Sound Forge Pro 18 not remembering save settings, plugin settings

Dan-Hicks wrote on 12/11/2024, 6:33 AM

Hi, I just recently updated to SF 18 from SF 14 and am having some issues. Previously, anytime I saved a file, the save settings would default to the "default" setting, that is to say, whatever the file itself was set to. Now, it doesn't do that. It chooses some other setting, which means that if I'm not paying attention, I'll end up converting my file to something I don't want. Is there a way to fix this? Also, last-used plugin settings aren't being remembered. So if I want to use the same settings repeatedly, I have to manually re-set them every time, even when I'm applying the processing several times in a row. How do I fix this? I'm also getting weird audio glitches during recording that I've never heard before, and only started happening when I switched to SF 18, so I don't think it's my audio interface or something else. I think it's SF 18 causing this. Anyway, help with any/all of these issues is appreciated, until then, I'm going back to SF 14.

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SP. wrote on 12/11/2024, 7:17 AM

@Dan-Hicks I believe there is the option to save the current settings as default in the file export dialog? You would need to enable/disabled that.

To my knowledge in newer Sound Forge versions, the plugin settings always revert back to the default if you don't save your last settings as a user preset.

Dan-Hicks wrote on 12/11/2024, 5:49 PM

Hi, I don't want to save the current settings as default, what I want is for sound forge to default to the settings of the current file i'm working with when i go to save it. so, for instance, if my file is at 24k/96, and i go to save it, it should default to save at 24k/96, rather than something else like 44.1k/16.

Russ-Shaw wrote on 4/23/2025, 3:05 PM

This bug is still active and it's driving me crazy. SF17 had this bug and has not been fixed in SF18. Do the devs actually test their products in real-world situations? Like yourself I have missed quite a few of these and managed to save out plenty of files in the wrong format and sometimes stereo to mono which is bonkers.

SP. wrote on 4/23/2025, 4:22 PM

@Russ-Shaw Have you tried saving your settings as a user preset?

Russ-Shaw wrote on 4/24/2025, 5:58 AM

Unfortunately, as the OP said, you can't solve this with a single saved preset. If I have a 48khz stereo file I want to the save settings to automatically be the same. If I have a 48khz mono file then I want to the save settings to default to that. No one preset can reflect the different file formats you may be saving. This never used to happen with earlier versions of SF before 17 (and I've been using SF for around 30 years now).

Try this, open a 44.1khz stereo file. Resample it to 48khz and now select 'Save As' from the file menu. What format is SF trying to save the file as? (remember it is now a 48khz stereo file you are trying to save). The 'Default Template' option no longer appears in the list BTW).