Soundforge for Editing?

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A lot of people here track in a different program, but edit tracks in Sound Forge. Why?
Does Sound Forge do multitracking?
Is it difficult to fly over a track, edit it, then paste it back to where it was in a different program?
 
Soung Forge is a stereo or wave editor only. There alot of the ealier multitrack pacakges didn't have editors built in. So to have SF linked as the editor ro one of these programs is pretty nice. You can edit the wave file in SF and its automatically updated in the multitracker if it was open when your were editing. So you dont have to repaste after the edit...

SoMm
 
SoundForge also has capabilities that your multi-tracker may not.

The Acoustic Mirror plug-in is excellent and allows you to make your tracks sound as if they were recorded in different halls or rooms (taken from the actual spaces). It can also edit down to the sample level with a pencil tool and has great mastering capabilities.

It's an excellent editor.
 
Agreed. And also the most stable program on this here machine of my mine.
 
Nice...
OK, then if you track in Vegas, then edit your vocal in Sound Forge, can you then hear it in your mix, then undo back in Sound Forge?
IE - Does Vegas refresh live, so you can hear your edits within your song before you decide to keep said tweek?

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How do I preview an edited track in Vegas without saving it? IE - when I edit a track in SF, I wanna preview it in Vegas within my mix before I save it…
 
Im curious to what kind of editing your doing that needs previewed prior to saving? I just do simple cut, paste type of editing. Most other things like eq, compression..etc can be done in Vegas, and Im pretty sure the plug-in that come with SF will also be a plug-in for Vegas.....

But, you should be using undo in SF if what you hear in Vegas isn't doing the trick.

SoMm
 
The kind of editing which needs to be previewed? Things might sound great alone, but lousy in the complete mix.
I wasn't sure if Vegas had the same capabilities as Sound Forge, since most people here say they use SF for the editing.
The thing is, I don't hear the edit in Vegas until I "save" track in Sound Forge.
At which point, it's too late to undo...
I'll check out the effects that Vegas already has...
 
Son of Mixerman is right. Most of what you would need to do (EQ, pans, fades, effects) is done right in Vegas.

Sound Forge is for more subtle things like cutting out sections where the source is quiet and all you have is noise floor, stuff like that.
 
Thanks guys. Yeah...Vegas does have some sweet, intuitive editing in it. The major stuff will be done in SF - noise reduction, cuts, etc.

What's the deal with the surround mixing in Acid 4.0 and Vegas?
Does it really play in surround in a home theater, or just in a DVD/dolby format??
 
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