Mixing Multiple Files |
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While Sound Forge is not a multitrack editor — check out our Vegas and ACID family of products for full multitrack recording and editing — you can perform basic mixing from separate audio files.
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Open the files you want to mix.
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Click the New button
on the toolbar to create a new data window.
This step is optional, but for this example, we’re going to perform our mixing in a new data window so we don’t change our original sound files.
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From the Window menu, choose Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically so you can see all open data windows.
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Copy the first file to your new (blank) data window:
a. Click the first data window to give it focus, and then press Ctrl+A to select all sound data.
b. Click the Copy button 
on the toolbar to copy the data to the clipboard.
c. Click the blank data window to give it focus.
d. Click the Paste button 
on the toolbar to paste the data to the new data window.
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Mix the second file to the new data window:
a. Click the second data window to give it focus, and then press Ctrl+A to select all sound data.
b. Click the Copy button on the toolbar to copy the data to the clipboard.
c. Click the blank data window to give it focus.
d. Click to position the cursor where you want to mix your audio.
e. Click the Mix button 
on the toolbar to mix the audio from the clipboard at the cursor position. The Mix dialog is displayed.
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Use the faders in the Mix dialog to adjust your mix and fade in/out levels. You can click the Preview button to audition your mix.
For more information about using the controls in the Mix dialog, please see the Mix help topic.
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Click the OK button when you’re satisfied with your mix.