The Plug-In Chooser displays the plug-ins that are available on your computer. You can use the Plug-In Chooser to browse plug-ins and presets that you can use to process your audio. Processing is an offline operation: you need to apply the effect to commit it to your file.
If the Plug-In Chooser is not visible, you can select the Show or hide the right pane button or choose View > Plug-In Chooser. For more information, see "Arranging editing views."
The commands in the Process and Effects menus are not available in event-editing mode.
Select the sound data you want to process. If no data is selected, processing will be applied to the entire file.
When you're working with multichannel files, only the selected region in the selected channel is processed. Most functions can be applied to the individual or all channels. However, because the channels in a multichannel file must be equal in length, functions that affect the length of the data cannot be performed on individual channels.
For more information, see "Selecting data using the mouse."
Expand the Plug-In Chooser to display your plug-ins. You can click the heading to expand or collapse the plug-in list.
Choose a setting from the Filter drop-down list if you want to filter the list of plug-ins, or choose All to display all your plug-ins in the Plug-in Chooser.
If you want to search for a plug-in by keyword, type in the search box at the bottom of the Plug-In Chooser.
Click the Expand button next to a plug-in name to see the plug-in's presets.
Drag a preset to the waveform or Control-click a preset name and choose Process Selection from the shortcut menu.
You can drag a plug-in or preset from the Plug-In Chooser to an editor's tab to bring it to the foreground. For more information, see "Opening multiple files in the editor."
You can also choose a plug-in from the Process or Effects menu to add it to the current editor.
A new window opens where you can adjust the plug-in's controls.
Choose a preset from the Preset drop-down list or adjust the dialog controls as needed.
Click the Preview button to hear the effects of your processing settings.
If you want to hear the unprocessed signal, click the Plug-In Enable button at the top of the dialog to deselect it. Select the button again before clicking the Process button.
If a plug-in does not support bypass, the Plug-In Enable button is not available.
If you're working with plug-ins that create audio tails — such as reverb or delay — choose a command from the Tail drop-down list to specify how Sound Forge Pro will handle the tails:
Choose Ignore to ignore the tail. The effect will end abruptly at the end of the selection.
Choose Insert to insert the audio tail. All audio to the right of the tail will be moved over to accommodate the extra audio.
Choose Mix to mix the tail into the adjacent material. This is the most natural-sounding option.
Click the Process button to start processing.
During processing, a progress meter is displayed in the activity view at the top of the window. You can cancel the operation at any time by clicking the Cancel button.
The controls at the top of the plug-in window allow you to load and save presets.
When you edit a plug-in's settings, an asterisk (*) is appended to the preset name to let you know that the settings have been altered.
To save a new preset, click the Save As button and type a name in the Preset name box.
To replace an existing user preset, click the Save button .
If you want to process audio with multiple plug-ins, use the Plug-In Chain. Effects from the Plug-In Chain are previewed in real time when you play back a file and are applied when you save the file.
For more information, see "Adding effects to a plug-in chain."