once I did the switch user. Then I went back to User 2 and the file was still being processed. So unfortunately, the only way I would be able to do this, is if I first opened up a file and started to process it under User 1. Then I could switch to User 2 and open another SF7 and start recording, while the processing continued under user 1. I know, not quite what you're looking for, but I thought I would give it a shot to see what happens. Now I'm wondering if I could actually do 2 installs on the same system, but install them into seperate folders so that I would have 2 Forge.exe's in 2 different locations and try to run them both on the same system?

Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: vanblah

Date:1/9/2004 8:11:17 PM

Or you could just try VMWare ... ha ha?

Doug

Subject:RE: Recording - editing feature

Reply by: kbruff

Date:1/12/2004 9:06:11 AM

Thanks for your reply. I admit that your suggestion is clever and I suppose that it is possible to have a dual installation under two directories. What I did was install SF7 in one partition and SF6 in another partition and then execute them both and have one session for recording and another one for all the nice editing features that I need.

I was considering investing in a digitizing unit, that I could just dump the wave data into a SF7 session directory and then really free up the necessary resources.

Do you have any suggestion?

I have not really gone into any research because of current investments. To explain, I have a pair of DAL cards for acquisition and a pair of SB 6.1 for play back. So to be brief I wish I had the foresight to foresee how I use my DAW currently.

In summary do you think a hard disk recorder would be a better solution, for archiving and digitizing, and then I could simply import into SF7 and work from that point?

I am just feeding off the synergy of suggestions and ideas.
Thanks -
Kevin