An overview of Sound Forge Pro

The Sound Forge Pro window is divided into five main areas that allow you to edit multiple sound files at once while providing easy access to the tools you need.

The main toolbar

 

If you want to hide the toolbar, choose View > Hide Toolbar. If you want to restore the toolbar, choose ViewShow Toolbar.

The editing toolbar

Showing or hiding the editing toolbar

Choose ViewShow Editing Toolbar to show the Editing toolbar, which you can customize to include frequently used functions.

When the toolbar is visible, choose ViewHide Editing Toolbar to hide it.

Customizing the editing toolbar

If you want to hide the toolbar, choose View > Hide Editing Toolbar.

If you want to customize the contents of the Editing toolbar, choose ViewCustomize Editing Toolbar. You can then drag buttons from the button palette to add them to the toolbar or drag buttons from the toolbar to the palette to remove them.

Add spaces and separators as needed to group related buttons. Spring spaces allow you to align buttons or groups of buttons. For example, if you added three buttons to the editing toolbar with a spring space before and after the second button, button 1 would be left justified, button 2 would be centered, and button 3 would be right justified.

When the Customize Editing Toolbar palette is displayed, you can drag buttons on the toolbar to change their position.

If you want to clear the contents of the toolbar, choose ViewReset Editing Toolbar.

To close the Customize Editing Toolbar palette, click Done.

Control-click a button and choose Icon and Text, Icon Only, or Text Only to choose whether you want to display icons and text labels in the editing toolbar.

The left pane

By default, the left pane displays the Media Browser tool. You can use the Media Browser to find files on your computer. For more information, see "Opening a file."

Click the Show or hide the left pane button to toggle the pane's display.

The editor

The center of the Sound Forge Pro window is dedicated to editing your sound files.

When you open a file, its waveform is displayed here.

When you open multiple files in tabs, the editor controls allow you to display multiple files at once in a single tabbed view, a horizontal tabbed view, or a vertical tabbed view. For more information, see "Opening multiple files in the editor."

The right pane

By default, the right pane displays the Channel Meters, Plug-In Chain, and Plug-In Chooser views.

For more information, see "Monitoring peak levels," "Adding effects to a plug-in chain," or "Processing audio."

Click the Show or hide the right pane button to toggle the pane's display.

You can rearrange tools within a pane by dragging the heading to a new position, or you can change a tool's placement by dragging it between the right and left panes.

The bottom pane

The bottom pane displays the File Properties, Regions List, Summary Information, Record, and Statistics views.

For more information, see "Viewing and editing file properties," "The Regions List," "Viewing summary information," "Statistics," or "The Record tool."

Click the Show or hide the bottom pane button to toggle the pane's display.