Beginner - Advanced Level Users.
This is a thorough guide to Sound Forge 4.5, music editing software by Sonic Foundry, used for music creation, designing sound, professional audio postproduction, and multimedia authoring.
The author covers topics for beginners such as the basics of digital audio and start up. Information in these sections includes latest updates of Sound Forge, how to register software, how to set up your system for better performance, how to find help when you need it, and how to customise your software.
The book thoroughly covers more complex topics, such as recording and playback; special effects (including equalisation techniques, delay tactics, chorus creation and dynamics); how to use additional audio tools such as sound synthesis; and using Sound Forge with MIDI. The author also instructs user in how to produce for multimedia and the Web, and how to export to MP3.
In addition, special appendices discuss how to use Sound Forge with ACID, how to burn files to a CD, how to back up files and Sound Forge resources on the Web.
