soundforge help needed

[G3N3R4L]

everyone always says that soundforge does a good job of seperating a set into individual tracks.

but i can't seem to figure it out on my own.. can anyone give me a quick crash course in making my dream a reality??

thanks in advance!

one way to do it would be to highlight each track (from left to right) and edit->cut, then edit->paste special->Paste to new

This will cut out the track and place it in its own file

hope that helps!

actually there seems to be a better way. Highlight each track, one at a time and go Special -> Insert Region

After you've marked all the tracks as regions, go to Tools -> Extract Regions

[G3N3R4L]

now when you extract regions, will that just save in Folder A as track01, 02, 03.. etc??

and then assumably ill just remove the spaces in the nero to make them line up seamlessly again?

ill give it a shot.

[dSl-DuDe]

this program is a life safer

http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/

its made for splitting up a large track, even creates a .cue file!

All i use!

[G3N3R4L]

found a wicked easy way.. THANKS AMANDA!

use the mark function in soundforge.. then in nero go to properties > seperate track by index marker.

done!

[dabbler]

hit "M" in soundforge to drop markers. double click between each marker to highlight songs, and drag into a new window. save each song

[Infidel]

place markers where u want to split the tracks (don't forget very beginning and end of track).

go to Special > Regions list > Markers to Regions

Then extract regions

Easy as pie

[Digital Over]

Open up your audio file, set ur cursor to scub, find the 1st beat of your mix, scub to where the kick is, hit "M" for placing marker, and do that for each of your mixes.....once all ur markers are place, go back to the beginning of your session, double click, CTRL "X" to cut, ALT "N" for new audio file, CTRL "P" to paste into the new file, save as, and repeat for the rest...wouldn't hurt to put a fade in & out at the beginning and end of each new file to smoothen out the transitions, like really quick fades, just by about 10-20 samples, just enough to act as your own pseudo cross fade if u will. Play around w/ it. Great program for mastering, I use it all the time. :)

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by dabbler

hit "M" in soundforge to drop markers. double click between each marker to highlight songs, and drag into a new window. save each song

follow this advice, this is the best way to do it. i dont know what everyone eles is talking about.

i love soundforge, infact i keep a pc next to my powermac just so i can use soundforge. its my all time fav audio app...

[Infidel]

I don't see why you should drag each track into a seperate window. Turning markers to regions and extracting regions saves each track seperately for you. Unless I misread something, it just seems like you're making more work for yourself if you drag each section into a seperate window to save it.

[tim-c]

ya prety much press M and u'l figure it out, wel u proly already have =) SF kix ass!

[G3N3R4L]

yeah i got it.. it is really easy.. just a matter of getting familiar with the new program

thanks everyone.

[Digital Over]

Originally Posted by Infidel

I don't see why you should drag each track into a seperate window. Turning markers to regions and extracting regions saves each track seperately for you. Unless I misread something, it just seems like you're making more work for yourself if you drag each section into a seperate window to save it.

Nope you read it right....as soon as you've seperated/cut/etc something you're going to get a direct square wave from your cut....if you place your markers down, extract into seperate audio files, and put the SMALLEST fade at the end of your region, that will essentially act as an "Auto Zero Cross" tool, therefore eliminating the square wave pop which is inevitable if you're just going to leave it as is....the auto zero cross is a tool often used in Pro Tools and is a VST tool used in Cubase (if Im not mistaken) for the same application, just more flexible to use by this approach (from my past experience)....

Essentially it just comes down to what you want verus how much time you want to put into it...I'm pretty maticulous with my stuff, so I don't mind spending the extra time and diddling with it a tad.

[dabbler]

^^^^^ uhhhh, you just need to drop the markers AT a point close to the zero cross. I've never had pops on my cd's, and never faded anything.

[Digital Over]

^^

Depends, sure sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, (if its not...you're going to get a pop, without question, it'll just depend on how loud it is for you to hear it) totally depends on your mix, but GENERALLY, from what engineers who've been mixing, mastering, engineering for 25+ years have been telling me, when chopping digital audio, especially from batch sets, to be careful of pops and blaps, etc, not saying someones mix is going to always required to chop right at the zero cross, maybe it's not, hence the prev. post....just giving the postee as much valued info as I can help out with...

[dabbler]

dude. i do wave editing for a living. i spend most days doing exactly that, dropping markers to cut waves up, reverse parts of songs etc. there is always a way to do it without a fade.

[dabbler]

actually, i guess there is one time where a fade would be needed. if you had to place a marker at a point where its a lot of near silence, then you would hear the pop. but the trick is to make sure you place the marker on the attack of something in the file. right at the start of a kick or snare, at the zer point, and then you won't hear anything.

for my last mix i made edits of nearly every tune on the entire mix, looping good parts and removing bad parts, before even mixing the set, then did the same type of editing for dropping the markers for cutting it up into seperate tracks, and i had no clicks. all told i would say there would is at LEAST 100 different places in that set that i had dropped markers. It just comes down to being detail oriented. some people are lazy and cut wherever.