if you're looking for affordable and easy-to-use audio editing software for
PC Magix sound Forge audio studio 14 might be a great choice for you in this
sound Forge tutorial I'm going to go over recording editing and using some of
the effects that come with sound Forge audio studio 14 including iZotope ozone
Elements 9 I'm Zane from audio tech tv.com and on this channel I do weekly
audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you conquer the tech and unleash
your creativity I've included a link in the description to magix website so you
can easily hop over there and download the demo or of course you can purchase
it too if you like now let's get into this tutorial so first up I'm going to
change the default layout I like the podcast layout as it uses more of the
screen for the waveform and it gives us some more meters at the bottom you also
get a markers list which I'll get into in a little bit so go up to view then go
to windows layouts and you can change it to podcast there's
also some other layouts here see which one fits your workflow best but I'm
going to choose podcast and here's the markers list right here I just like this
layout a lot more this step isn't necessary but this is the view that I'm
going to be working in so I just wanted to show you how I got it to look this
way so let's do some audio recording go up to file
click on new and now you have some options here and the sample rate of
48,000 is typical for video work and same with 24-bit 44100 and 16-bit is
cd-quality so you can choose the quality that you want here based on whatever it
is you're going to be recording a microphone is just a mono source so I'm
going to keep this as mono and then click OK now let's just quickly check
out our audio settings to make sure our interface or USB mic is the one that's
selected for recording so go up to options preferences and then in the
Audio tab go over to record and you'll be able to see your device
listed in here and for channel one you'll want to make sure it's set for
the input 1 or 2 or your microphone whatever it is you're going to be
recording you want that to be on channel 1 right there and you may have to change
the audio device here it could be set for something different than what you're
going to be using I'm using my USB mic which is the shure MV51 and that's set
to channel 1 here once you have that set up you can click OK and now just one
more quick step before we start recording go up to view
and then click on recording options it's right here now you can turn your monitor
on or off so if you have monitoring on you'll be able to hear yourself while
you're recording if you turn it off you won't hear yourself while recording
and of course that depends if you're wearing headphones or you have speakers
connected but I personally like to keep it off when I'm recording my voice like
this so I'm going to leave it off also if you
want to check your levels you can do that in here as well just click the arm
for recording button right here and now you'll see your levels down here
so it looks like my levels are okay and I can start recording you can actually
leave this open if you like if you prefer these meters here and again it's
all just a preference thing and now we can hit record this is a demo recording
in sound Forge audio studio 14 if you're enjoying this video so far please give
it a thumbs up now that we have our audio clip we can do some editing so go
up to this area right here and click on this icon for the event tool and now we
can edit the audio with this so we can come down here and go to our clip and
say we want to make a split right here click there
then you can just press the s key on your computer keyboard or you can
right-click and click on split and now these two
parts are separate from each other so I can actually drag this over or I can
drag it this way you'll see the crossfade happening here or I can even
extend this and copy this part over here and I'll have it two times for whatever
reason I might want to do that also you notice if I hover the mouse in
the top corner here it changes if I click and drag I can create a fade at
the beginning of this part of the clip and you can do that on the other side of
the clip as well he can trim the clip by just hovering over the edge of it
clicking and dragging either way you can do that on both sides of it if when
you're recording you make a mistake or there's a part that you might want to
revisit you can actually just press the M key on your computer keyboard and you
can see it makes a marker right here and you can do this while you're recording
so let's have a look at that right now I'll start recording again this is a
test of making markers Here I am pressing M and there's another marker
showing up I'll press it again you can see down in this list here we have three
markers and you can actually rename these if you like and if you click over
here it jumps the cursor to that marker and you can play from that marker by
clicking the play button on each one and this is very helpful if you're recording
your podcast and you know there's a part that you kind of flubbed or you know you
want to revisit it for whatever reason you just hit that M button while you're
recording and then you can go back and easily find it or it's also great if you
have different sections of your podcast or whatever it is you're recording you
can just hit that marker and you know okay that's where I'm going to put in my
bumper or my intro or whatever it is that you want to put in there which
brings me to what if we need to bring other audio in there are different ways
that you might want to do this you might want to bring a music bed to go
underneath your voice or you may want to splice in another piece of audio like a
podcast intro or a bumper you can do both of these in sound Forge audio
studio first let's look at adding some music under our voice so you can
actually drag and drop an audio file into sound Forge from down in this area
here and that's what I'm going to do because I can see I have some audio
files here
just drag-and-drop it up here the other way to do it is you can just drag and
drop it from either your desktop or a folder on your computer you would just
drag it in
hover over and drop it in there like that
so let's switch over to the tab of the audio that I just brought in so you can
either choose this entire clip by pressing ctrl a on your computer
keyboard if you want to bring everything over or you can just highlight a section
that you might want to bring in and then you just press ctrl C on your
computer keyboard to copy or you could right-click copy
and we'll go back to the tab of what we recorded earlier now let's say I just
want to put this music under the intro part of my voice here so go to wherever
it is you want this audio to start and then you can just press control M on
your computer keyboard and you can see it brings up this mix / replace window
and you have to faders here the first one is for what you're pasting in and
the second one is for what you've already recorded so you want to bring
the music bed down so it's underneath your voice and you can preview it as you
go this is a demo recording in sound Forge audio studio 14 if you're enjoying
this video so far please give it a thumbs up alright let's say that's what
I want click OK and now this is a demo recording that's what we have so that's
one way of adding other audio into your clip the other way would to be copied
this audio from another clip and then go back here and we made our slice here so
we'll move this over
to our edit tool and right click paste now you can see we have this whole other
piece of audio in here so we could drag this and do some cross fading with it if
we wanted that to be in the middle and then crossfade on each side so maybe
it's a song you want to play in your podcast so you want your voice to fade
out while you're going into it and then fade back in when you're coming out of
the song or whatever it is that you're going into and out of this is very easy
to do all right now let's look at using effects you can use effects on your
entire audio track or just on sections of it if you just want to put an effect
on a section of your audio go over to the Edit tool here then you want to
click and highlight the section that you want the effect on and then you would go
up to effects or FX favorites and add the effect that you want
so we'll try it out here we'll go up to effects and say we want to add some
reverb to this section here we'll just choose one of these presets
say dreamverb listen to what that will sound like all
right let's say that's what I wanted just click okay
this if you're enjoying this and you can hear just that section had the effect on
it now if you wanted to put in effect on your entire track just press ctrl-a on
your computer keyboard and that selects everything and this time we're gonna go
up and use a third-party plug-in you can see if you click on effects favorites
all of these plugins are in here these are all third-party plugins that I added
if you don't see any in here and you know you have third-party plugins
installed on your computer go into options preferences VST effects tab and
then make sure in here your default VST search folder is set to whatever folder
you use for your vsts and then once you set it you click OK it's going to scan
for them and you should see them up in your effects favorites if you don't see
them in here in this list here you may have to go into organize and you can go
in here and right-click and add two effects favorites individually so I'll
just test out this waves Berzerk distortion plugin let's hear what that
will sound like this is a demo recording in sound Forge audio studio 14 if you're
enjoying this video so far please give it alright say that's what I wanted
click OK and we have a third party of that song is a demo recording in sound
Forge audio studio for now let's quickly look at iZotope ozone elements 9 which
is a great plugin that you get with sound Forge audio studio 14 so just like
before select the area that you want to affect
go up to effects favorites then iZotope inc and you would find
ozone 9 elements
and you'll see that you can access some presets in here just by clicking presets
and it brings up this window or you can use the master assistant
which will kind of do everything for you so click on master assistant then you
can click on the intensity that you want I'll just leave it at medium if you're
just going to be streaming click streaming
if this audio is for CD click CD then click Next and when you're on this
screen you want to hit the preview button this is a demo recording in sound
Forge audio studio 14 if you're enjoying this video so please give it a thumbs up
this is a demo recording in sound Forge audio studio 14 if you're alright let's
listen to that this is a demo recording in sound Forge audio studio 14 if you're
enjoying this video so far please give it a thumbs up and you can make any
adjustments you want in here or you can accept it as is click OK and you'll see
it's made those automatic edits for you now you'll have to play with that effect
a little bit sometimes the auto mastering doesn't quite get it right
every time but it does give you a good starting point and you can adjust as
needed be sure to try it out on your next podcast and see if it can add a
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