Using Sound Forge within Sonar X2

guitardood


Two questions.  Are you on 64-bit Windows?  What did you put for the EXEPath in your registry mod?

Best,
guitardood

scook


I do not believe that it is because Sound Forge is 32bit and SONAR is 64bit. Sound Forge 9 which is 32bit works properly when called from 64bit SONAR X2a running on Win7 here. All I could suggest is to review the registry edit, verify the Type is WaveEditor. A newer free alternative that has been reported to work is http://www.wavosaur.com/

isingit


http://www.cakewalk.com/S...reader.aspx/2007013099

Right here on Cakewalk.com. Just follow this instruction set.

isingit


Thanks, I wish I could be less of a computer geek and get down to making music. I wish I could just ring up the producer (Phil Ramone\Jeff Lynn or whatever) and say, "Get the boys (and girls) together, man, we're going into the Seriously Modron studio for the next 12 weeks to record our next album and you're producing it... man! Call the caterer too!"! 
Here I'm constantly researching, downloading, tweeking and installing, like  "WinHlp32.exe" so my softwares don't act up when I should be playing guitars, keyboards, drums and putting vocals on tracks. Making music not always tweeky geeky on my damn computers. 
Sorry for the rant. I know this is the way it has to be done.. to save money (or lack of it) I must sacrifice my time and effort. 

Next I need to make an older MIDI keyboard (like Alesis QS7.1) into my MIDI Controller for modules and VST's, because I can't go and buy a new modern USB controller keyboard right now and must make due with what I've got. For this I will open another topic if or when needed. It's good to know I can turn here for some germane help. Thank you all for your input. 

guitardood

When I listen to an album like McCartney and think about what was accomplished with a four-track, I get very depressed looking at all the gear I've got and not putting out a single track.  Shame!

isingit


AHHHHHhhhhhhhh.....! Bub and others, your posts made me recheck my registry.
I looked again at the values I had set in the registry. I made one tiny little mistake. In the "Type" path I had inserted "Wave Editor" instead of "WaveEditor" (no space between Wave and Editor.. and of course no italics either).  I fixed that.
I just selected a whole audio track in Sonar and then when I clicked Sound Forge, it opened and had the clip in the window and I altered the clip, saved it and it DID save it in Sonar. The message box appeared in Sonar that said in my case "Take 3\8 has changed. Would you like to replace it?" It did replace the processed clip correctly .......................  
Now that's more like it!


Unless there is a future gotcha glitch it seems Sonar X2 64bit CAN use Sound Forge 7.0 within the program as a Utility and it's wave editor! 

I had read that SF 7.0 would not work on Windows 7 but I had to try anyway.
There's so little current info on SF 7.0 anyway most Google searches only result in "download this crack" or reference SF 10 Pro, which is less than helpful.

One little glitch now (I'm sure there will be more) is sometimes I am processing a clip and then click a different tab in the process (happened using Wave Hammer) or perhaps after saving the file, and a "Windows Help and Support" window will open up explaining why Windows Help is unavailable for this program. It is an annoyance to have to close it out before moving on. Apparently I need to install WinHlp32.exe . I'm reticent to do that as it may cause even more problems.  If it gets too annoying I will try it. 

I'm liking this Cakewalk forum. Lots of good people willing to toss you some help.

I hope others with this problem can benefit from this.