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Seymour_Butz_Please
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2013/12/08 11:38:38 (permalink)

How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu?

I just upgraded to the latest X2 patch and I've lost SoundForge from my utilities menu.
 
What's the easiest way to get it back?
 
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    scook
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 11:46:51 (permalink)
    Strange, I have never lost a Utilities menu entry when updating or upgrading. Check the entry in your registry. Here are the instructions for adding an editor to the Utilities menu https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013099
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 15:27:14 (permalink)
    + 1 to what scook said.  The only time I hadt it disappear from my menu is when i went from 32 but to 64-bit.
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 16:15:52 (permalink)
    I've tried the directions from scook's link a few times now; I can now select a clip in Sonar and click on Sound Forge in the menu.  Sound Forge opens, but it doesn't open the clip (or any other clip).
     
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 16:39:56 (permalink)
    It is almost always a registry error, double check the registry Type entry, it should be WaveEditor exactly anything else will launch the program but not pass the file.
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 18:37:41 (permalink)
    I can confirm. I tried this with Sound Forge, and had a space in "Wave Editor;" the clip wouldn't load. As soon as I changed the registry entry to "WaveEditor," it worked fine. Thanks scook!

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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2013/12/08 19:21:35 (permalink)
    You are welcome, it is a subtle error that has cause more than one thread on the subject. With any luck Seymour will get his editor issue sorted out.
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/11 14:41:42 (permalink)
    After an X3 and OS re-install onto a new SSD drive, I am trying to set up Soundforge 11 in my utilities menu by following the instructions on: https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013099 - when I click File>Export, I do not have an 'Export Registry File window'. I have Audio, Video, Midi Groove Clip, OMF and Track Template options only?
    Update ......... OK, instructions are a bit unclear. I see they meant File>Export from within regedit and NOT Sonar. Should have said guys. Still struggling to run Soundforge 'Tool not found'. If I remember from my previous install it has something to do with spaces in the path, either needed or not needed?
     
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/11 14:49:46 (permalink)
    petgod1
    After an X3 and OS re-install onto a new SSD drive, I am trying to set up Soundforge 11 in my utilities menu by following the instructions on: https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013099 - when I click File>Export, I do not have an 'Export Registry File window'. I have Audio, Video, Midi Groove Clip, OMF and Track Template options only?
    Sonar X3e build 352.
    Windows 10.


    see above comments
     
    scook
    It is almost always a registry error, double check the registry Type entry, it should be WaveEditor exactly anything else will launch the program but not pass the file.

     
    did you try this ?

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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/11 15:07:52 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby FCCfirstclass 2016/08/12 17:24:19
    You could try the tool I wrote for this purpose called SONARToolEditor. It can be found in the OP http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3392713

    It can also be found in the utilities section here
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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/11 20:20:03 (permalink)
    I think they should bring this back without using a registry hack.  That utility didn't work for and it should have but I kept a reg file from X1 and it worked.
     I have no clue why they took this out.  Many DAWs still have this feature.
     

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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/12 11:02:08 (permalink)
    Yea, why we need to hack a registry to get a simple functionality is beyond me. 

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    Re: How do I get Soundforge back into my utilities menu? 2016/08/13 15:10:22 (permalink)
    Thanks Scook. After I cleaned my Sound Forge registry entry your tool worked great. Good job!
    After checking the registry to see what your tool had done differently, I saw that I'd had an incomplete path. When I checked the SF program's file properties, it showed Location C:\........\Sound Forge Pro 11.0  but I still needed to finish the path with... \Forge110.exe.
    I agree with KiteKrazy1, the change after X1 was unnecessary. Anything that requires fiddling with the registry is just so damned dangerous.

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