Displaying wave color

Brett_narrator wrote on 9/5/2021, 6:54 PM

Hello,

Actually been working in SF since it was Sony SF8. In 15, and now an issue displaying the wave color for an editing selection. Wave color is bright green on gray background, the edit selection becomes blue wave with white background. However, as soon as i add an effect plugin (third-party, or SF) the selection background color changes to back to green, matching the wave color - which, too, reverts to green. The wave becomes completely masked. Obviously this interferes with editing the fades and adjusting the selection window. Not an issue before. What has changed? Help, please. Thank you.

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rraud wrote on 9/6/2021, 10:20 AM

Welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users forum @Brett_narrator

You can change the look of selected timeline and in "Options> Preferences> Display" and choose "Wave Selection" set of parameters.

Enabling a single plug-in selects the entire timeline by default if no data is selected prior. I am not sure about SF 8 or 9, but the same behavior exists in SFP-10 though 15. Alternately, you can use the non-destructive 'timeline chainer' which will not highlight the data, To apply, 'Save' or 'Save as' will write the Fx to the audio.
You could also select a small segment of the timeline and move the cursor to the desired playback position to preview, then 'right-click' the plug-in window and choose "Select all data" prior to executing the process.

btw, I am sure about the behavior or settings in AS (Audio Studio). You should state which version of Sound Forge you are using (AS or Pro) . Read the 'Sticky' at the head for the main Sound Forge forum page.
 

Brett_narrator wrote on 9/7/2021, 3:16 AM

Hello rraud,

Thank you for helping clarify how to make the most of these posts. I am running the latest SF 15 Build 64. My computer is a HP windows 10 PC with 11th gen core i7, nvidia GeForce 1660 super.16 gb ram. Clarett interface.

As you can see in the screen shots, the wave selection flips from white to a green that matches the wave color. Odd. Definitely did not do this in previous SF 10. The plug-in chainer suggestion is a work around, but slows my editing efficiency. Any thoughts?

rraud wrote on 9/7/2021, 10:24 AM

Hi @Brett_narrator , the display settings menu are set different, you can try to duplicate them as close as possible by writing down the factors from the SF-8 version, however the display parameters have changed some since SF-8.

In "Options> Preferences> Display", experiment with the Wave: Window Selection and the Wave: Window Background parameters to get the desired appearance. To get a 'White' background for the selected data, set the 'Brightness" parameter to a high % factor.
FWIW, Keep a record of the desired parameter factors in case you wish to duplicate the scheme on another PC, there is no easy way the save the settings.

Additionally, If you change the (relatively new) "Interface type" setting to 'White' at the top of the same menu .. that may give it more of the legacy version look.