How do I convert a dat 'file' to a *.wav file for use in Sound Forge??? -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:How do I convert a dat 'file' to a .wav file for use in Sound Forge??? Posted by:* nickschad Date:10/23/2000 7:26:00 AM I am thinking about buying Sound Forge as it seems to me to be ideally suited to the kind of cut'n'paste technology i want to use to redefine my music: am I right here??? I've got hours of guitar/drum based songs which are recorded on dat - and i need to somehow convert these dat files to a *.wav file format so that i can incorporate/import these into Sound Forge, chop them up into little pieces, and reassemble the best bits to my satisfaction, before i finally offload these on to cd. If anyone has any ideas about how best to do this, i'd be very grateful to hear from you. I don't want to be buying huge amounts of other gadgetry/software if i can at all avoid this. Look forward to hearing from you Rgds Nick
Subject:Re: How do I convert a dat 'file' to a .wav file for use in Sound Forge??? Reply by:* Rednroll Date:10/23/2000 4:13:00 PM Actually you're better off looking into Vegas for this kind of work. Sound Forge is not a very good editor for this type of editing. Yes, it does let you cut and paste as you wish. But to get things to line up properly with correct spacing, you need to be able to slide and trim your waveforms in a non destructive manner of editing. Vegas has all these features, plus it allows you to work with multiple tracks and it very user friendly. Sound Forge only allows you to do this type of editing using the additional CD architect plugin, which was discontinued a little while back because they couldn't keep up with the CDR support. So now they virtually killed half of Sound Forges editing functions without adding these features to a new Sound Forge release. So either look into Vegas or wait until the next sound forge release, which may not have it either, but it will have streaming media if you need that :-). Sometimes I wonder, who's in charge of their marketing team when they make decisions like this? Come to think, I almost purchased stock in this same company. Instead I purchased Vegas Video, and it's value has been on the decline also. Nick Schad wrote: >>I am thinking about buying Sound Forge as it seems to me to >>be ideally suited to the kind of cut'n'paste technology i >>want to use to redefine my music: am I right here??? >>I've got hours of guitar/drum based songs which are >>recorded on dat - and i need to somehow convert these dat >>files to a *.wav file format so that i can >>incorporate/import these into Sound Forge, chop them up >>into little pieces, and reassemble the best bits to my >>satisfaction, before i finally offload these on to cd. >>If anyone has any ideas about how best to do this, i'd be >>very grateful to hear from you. I don't want to be buying >>huge amounts of other gadgetry/software if i can at all >>avoid this. >>Look forward to hearing from you >>Rgds >>Nick

Actually you're better off looking into Vegas for this kind of work.
Sound Forge is not a very good editor for this type of editing. Yes,
it does let you cut and paste as you wish. But to get things to line
up properly with correct spacing, you need to be able to slide and
trim your waveforms in a non destructive manner of editing. Vegas
has all these features, plus it allows you to work with multiple
tracks and it very user friendly. Sound Forge only allows you to do
this type of editing using the additional CD architect plugin, which
was discontinued a little while back because they couldn't keep up
with the CDR support. So now they virtually killed half of Sound
Forges editing functions without adding these features to a new Sound
Forge release. So either look into Vegas or wait until the next
sound forge release, which may not have it either, but it will have
streaming media if you need that :-). Sometimes I wonder, who's in
charge of their marketing team when they make decisions like this?
Come to think, I almost purchased stock in this same company.
Instead I purchased Vegas Video, and it's value has been on the
decline also.

Nick Schad wrote:
>>I am thinking about buying Sound Forge as it seems to me to
>>be ideally suited to the kind of cut'n'paste technology i
>>want to use to redefine my music: am I right here???
>>I've got hours of guitar/drum based songs which are
>>recorded on dat - and i need to somehow convert these dat
>>files to a *.wav file format so that i can
>>incorporate/import these into Sound Forge, chop them up
>>into little pieces, and reassemble the best bits to my
>>satisfaction, before i finally offload these on to cd.
>>If anyone has any ideas about how best to do this, i'd be
>>very grateful to hear from you. I don't want to be buying
>>huge amounts of other gadgetry/software if i can at all
>>avoid this.
>>Look forward to hearing from you
>>Rgds
>>Nick