Sound Forge question

[Steve Rhoden]

Wish that too…

Steve Rhoden
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[Scott Francis]

I have used Sound Forge since version 4 and when “Sonic Foundry” was still around!!! Sound Forge is an audio editor, and operates as such, in an almost destructive manner. There is no real “reason” that I have found for it to operate like Vegas. But then I have had an audio studio since 1997 and that has been my main stereo editor and mastering program since before video was able to be edited on a computer.

Enough with my POV, HOW did you mute the track would be my question…. In my experience, SF works in a series of steps, and once you change something, you have to go “back” through all of your changes to undo that mute…

Let me know how ya make out!

Good Luck

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Stephen Mann]

I am aware that Sound Forge is a destructive editor, unlike Sony Vegas. Possibly the twain shall never meet. I was trying to apply noise reduction to just one channel of a stereo track, so I selected the unwanted channel, went to “Process” then “Mute”. If there’s a better way, I’m completely open. I then started over and repeated the process for the other channel. Since the source of the noise was closer to the microphone on channel one than channel two, I wanted to handle them separately.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Scott Francis]

You can do one of two things, select only one of the two tracks (by double clicking inside that channel of the waveform), and then process each side independently. OR is you are coming into SF from Vegas, duplicate your audio track, select to work with only left channel on one and right channel on the other and then edit in SF with each individually….make sense?

Good luck!!

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Rick Shorrock]

Stephen, I may have a solution for you, but it doesn’t involve SoundForge. Using your two track in Vegas, put each mic’s track on separate tracks and then render as a 48KHz .wav file. Download Levelator from https://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator. This free program works great for analyzine audio waveforms and levelling them to a consistent level.

[Stephen Mann]

Your missing the point. I am using the Noise Reducer in Sound Forge. Levelator is earlier in the process and it brings the noise up along with leveling the rest of the audio. Sound Forge noise reducer does a great job on the air conditioning noise after Levelator brought it up, but I have to do it twice (once for each channel) because there’s apparently no way to temporarily mute a track in Sound Forge.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Tyson Onaga]

Steve,
Can you export a mono wav(s) from Vegas, edit (remove nosie) in SF, import back into Vegas and re-combine?
– Tyson

[Stephen Mann]

That’s the way I am doing it now, but my original question was how do I unmute a track in Sound forge? It appears that if you mute a track in Sound Forge – it’s deleted.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Tyson Onaga]

That is just weird. I haven’t used SF in years. You’d think it would operate like Vegas or SONAR … Mute/Unmute. I used to use another app called CoolEdit2000 that had some slick features.

Good luck with your workaround.

[Scott Francis]

That is correct Stephen, however if you highlight only one track in SF it plays back ONLY that track….you can edit left and right tracks separately, also, you could create a new mono track and copy the info from left or right into that and edit it, and then copy it back and overwrite it after you process it….
Sonar and Cool Edit are more of DAW’s verses SF being an editor…

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions