Audio sculpting in X1

I've gone through the manual and Scott's new book but I can't find anything on graphic editing of wave files. I can cut out segments and move them around but what I want to do is directly manipulate the audio waveforms. A good example would be to take a transient that is a little hot and simply erase the clipping.  I was at a studio the other day and the engineer was doing on his DAW. He had an eraser tool for trimming and other tools to stretch time and amplitude. Is this possible in Sonar?? So far I've only used Sonar as a digital tape recorder but I want to do more.

(note: that link was Reaally Old, sorry about that... some of it still applies though)

Which Sony Sound Forge are we talking about here? Not the one that's over £300 hopefully?? I see there's another Sound Forge for £44.

http://www.sonycreativeso...com/soundforgesoftware

edjy,

Vvocal has always worked fine here as it has for many of the posters in the forum link you provided.

I'm assuming you don't have X1 Producer? Or some version of Sonar that doesn't included Vvocal? Otherwise you could simply try it out. Like I said it works here but may not be as powerful or flexible as you, or the OP are looking for.

Samplitude incorporates a full-featured destructive wave editor and complete CD mastering. 

Also, Cubase (I think) has a rudimentary one built-in as well. 

ampfixer


I've gone through the manual and Scott's new book but I can't find anything on graphic editing of wave files. I can cut out segments and move them around but what I want to do is directly manipulate the audio waveforms. A good example would be to take a transient that is a little hot and simply erase the clipping.  I was at a studio the other day and the engineer was doing on his DAW. He had an eraser tool for trimming and other tools to stretch time and amplitude. Is this possible in Sonar?? So far I've only used Sonar as a digital tape recorder but I want to do more.

If you were to record your material better with proper levels you wouldn't need to edit the transients.

F@ker


ouch!

 You're right, I didn't mean it to sound so harsh.

John
As you are a reaper user how does your posting here offer any useful information?

It offers the useful information that I, for one, am informing myself that everying with Sonar is as it is with other DAW's - they all have aspects that don't work intermittently, and I would very much like to avoid as much unecessary technicians work as possible. I am looking at getting a different DAW and if you happen to visit the Reaper forum, you'd find out it was for the same kind of reasons.

It would have been just as well if you had simply put forward a positive oppinion on the issue.

This is what usually happens on forums and it's how people help to orientate themselves amongst a mass of corporate "buy me because I'm the right thing" kind of publicity. That's all really.  :)

Yeah, Ok, V-Vocal MIGHT do what you want, providing you're dealing with a monphonic track and not a stereo one.

But this isn't what VV was designed for, and you're far better off sticking either a track volume envelope over the offending transient and pull it down there or by using a clip gain envelope, which does pretty much the same thing except it operates at clip level, not track.

HTH