Hi Chris, One way of doing what you want in Sound Forge is to do the following.
1. Record all of your clips on both channels as normal. 2. Convert to mono if the left and right channels contain different things (i.e. are in stereo) and you want a combination of both channels to appear in one. 3. Open a new file and create a file of silence which is longer than any of the sections you wish to mute. 4. Copy this new file to the clipboard with Ctrl+a and ctrl+c. 5. Switch back to the original file with ctrl+f6. 6. As you know, pressing tab cycles between left channel, right channel and both. If you want to mute the left channel, tab until you only hear the left channel and select the section of recording you wish to mute using the i and o keys. I'm sure you know how to do this. 7. From the edit menu, select paste special and overwrite. This will overwrite only as much of the left channel as you have selected with the silence from the other file. You will get a warning about copying two channels to one, but just select OK. You can probably avoid this warning if you record your silence file in mono. 8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 as above for the right channel. I hope this helps. Regards, Barry Chapman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:55 AM Subject: Re: selecting only one channel for a sound in sound forge 8 Hi Well, I atempted this, and either I'm doing something wrong, or sound forge is misbehaving. I think what needs to happen is the source files i have need to be in one channel only, but again, there's the rub, i'm not sure how to do that. In this instance, the production would sound something like this... you would hear a sound in the left channel *only* and then you would hear a voice in both channels, followed by a sound that appears in the right channel *only* So you get that kind of effect where it bounces all over the place. I know writing it out doesn't do it justice, but that's what it would sound like. What happens when I use the tab key and the sound only plays through one channel, it only plays through that channel as long as it's set that way. I basically need to take 2 of these sound clips, and mute one channel in each of them. I hope I've explained this right? Thanks. At 01:47 AM 4/9/2008, you wrote: >Press tab, the first press selects the left channel, the second press >selects the right channel. Pressing a third time selects both again. If you >with to highlight the entire channel, don't hit control-A, hit >control-shift-end, if at the beginning or control-shift-home if you're at >the end. > >Curtis Delzer >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:26 AM >Subject: selecting only one channel for a sound in sound forge 8 > > >Hi guys >I'm atempting to do some production work and I have this idea for >something but I'm not quite sure how to pull it off, so I'm hoping >one of you guys can assist me. > >As it says in the subject line, I'm using Sound Forge 8. I'm just not >able to afford version 9 at the moment so you know how it is, you >work with what you have. > >In this production, I have a bunch of short audio clips and i have no >problem mix pasting them all together on top of a music bed, that part's >easy. >What I want to do however, and I'm pretty sure SF 8 can do this but >I'm not sure? but what I want to do is take one of these sound clips, >set it to only play on the left channel, and then just after that >one, i want another one to play only on the right channel. I've been >through all the options, and a friend of mine suggested maybe using >mute, because in an earlier version, you can only mute one >channel. That's essentially what I need to do but I'm not sure >how. Even more curious is the fact that if I press the tab key once, >the sound of the file only goes through the left, then another press >of the tab key goes over to the right, and then a third press brings >us back to both channels. I would need to figure out how to get one >of these sounds to only play through one channel, so I hope this can >be done. i do have other recording programs like Goldwave and Studio >Recorder so I'm all set with the actual programs, but just need to >know how to do this. > >Thanks for any thoughts! > > > > > > > > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. 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