Sound Forge Pro 10 is an efficient and reliable recording, editing, and mastering tool for composers, producers, and sound engineers. Whether in the studio or outside, Sound Forge Pro 10 is used as a complete solution for professional recording, mastering, analysis, and sound restoration.
The main part of the program interface is the “Workspace” or “Workspace”, in which all ripped audio files are placed. To open a new audio file, use the “New” command located in the “File” menu item. The opened audio file is a “data window” with an image of sound waves (diagram). The program allows you to work with several files at once, but only one of them can sound at a time. You can arrange the data windows on the workspace at your discretion, then save the location to a special file using the “save as” command in the “Workspace” sub-item of the “File” menu. Later you can load it, thereby quickly and easily setting up Sound Forge for a new project.
On the right side of the screen are the “Playback Indicators” or “Peak Meters”, which display the output level of the audio information being played.
To navigate through the audio data in Sound Forge, there is a concept of “current position”, it shows the current state of the played file on the timeline in the format: hours: minutes: seconds: milliseconds. This can be seen digitally on a small display located at the bottom of the “data window” and at the beginning of the file, which looks like “00:00:00:0000”. During playback, the time is continuously counted, measured to the nearest millisecond.
The “Current position” is also displayed by the “current position indicator”, which looks like a vertical line running from the top to the bottom of the “data window”. During file playback, the “pointer” moves along the image of sound waves in the “data window”, graphically displaying the value of the “current position”.
The row of numbers at the top of the “data window” is called the “time ruler” or “Time Ruler”. It shows the time intervals for the open audio file, making navigation much easier. “The Time Ruler can display readings in various formats, such as time, number of samples, and SMPTE format. To do this, right-click on it and select the desired format in the list that appears.
In Sound Forge, you can automatically search for various “amplitude sounds”. These are: unwanted noise, signals that exceed the level you set, and areas of silence that appear due to incorrect settings during recording.
It is useful to use the “search” function when editing a file with a long duration, saving a lot of time. The “Find “function starts from the “current position”, so press the key combination “” Ctrl “+” Home “” on the keyboard, which is equivalent to the command “Go To Start”, which sets the “current position to the beginning of the file”. open the “Find” dialog box, using the command of the same name in the “Tools” menu item.