Subject:Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Posted by: Stagefright

Date:3/3/2001 5:35:22 PM

Hi
I'm a religous user of SF, and got the upgrade to SF 5.
Like most everyone else, i'm flabbergasted that there's no
CDA option in SF5, and totally surprised by the company's
attitude towards the intergration of CDA in SF 5.. in other
words, you have to keep using the old version of SF, which
to me makes no sense.

Regardless, a bigger flaw for me is that when mixing
straight into SF and going to the record screen, the meters
don't show a clip. They go to 0.0 and just stay there. How
am i suppose to know when my input level is too loud if the
meters won't clip?

Has anyone else had this problem? It's so substantial, that
i really can't use SF5 for recording.

Just thought i'd ask...

MC

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: CDM

Date:3/3/2001 6:16:42 PM

I have the same problem. I record to my computer and to DAT
as a backup and when there is a clip it registers on the
DAT but not in Forge 5.0. It just hits zero.

SF? Any ideas?

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: ramallo

Date:3/4/2001 6:29:17 AM

Hi

Is easy, the metod for optain the over (clip) is diferent
between meters. Some very conservative meters need 3
samples in 0dB for mark OVER, other meters need 5 samples
for mark OVER.
Sonic Foundry need set a control for this in the Sound Forge
(Is a pro needed), a user selectable OVER between 1 to 10
samples.

Bye

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: Stagefright

Date:3/4/2001 9:02:39 AM

I've looked in all the options... and i've driven the
levels into obvious overload and i still can't get the
record level meters to clip.

Of course if i record anything at that level, when i play
it back it's clipped continually. Very frustrating.

Furthermore, i e-mailed tech support over a week ago and
haven't heard back. Not good.

MC

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: billybk

Date:3/4/2001 10:23:55 AM

When recording into SF5.0, I do get the red clip
indicators if I start to overload the inputs. But,
once recorded and playing back that same distorted
audio clip in the workspace area the play level
indicators will show those same type of red clip indicators
but will go to 0.00 level. You can click on them to reset
the indicators to the present level. It just seems to
be missing the red clip light indicator as when you are
recording. In the meantime, if I see the playback indicator
hit "0.00" I know that I'm clipping.

Bill

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: billybk

Date:3/4/2001 10:48:28 AM

I meant to say in my previous post that the
red clip indicators DO NOT show when playing back
files, ONLY when I overload the audio during recording.

Bill

Subject:RE: Setting levels and CDA in SF5

Reply by: billybk

Date:3/4/2001 12:41:43 PM

Upon further investigation, I discovered that once I
have recorded a file that is clearly distorted, on
playback it will intitially show the red clip indicator
the first time it is played. But, after it is reset
and the same clip plays thru again the red clip indicator
no longer responds to the audio clipping. The play meter
only shows 0.00 at the top. I can repeat this process
time and time again with the same results.

Bill