Sound Forge Lesson 1: Editing Your Sound

Playing a Sound:
1. There are 4 ways to play a sound: i) Click Play All on the Transport toolbar. ii) Click Play on the Transport toolbar. (This will act as a looping playback.) iii) Click Play on the Playbar iv) Click Play Looped on the Playbar

Basic Editing Operations:

1. Sound editing can be used to cut clips down to size, extend the length of a clip, and remove extra noises between sounds, among many other things. 2. In the Edit menu, there are many common editing operations: 3. In order to edit any section of a sound file, you must first highlight it. 4. Listed below are the common editing operations: a) Cut: deletes a selection from the sound file, and copies it to the clipboard. (control + X) b) Copy: copies a selection from the sound file onto the clipboard. (control + C) c) Paste: inserts the material on the clipboard into the sound file at the cursor position. (control + V) d) Paste Special: i) Mix: mixes contents of the clipboard with the current selection. (control + M) ii) Crossfade: Crossfades (blends the overlapping area) the contents of the clipboard with the data in the window. (control + F) e) Trim/Crop: deletes all the data outside of the selected region. (control + T) f) Clear/Delete: Deletes the selection. (Delete) g) Undo: Reverses any change made. You can repeat the undo command to return to previous versions of the sound file. (control + Z)

Practice Basic Editing:

1. Open the sound file in Sound Forge 2. Play the clip to familiarize yourself with what you are working with. 3. You can either trim/crop the main section, or delete the introduction. a) To trim/crop: highlight the section wanted, and then click on trim/crop. b) To delete: highlight the introduction and click delete.