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Title: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: dactylus on July 04, 2007, 11:24:59 AM
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
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: F.O.Bean on July 04, 2007, 11:35:32 AM
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
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Gordon on July 04, 2007, 11:46:54 AM
a simple copy and paste of the second wav at the very end of the first will work just fine.
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: dactylus on July 04, 2007, 11:58:26 AM
Thanks guys

+T
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Jhurlbs81 on July 11, 2007, 02:46:41 PM
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
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Gordon on July 11, 2007, 03:01:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: sleepypedro on July 12, 2007, 06:44:24 AM
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.
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Jhurlbs81 on July 12, 2007, 09:19:06 PM
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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?

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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



Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Gordon on July 12, 2007, 09:35:13 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Jhurlbs81 on July 12, 2007, 10:41:57 PM
Good to know, man. +T
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: dunebug81 on July 12, 2007, 11:31:44 PM
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
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: dactylus on July 13, 2007, 05:03:39 PM

Cutting and pasting worked fine - no problems whatsoever!!

another round of +Ts

 :headphones:


Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: gratefulphish on July 15, 2007, 10:31:01 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: Gordon on July 16, 2007, 12:50:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: Merging Wav files with Sound Forge
Post by: dactylus on July 16, 2007, 06:29:34 AM
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...

 :)