Sony sound forge 2012 portable#
Initially my samples were just the old 28 second file banks from my Roland MS-1 sampler, where I’d used it as a portable field recorder. In my recordings I flaunt the oddness of my sounds. Because of the flexibility of digital audio it has become a very common and almost invisible art at times. Professionally the field is known as sound design, which sort of overlaps with foley, and ranges from people making unique sounds for film and radio (think of the sound effects in Star Wars or Jurassic Park) to people designing unique soundbanks for digital musical instruments. What I really use Sound Forge for, and need it for, is transforming ordinary sounds. To maintain the pacing of the LP I would do something similar for large silences between tracks, selecting and silencing most of it while fading in or out at the ends of the songs. Some of the big pops could be removed by zooming in so tightly that the offending noise would take up the whole screen, be selected, and reduced to silence.
Sony sound forge 2012 install#
If it came with Noise Reduction I couldn’t install it so I relied on EQ to minimize the crackle of old vinyl.
Initially I only used Sound Forge for digitizing my LPs. A couple years before I went legal, toward the end of 2005 or early 2006 with version 7, they had been purchased by Sony. In those days Sound Forge was a product of Sonic Foundry in Madison, Wisconsin (I remember driving past their building once, though I have no recollection of exactly where it was, but it was cool that it was part of my physical and social world). But it was here that I got a taste for working in Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and Sound Forge (I think it was version 4.5), all very expensive, heavy duty programs. In 1999, when I got my first computer, someone I knew, who didn’t believe in paying for much of anything, gave me a couple of CD-Rs loaded with various programs, both audio and graphic. Both in terms of my process and the history of my development in the audio medium it is the first program I use. For the type of work I do, where I’m often mangling ordinary sounds, an audio editor is essential. I’m not saying that to plug a product-there are plenty of alternatives, some of them free. Without Sony’s Sound Forge I might not have started making audio on a computer. From there the concept and possibilities have grown to include time stretching or condensing, adding pretty much all the effects available to the engineer or musician (EQ, delay, reverb, distortion, filters, et cetera), as well as recording, file conversion, mastering, and publication. You’d use it for creating fades and crossfades, or adjusting the volume of a recording.
Sony sound forge 2012 software#
It was the software you’d use to shorten a song or combine two songs. Basically it was what you’d do with a razor blade and some tape to magnetic audio tape in earlier years. At its original and most rudimentary form, that meant cutting and pasting sections of an audio file.
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