isingit

guitardood


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

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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.

Only other suggestion is to check the value you used for the Type in the registry.  It should be 'WaveEditor' (no spaces).
Maybe try tech support.  Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.


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guitardood

isingit


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

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

I ran in to this some time ago.

The Cakewalk link provided will get Sound Forge to show up, but it won't get it to automatically open a .wav file and edit it in Sound Forge. All that link will do is make it so you can open up Sound Forge from within Sonar.

This is the registry entry that I used back when I was running 8.0.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Tools Menu\Soundforge]
"MenuText"="Soundforge"
"StatusBarText"="Edit Waveforms in Soundforge"
"Type"="WaveEditor"
"Exepath"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Sony\\Sound Forge 9.0\\Forge90.exe"

When I tried to manually add this to my registry, it didn't work. I had to create a .reg file, and double click it and have it added in that way. Just create a .TXT file and rename it a .REG file. Make sure you have file extensions visible in Windows, otherwise you'll just be creating a file that shows filename.reg.txt. Make sure the path in the above registry entry has been changed to match your Sound Forge installation path.

I'm not sure if this will work with X2 ... but it's worth a try.

Make sure you create a registry backup before you do anything to your registry, that way if it doesn't work and causes trouble, you can restore it.

what Bub said. I am sure i made a post a year or so ago with a similar problem. I left it alone and then one day started from scratch and it worked.

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. 

Glad you got it worked out. I recall how frustrated I was and how relieved I was that it was one small typing fix. Never had the new glitch you have but I am using Sonar 10 and that may be why. There are many super helpful people on this board, including authors of popular books and tutorial videos and even some sound designers for cakewalk synths.

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. 

If the manual is in *.CHM format, there are a few programs out that can display CHM files and even a few that can convert it to PDF format if you wish.  I"ve got SF9, so sorry I don't remember the format for 7's help file.




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guitardood

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. 

isingit

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.

That's another crazy MS screwup.

I can't believe this has to be done, but I ran in to it too.

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. 

I hear ya.  Yesterday I went in the studio to find a better sounding b3 sample and re-record the B3 tracks on my current tune and got sidetracked for 5 hours with a flaky Chicken Systems Translator program converting all my Sample libs to MachFive format.   It has a batch-converter that apparently has a limit of how many samples can be converted in a batch  but the only indication of said limit is to crash in the middle of conversion.


Amazing how time flies on the geeky side of things, for me.  Though I will admit, sometimes in a creative dry spell (which I of course won't admit), I'll make excuses and tear apart something that I could have gotten by with as it was.   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!

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guitardood

EDIT: Didn't mean to dis the Translator guys.  For all it's bugs, Translator still the best sample translator I've found.