Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang Posted by: Sound Samurai Date:4/13/2005 7:11:32 AM I have already contacted tech support with other problems related to "Soundforge 8.0", but since i got no reply from them hopefully i get more attention from Sony here. When using effects, either Sony's or 3rd party, doesnt matter, and previewing for more than a few seconds, the dialog hangs when pressing Apply while the preview is running. The hang time is somewhat exponentially related to the time spent previewing - if I preview for only a few seconds, the Apply is almost instantenous. If i preview for 10 seconds, the Apply takes 10 seconds before it happens. If I preview for 20-30 seconds, I have to kill the Soundforge process. If you STOP the preivew before you press Apply, the problem is avoided. It is 100% reproducible on my system Oh and by the way, the new CTRL-click-drag the playback cursor feature? Cough cough. Its the most horrendous piece of GUI "advancement" i have ever seen. Where do you think users would most likely zoom in (CTRL-click-drag?) YES AROUND THE CURSOR. I have lost count of how many times I want to zoom in around the cursor and end up scrubbing instead... sigh. the only work around is to start the zooming further away from the cursor, and zoom twice to get the wanted zoom level. Great.
Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang Reply by: evolver Date:4/14/2005 5:47:35 AM Same problem here. Wondering why noone else seems to experience this problem? I guess you can work around this when you drag each and every plugin into the Plugin Chainer, save each as a preset and use those, but who has the time to do that? You did a better description of the bug than I did here: http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=377730&Replies=12&Page=0 You can either stop the preview or uncheck the real-time box to prevent this from happening.
Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang Reply by: rraud Date:4/14/2005 9:56:00 AM Same thing here. In addition SF-8 compleatly locked up, however that only happened on a Aiff files project.
Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang Reply by: evolver Date:4/17/2005 6:34:18 AM One more correction: All plugins suffer from this problem here - even the built in ones like the Graphic EQ and it isn't sufficient to stop the preview. Here it locks up even when I just preview the wave and press stop. I can only workaround this by disabling realtime preview or using the Plugin-Chainer. Who else got this problem? It may be system specific, so I post my configuration so Sony can check: Athlon XP 3000+ Barton on Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, 1024 Value Corsair DDR RAM, Asus Geforce2 VGA card. All on Win XP Home with ServicePack1.

Subject:Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang

Date:4/13/2005 7:11:32 AM

I have already contacted tech support with other problems related to "Soundforge 8.0", but since i got no reply from them hopefully i get more attention from Sony here.

When using effects, either Sony's or 3rd party, doesnt matter, and previewing for more than a few seconds, the dialog hangs when pressing Apply while the preview is running. The hang time is somewhat exponentially related to the time spent previewing - if I preview for only a few seconds, the Apply is almost instantenous. If i preview for 10 seconds, the Apply takes 10 seconds before it happens. If I preview for 20-30 seconds, I have to kill the Soundforge process.

If you STOP the preivew before you press Apply, the problem is avoided. It is 100% reproducible on my system

Oh and by the way, the new CTRL-click-drag the playback cursor feature? Cough cough. Its the most horrendous piece of GUI "advancement" i have ever seen. Where do you think users would most likely zoom in (CTRL-click-drag?) YES AROUND THE CURSOR. I have lost count of how many times I want to zoom in around the cursor and end up scrubbing instead... sigh. the only work around is to start the zooming further away from the cursor, and zoom twice to get the wanted zoom level. Great.

Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang

Reply by: evolver

Date:4/14/2005 5:47:35 AM

Same problem here. Wondering why noone else seems to experience this problem? I guess you can work around this when you drag each and every plugin into the Plugin Chainer, save each as a preset and use those, but who has the time to do that?

You did a better description of the bug than I did here:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=377730&Replies=12&Page=0

You can either stop the preview or uncheck the real-time box to prevent this from happening.

Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang

Reply by: rraud

Date:4/14/2005 9:56:00 AM

Same thing here. In addition SF-8 compleatly locked up, however that only happened on a Aiff files project.

Subject:RE: Effects -> Preview - Apply -> Hang

Reply by: evolver

Date:4/17/2005 6:34:18 AM

One more correction: All plugins suffer from this problem here - even the built in ones like the Graphic EQ and it isn't sufficient to stop the preview. Here it locks up even when I just preview the wave and press stop. I can only workaround this by disabling realtime preview or using the Plugin-Chainer. Who else got this problem? It may be system specific, so I post my configuration so Sony can check:

Athlon XP 3000+ Barton on Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, 1024 Value Corsair DDR RAM, Asus Geforce2 VGA card. All on Win XP Home with ServicePack1.