Routing Channels To Hardware Outputs; Opening And Editing Multichannel Audio Files - Sony Pro 10 User Manual

Routing channels to hardware outputs

If you're working with multichannel files and have a sound card with multiple outputs, Sound Forge provides you with a great deal of
flexibility in routing the channels to the outputs on your sound card: you can route each channel to a separate output, or you can route
all the stereo pairs to a single set of outputs to simulate a stereo downmix.
The Hardware Meters window displays a meter and gain fader for each enabled output port. For more information, see
hardware meters on page 111.
You can change channel assignments from the Audio tab in the Preferences dialog or the Channel Meters window. Changing the setting
in either location updates your preferences and affects all open data windows. For information about using the Audio tab of the
Preferences dialog to enable and map channels, see
To change a channel's output device using the Channel Meters window, click the channel number and choose a new output port from
the menu.

Opening and editing multichannel audio files

If you've used Sound Forge to edit stereo files before, you already know everything you need to know to edit multichannel files.
You can open multichannel audio files just like any other supported media type. For more information, see
When you open the file, you'll notice that the data window displays the channels as stereo pairs:
You can then edit the file just as you would any mono or stereo file.
Click the Minimize button (
Hold Shift while clicking a Minimize button (
Tip:
You can use the Display tab in the Preferences dialog to change the colors used to represent each channel. For more information, see
Display tab on page 314.
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Audio tab
) to reduce the height of individual channels, or click the Restore button (
) to minimize all channels except the one you clicked.
on page 322.
Using the
Getting media files on page 55.
) to restore a channel's height.