Topic: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge

[dactylus]

G'morning,

During a recent live performance taping session I had to perform a wav split on my mt 24/96 - Can I combine the two split wave files using Sound Forge 8 or 9 to create one seamless wav file for processing?  I have a reference manual but I could not find an answer to my question.  The Sound Forge "help" file was not at all helpful!!

thanks,

David

[F.O.Bean]

i think its almost exactly like wavelab. first open the first part of the wav as normal, and then go to 'edit' and then 'insert at end'. thats how wl does it. I havent used sf in a few years, but iu think its very similar for that function

[Gordon]

a simple copy and paste of the second wav at the very end of the first will work just fine.

[dactylus]

Thanks guys

+T

[Jhurlbs81]

You might want to trim the very end and beginning of the wav files with CDWav to avoid SBEs in the middle of the track.

Jesse

[Gordon]

You might want to trim the very end and beginning of the wav files with CDWav to avoid SBEs in the middle of the track.

Jesse

that doesn't happen.

[sleepypedro]

You might want to trim the very end and beginning of the wav files with CDWav to avoid SBEs in the middle of the track.

Jesse

that doesn't happen.

to clarify:  zeroes only get written to the tail of wav files during the CD burning process.  it does NOT happen when you're pasting together two wavs.  what jesse has suggested is actually a very bad idea that will break your seamless wav splits.

no offense at all, jesse, just needed to put that out there.

[Jhurlbs81]

to clarify:  zeroes only get written to the tail of wav files during the CD burning process.  it does NOT happen when you're pasting together two wavs.

Did not know that.  So does every wav start and end on a boundry?

that will break your seamless wav splits.

How do you get a seamless split on a MT? I thought the best we could do was ~6 seconds?

Jesse

[Gordon]

not sure but SBE's only come into play when tracking and burning.  so pasting a wave at the end of another wave will not cause a SBE. 

[Jhurlbs81]

Good to know, man. +T

[dunebug81]

you can also just drag and drop.  have both windows up (not full size) right click one wav 2 and drop it on wav one.  if you left click you can cycle thru a paste/crossfade/mix menu before you drop the file onto wav 1

[dactylus]

Cutting and pasting worked fine - no problems whatsoever!!

another round of +Ts

 

[gratefulphish]

I usually make sure that I zoom all the way in when I am doing the paste, because even when it looks like the cursor is at the end of the first file, when you zoom in, it can be a number of samples back. 

[Gordon]

I usually make sure that I zoom all the way in when I am doing the paste, because even when it looks like the cursor is at the end of the first file, when you zoom in, it can be a number of samples back. 

I just hit the right arrow key in wavelab and that brings the cursor to the very end of the file.  then paste   forget if you can do that in soundforge but I'm pretty sure you can.

[dactylus]

I usually make sure that I zoom all the way in when I am doing the paste, because even when it looks like the cursor is at the end of the first file, when you zoom in, it can be a number of samples back. 

I just hit the right arrow key in wavelab and that brings the cursor to the very end of the file.  then past   forget if you can do that in soundforge but I'm pretty sure you can.

Yes - soundforge has a similar option...