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Annoying Soundforge 7.0 problem

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  • 07-11-2007 10:21pm
    #1
    Masked Breton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    I have used Soundforge for a good while and I'm pretty familiar with it. However about a week ago I found a problem.

    When I save a piece of audio, e.g. two bars of music for use as a loop, the program inserts a small piece of silence at the beginning and at the end. This means it's useless as a loop. I studied all the options in the "Save as" dialog but can't see anything relevant. I reinstalled the program but still the same problem. Any idea how to fix this?


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    #2
    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Sounds weird. I haven't had such problems in Sound Forge. Are you using loop or region markers in the file? Are you opening the audio file with another application that might be inserting the silence? What format are you saving the files in? How long is the silence?

    If you can't solve the problem I can think of a workaround. Go to Special -> Edit Sample. Select Sustaining and click OK. You'll then see loop markers, move them to the beginning and end of the region you want looped. Save the file as WAV or AIFF. Depending on the DAW/playback sampler you are using, the loop might then be played back correctly even if the silence is inserted.


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    #3
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    should only do that if youre bouncing to mp3


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    Masked Breton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Masked Breton


    Helix wrote: »
    should only do that if youre bouncing to mp3

    Yes I am trying to save to mp3. I just saved to .wav instead and that worked fine. Is there no way to avoid this with .mp3?

    The silence is approx 0.020 seconds.

    The reason I'm avoiding .wav is because I was going to have this audio playing on a website (yes I know that's incredibly annoying).

    @Cornbb : I tried your idea but it didn't work unfortunately

    update: I just opened an old loop (it is .mp3 format). It also has the same amount of silence at both ends! It was not like that when I originally saved it because I would have noticed. At some point I must have changed a setting that's making this happen to all my .mp3s but I have no idea what


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    #5
    Helix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    dont think so unfortanately, the format writes a bit of silence at the start and end of tracks for some reason


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