Other Preferences

Options Menu:
Preferences

Use the Other tab in the Preferences dialog to specify miscellaneous Sound Forge preferences. To display this tab, choose Preferences from the Options menu and click the Other tab.

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Specify a pre-roll for looped playback

In the Play Looped adjust pre-roll box, specify the number of seconds that will be played before the loop end point when playing in Loop Preview mode.

To play a loop in Loop Preview mode, hold the Ctrl key while clicking the Play Looped button . This is useful when loop-tuning a long loop.

Configure the Audio Event Locator

Use the Audio Event Locator Pre-roll and Loop time settings to control how the Audio Event Locator plays audio:

To use the Audio Event Locator, click on the overview bar and drag the mouse. Playback will loop around the cursor position until the mouse button is released.

Configure the Preview Cut/Cursor command

Use the Cut preview configuration Pre-roll and Post-roll settings to control the amount of data that is played back when you choose Preview Cut/Cursor from the Edit menu: