Replacing Sound Data with Previous Data

Available only in Sound Forge

Effects Menu:
Repair

From the Tools menu, choose Repair and choose Replace from the submenu to replace a region of sound with previous sound data. This function is useful for replacing regions of sound that have longer-lasting noises, such as scratches.

What do you want to do?

Replace a selection

  1. Select the corrupted audio. For most cases, the selection should be between 5 and 50 milliseconds in length. The maximum allowed replace time is 0.5 seconds.

  2. From the Tools menu, choose Repair, and choose Replace from the submenu. The selected audio is replaced with the data preceding the selection, and the edges of the replaced audio are crossfaded to prevent glitching.

Hold Ctrl while replacing data to replace the selected audio with the data following the selection.

Find and replace a glitch

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Find.

  2. Use the Find dialog to specify the type of glitch you want to fix and click the OK button.

  3. From the Tools menu, choose Repair, and choose Replace from the submenu. A 15-millisecond range of data surrounding the cursor is replaced with the preceeding data, and the edges of the replaced audio are crossfaded to prevent glitching.