Sound Forge 5 usage

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YesZep Lick

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For those of you who use sound forge 5, I am just wondering what a typical example would be of using this in combination with n-tracks, or some other multi-track program. For example, do you record drums in n-track on, then open the track in Sound Forge and edit it? Then bring it back up in n-track? And do this as well for other instrument and vocal tracks? If so, what types of things to each track are you doing in Sound Forge? I am just trying to get an idea of how to intergrate the 2 programs. An examples of things you do with sound forge will help.

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YZL
 
You can in fact do what you are suggesting. Some programs, dont know about n-track will allow you to use the VST's in Sound forge as plug ins for real time effects.
 
YZL,

That's the basic idea behind wave editing soft like SF 5.0 and Wavelab (which is my preference). So lets say you recorded a drum track in N-track. you can then open that file, without mixing down or anything in SF and say do some compression/limiting on it, maybe add a bit of reverb, expand the stereo field, etc. You can proccess only certain parts of the track, lengthen/shorten/ loop it, whatever. Then yeah you save the file, and when ya open N-track the drum track has been edited. After you've finished the whole track and you've mixed it down, you can do some wave editing of the whole track; oh, and careful not to ever call this mastering as it gets on some dudes nuts, err...nerves. For me it cuts down on CPU usage by over processing in one program. I add subtle fx/eq in Cubase and do the bulk of my proceessing in Wavelab and some in SF. hope that helps.


Laj
 
What he said is correct. And NEVER use the "M" word.
 
In my own case, I do tracking / mixing /effects in Cakewalk Pro 9. I use Cakewalks export function to then write out a stereo 24 bit mix down. I then load that file into Sound Forge, where I (at minimum) convert it to 16 bit (for writing to CD) and possibly do some other tweaking (and if so, do the tweaking BEFORE converting to 16 bit).
 
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