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Subject:Help with "Silence" Posted by: doctorslim Date:2/28/2005 4:40:50 AM I'm trialing Sound Forge as a potential audio editor for an Audio Book project. One of the main tasks of the edit will be removing breaths from the recording. Is it possible to highlight the required section and silence it with one click rather than having to use the awkward keystroke sequence? Adobe Auditon has this feature as a right mouse click I think. Any help/advice greatly appreciated and apologies if this subject has come up previously, I did look in KBase but couldn't find anything.
Subject:RE: Help with "Silence" Reply by: Chienworks Date:2/28/2005 5:29:49 AM You can highlight the section by dragging the mouse across it, then right-mouse-button click and choose "Cut" from the popup menu. When i do this task i'll use the delete key rather than the right-mouse-button click method. I think it's a bit faster and it keep one hand on the mouse and the other on the delete key.
Subject:RE: Help with "Silence" Reply by: doctorslim Date:2/28/2005 6:40:40 AM Thanks for that but I don't actually want to cut it, I want to keep the timing the same by just silencing it, any ideas?
Subject:RE: Help with "Silence" Reply by: mpd Date:2/28/2005 6:50:03 AM Depending on how loud the breath is, noise gating / downward expansion may help some. Try the Soft Noise Gate preset under Effects -> Dynamics -> Graphic and play with the threshold. The noce thing about this is you can process the whole file with it, and then go back and clean up.
Subject:RE: Help with "Silence" Reply by: Sonic Date:2/28/2005 8:12:02 AM Assuming you are using the pro version, you might try using a volume envelope for this sort of thing. J.
Subject:RE: Help with "Silence" Reply by: rraud Date:2/28/2005 9:13:32 AM Gates can usually be heard "working" on spoken word material when there's no music or FX to mask it. Try a frequency dependant expander. (a frequency dependant expander/gate is not included with SF, you will have to find a third party plug, I use the Sonitus Ultrafunk expander/gate, but it's availabillity is unknown since Cakewalk bought the Sonitus plug-in series from Ultrafunk.) see below OR... -- Highlight the breath and use the volume control "Process> Volume" to drop it a few dBs, move to the next one, highlght and select "Ctrl.+Y" (Edit> Repeat) -- 2. Replace the breath with "Room Tone". Copy a pause, for instance between paragraphs with no breath noise, highlight the breath as above, right-click and select "Overwrite". (Edit> Paste Special) Unfortunatly either way is time consuming. Addendum: It seems Cakewalk HAS finally made the Sonitus Ultrafunk plug-ins available. The gate goes for $39 or the suite for $299. http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Sonitus/sonitus.asp In addition the FishPhones "Blockfish" expander has a key freg. adj. and is available free as well as the impressive Spitfish De-esser and Floorfish vca/opto compressor . One cavet though, one will need a VST wrapper or SF-8.0 for these plugs. http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5

Subject:Help with "Silence"

Posted by: doctorslim

Date:2/28/2005 4:40:50 AM

I'm trialing Sound Forge as a potential audio editor for an Audio Book project. One of the main tasks of the edit will be removing breaths from the recording. Is it possible to highlight the required section and silence it with one click rather than having to use the awkward keystroke sequence? Adobe Auditon has this feature as a right mouse click I think. Any help/advice greatly appreciated and apologies if this subject has come up previously, I did look in KBase but couldn't find anything.