Topic: Another Sound Forge 7 question

[utahtaper]

I have Sound Forge 7 and when I press record a smaller box opens and I press arm and the recording begins. It records fine but the smaller box stays there and I want to know if you can minimize or close the box so it will display the actual waves and the level meter?
Thx in advance...

[utahtaper]

Is there any recording software that does show the waves as they are written?

I know when you playback in SF7 it shows the waves and a level meter simultaneously.

[AdamZ]

Is there any recording software that does show the waves as they are written?

I know when you playback in SF7 it shows the waves and a level meter simultaneously.

I may be remembering differently but audacity that you find at sourceforge.net or .com shows the waves in chunks as they are written along with the leveles. I tried it once but dont recall if it worked with the VX2. Maybe a new update there. Let me know how it goes...
AdamZ

[utahtaper]

Is there any recording software that does show the waves as they are written?

I know when you playback in SF7 it shows the waves and a level meter simultaneously.

I may be remembering differently but audacity that you find at sourceforge.net or .com shows the waves in chunks as they are written along with the leveles. I tried it once but dont recall if it worked with the VX2. Maybe a new update there. Let me know how it goes...
AdamZ

Is Audacity a plug in?

[millhouse412]

i think cd wave may allow you to see them being written but i haven't used that for recoding in a while so i may be wrong

[nic]

i think cd wave may allow you to see them being written

cdwave does, SF doesnt, which is weird since Vegas does(and Vegas uses the SF engine)...

[mmedley.]

i think cd wave may allow you to see them being written

cdwave does, SF doesnt, which is weird since Vegas does(and Vegas uses the SF engine)...

Correct. The only thing that irks me about Vegas is that there is no way around the 2 gig file limit that I have found. SF will record past that and allow saving in w64 file format. Vegas will only render wav > w64. Is there maybe something I am missing in Vegas?

[Wiesel]

Adobe Audition does also show the waveforms while they're recorded...

[BC]

i think cd wave may allow you to see them being written

cdwave does, SF doesnt, which is weird since Vegas does(and Vegas uses the SF engine)...

Correct. The only thing that irks me about Vegas is that there is no way around the 2 gig file limit that I have found. SF will record past that and allow saving in w64 file format. Vegas will only render wav > w64. Is there maybe something I am missing in Vegas?

That is strange, I run vegas 2.0 and it will automatically record the file as a .w64 if it is over the 2GB limit, for smaller files it will save as a .wav file.
What do you mean by "Vegas will only render wav > w64"?

[nic]

That is strange, I run vegas 2.0 and it will automatically record the file as a .w64 if it is over the 2GB limit, for smaller files it will save as a .wav file.
What do you mean by "Vegas will only render wav > w64"?

techinically, Vegas doesnt save as .wav....(at least when mixing down a multitrack)
you have to file> render> .wav

normally, when you 'save' in Vegas, all it does is save a project file as .veg

[mmedley.]

I ran a test at home with Vegas 5 running 4 tracks (2 stereo) from my vxpcket 440. I let it reocrd and it appeared that when it got to 2 gig limit on each stereo track that it quit (~1.8 gigs) It froze my machine. The files were definitely wav files though. I have not tested creating a project and saving them as w64 files (much like a template) then opening and start recording that way, so that is on the agenda. I know Vegas supports w64 files though. There is a little check box in preferences to enable file support via w64 for larger files but nothing about recording directly to w64. I need to work with it more though. I might roll back to an earlier version of Vegas as well to test.

wav > w64. It appears that Vegas 5 records in wav and the only way to get w64 files is to render the wavs to w64. Sorry for the lack of explanation earlier.

What I am doing is opening Vegas, adding 2 stereo tracks, assign each of the tracks to an input on the soundcard and arming both for recording. Hit record and go from there.

When I save the project as a veg file, it still shows the recorded files as wav files. I will double check though and make sure. I was just curious if I was missing a preference setting somewhere? Maybe my comp just froze up coincidentally when each track reached 1.8 gigs. Which could also be the case. I know SF will record forever and you can save it into whatever format you like, just seems Vegas is not as friendly with the options.

Thanks for the help guys. T's to you all.