Vegas vs. Sound Forge

eopco wrote on 11/30/2002, 7:28 PM

I have recently recorded music for a classical CD. It involves many re-takes and will require a tremendous amout of editing. What would be better for the job. Vegas 3.0 or Sound Forge 6. I currently own VV3 and not Sound Forge. The client will probably want to make changes to the edits, weeks after the fact. I used Sound Forge years ago and hated it. It was slow, slow, slow. Any insight would be appreciated before plunking down the $$$ for Sound Forge 6.0.

Thanks
Rich
EOP Recording Co

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Randy Brown wrote on 12/1/2002, 11:01 AM

Hey Rich,
Any audio editing I need to do in VV3, I open in Sound Forge ( I prefer Sonar because I'm more familiar w/ it but Sonar doesn't seem to be able to read the files). I've never noticed Sound Forge 6 being slow though (AMD Athlon 1.73 ghz, 512 DDR, 7200 rpm Maxtor).
Randy

Rednroll wrote on 12/1/2002, 11:37 AM

Sound Forge "Was" slow until the latest version 6.0., because it used destructive editing. Version 6.0 now uses non-destructive editing, the same way that Vegas Video also does and it is very quick now. If editing is your primary need for the app, then you are better off with Vegas. Vegas has many more editing features, like slip editing,overlap/crossfade events, fade edges,volume envelopes, snap to grid, and nudge editing. Most people will use sound Forge with Vegas, to do an "open copy in Sound Forge", to accomplish some of the minor features that Vegas doesn't do yet, like "reverse audio","remove DC offset", "normalize (this can be done within Vegas)". If your idea of editing involves just being able to do simple cut and pasting without an easy way to move an event after the paste, then sound forge will work for you, but it sounds like this method was painful for you in the past, so go with Vegas.

Randy Brown wrote on 12/1/2002, 11:49 AM

Hey Rednroll,
Maybe you can tell me why I export audio to Sound Forge then...oh wait, now I remember...to normalize (nothing happened when I right clicked a clip in VV3 and selected normalize). It was only a couple of days ago that I learned how to normalize in VV3. I'm about to make myself a giant post-it note that reads "YOU NO LONGER NEED TO EXPORT AUDIO TO SOUND FORGE!!!" Thanks for reminding me : )
Randy

Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/1/2002, 2:29 PM

Rich,

Normally my answer to your type of question s that Vegas is a multitrack recorder, and Sound Forge is an editor.

However what I suspect you will be doing is more 'track assembly', and will likely be easiest acheived my placing all your segments on different Vegas tracks, and sliding them around to finally mount them in running order, with volume envelopes, etc.

You still may need to pop out to Forge for some operations, but primary Vegas is your best bet.

geoff

joshez wrote on 12/4/2002, 5:45 PM

Since we're on the topic... I can not figure out how to edit trach chanels separatelly. For example select small portion and reverse the phase on one chanel.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Joe

Chienworks wrote on 12/4/2002, 5:50 PM

joshez: are you trying to do this in Vegas or in Sound Forge?

joshez wrote on 12/5/2002, 5:49 PM

In Vegas.

Cold wrote on 12/5/2002, 10:00 PM

Stereo or mono track? For a mono track split the beginning and end points of the section you want to process right click the selection use the switches. For Stereo its probably better to deal with it in sound forge. Steve