Editing Preferences

Options Menu:
Preferences

Use the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog to specify preferences for editing and undo operations. To display this tab, choose Preferences from the Options menu and click the Editing tab.

What do you want to do?

Disable or enable triple-click selection of all data

Select the Disable triple-clicking to select all sound file data check box if you don’t want Sound Forge to select all data when you triple-click in a data window. You might want to select this option if triple-clicks are falsely detected when you make a selection and then try to perform a drag operation. Otherwise, decrease Windows' double-click threshold time.

When this check box is cleared, you can triple-click anywhere in a data window to select all data.

Change zero-crossing settings

  1. Use the Snap to zero-crossing slope drop-down list to specify how zero-crossings are detected when you choose Snap to Zero.

Item

Description

Negative Slope

Zero-crossings are detected only on a negative slope.

Any Crossing

Zero-crossings are detected on both positive and negative slopes.

Positive Slope

Zero-crossings are detected only on a positive slope

It is usually best to use either Positive Slope or Negative Slope so that noticeable pops and clicks are not generated by cutting data.

  1. In the Zero-cross scan time box, specify the maximum time (in samples) that Sound Forge will search for the next zero-crossing.

  2. In the Zero-cross level threshold box, specify the sample value below which data will be considered a zero-crossing.

Setting this value above zero can compensate for DC offset. However, if possible, you should remove DC offset first.

Disable automatic snapping at low zoom ratios

Select the Disable auto-snapping below 1:4 zoom ratios check box if you do not want selections to snap to time or zero-crossings when the data window zoom ratio is 1:1 or 1:2.

This is useful if you commonly zoom in fully to adjust selection points manually yet still want to use automatic snapping when zoomed out.

Limit undo buffers

Select the Limit number of undo buffers to check box and specify a number in the edit box to determine the maximum number of Undo operations that will be saved.

When the check box is cleared, Undo operations are not limited.

Having many Undo operations available will increase use of hard-disk space.

Limit redo buffers

Select the Limit number of redo buffers to check box and specify a number in the edit box to determine the maximum number of Redo operations that will be saved.

When the check box is cleared, Redo operations are not limited.

Having many Redo operations available will increase use of hard-disk space.

Disable undo buffers for new windows

Select this check box to prevent Sound Forge from creating undo buffers for new windows.

When this check box is selected, you can enable Undo creation for each window by deselecting Disable Undo/Redo from the Edit menu.

Adjust drag-and-drop window activation

Drag the Drag & drop auto rise delay slider to specify the time before a window underneath the cursor becomes active during drag-and-drop operations.