SF 15 Won't Snap to Zero Crossing

William-Eimers wrote on 9/29/2022, 11:03 AM

First, thanks for all the help over the years.

When I first purchased SF15 and I was editing out a pop or small section of my audio, the cursor would snap to the zero crossing. I didn't set this up, but it was very useful. With the first upgrade, that stopped, and I can't see how to enable this. Under Options/Editing, I have checked "Snap to Zero Crossing Slope" set to "Any Crossing". No luck.

I have SF15 Build 161, 64 bit. I use a PC

Thanks...any help would be appreciated.

Bill Eimers

 

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rraud wrote on 9/29/2022, 12:30 PM

Hi @William-Eimers, there has been no Snapping or Zero-Crossing bug reports that I can recall i Sound Forge 16. It functions as it should in SFP-16.1.2, bld 55 (and AS-16.1, bld 47).
In the 'Options> Snapping' menu confirm, Enable and Zero Crossing are both enabled and disable the other items to make sure they are not interfering with the operation.


If it still does not work, you could try "Reset and clear cached data" in the 'File' menu. Be aware this will reset most of of your settings and customizations back to the factory defaults.

William-Eimers wrote on 9/29/2022, 1:34 PM

I don't have 16, I have 15.0

Maybe I'm not describing what is happening...when I click and drag a region on my audio file to delete or edit, I have to visually move the region/cursor to the zero crossing. As I said, in my first version of SF 15, it would always snap...wouldn't allow me to stop at any other spot.

I have enabled Options>Snapping and Zero Crossing...no effect.

And BTW this is true for both of my computers.

Bill

rraud wrote on 9/29/2022, 2:27 PM

@William-Eimers, do you have Sound Forge Pro or Audio Studio 15?
Does this behavior happen with PCM file and lossy types? (MP3, AAC for instance)
Does enable/disable 'Lock to Selection' have an affect?

I cannot duplicate the behavior in SFP-15 and do not currently have SFAS-15 installed to check.
Offhand, I can't think of another setting that would affect that behavior, but there may be.

William-Eimers wrote on 9/29/2022, 3:16 PM

Sound Forge Pro. I only use .wav and .mp3, but it won't snap for either type. I just discovered that pressing Z will move the selection to the next zero crossing, but it won't snap automatically as my first version of SF 15 Pro did.

rraud wrote on 9/30/2022, 9:50 AM

I just discovered that pressing Z will move the selection to the next zero crossing,

Yes, @William-Eimers, the default keyboard Z shortcut corresponds to the command in the 'Edit> Selection' menu. The Shift plus (+) and minus (-) keys basically do the same thing to the head or tail zero snap edge which are also 'Edit> Selection' menu.

Otherwise, I cannot duplicate what you experience in SFP15 and subsequent versions going back to SFP-13. Try a reset, and/or contact Magix support. You could re-install the earlier build as well to see if that resolves your issue.

rraud wrote on 9/30/2022, 11:29 AM

Addendum @William-Eimers, you might try adjusting the "Zero-Cross scan time” in the Options> Preference > Edit" menu to less than the 1,000 default. The threshold can be adjusted from the default 0.00 and the crossing slope is usually set to "Any".