Hi, I have Sonar X2 on my newly built DAW. I can't afford another damn thing right now so I need to see if I can get some of my older software working friendly with it. I have Sound Forge 7.0 .  As a wave editor I like it but it's an old version. I did the registry hack to have it show in "Utilities" in Sonar. That's done. 
   Now, I "select" an audio clip or portion of one in a Sonar track and point my mouse up to "Utilities", then click the "Sound Forge 7.0" there and.. it opens Sound Forge... but... there is no selected clip included in Sound Forge window, it's empty. 
This is something an extended search has found no answer to but only several people looking for answers. Probably because most people have more current software but as I said I'm strapped with other bills right now and must try to work w this old program. I don't want to/can't buy a new wave editor program so that is not a solution. I do think a wave editor is pretty essential for a serious DAW though. 

    Sound Forge 7.0b is a 32 bit program. I am working with X2 64 bit on Windows 7 64 bit. I don't know if that is a problem. 
I used SF 7 stand alone on this DAW and it did process a file just fine. (a little glitch happened but it didn't affect audio and I'll fix that later I hope)
Has anyone had this happen to them using any version of Sound Forge within Sonar? Did you fix it and if so can you tell me what to do?


Thanx

oooh, where is this registry change to get SF to show in Utilities?

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

Best,
guitardood

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

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

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/

guitardood


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

Best,
guitardood

Answer;   1 Yes.  
                2. C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Sound Forge 7.0\forge70.exe
I arrived at this by simply looking into my Explorer window and seeing where Sound Forge was installed and where.


Thanks for answering.

Just another guess, are you running SONAR as administrator?

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/

Thanks.
It's not that SF 7 isn't opening from the Utilities in Sonar but that the clip is not opened with it. 

scook


Just another guess, are you running SONAR as administrator?

Well, I am the only user on this DAW and I do have to sign in to load Windows so I'm assuming I am an Administrator. According to Users in Control Panel I am Administrator, Password Protected. So...
I just restarted, signed in, and started Sonar as Administrator (right click) and then highlighted a porton of an audio track, went to Utilities\Sound Forge........ but the same thing.... no clip... blank.  Thanks for trying scook.

Odd that the clip doesn't open. What does open? Just Sound Forge with no internal windows? Or do you get an empty wave file or something like that?