Single instance of external editor

[mikejcurtis]

How can I configure Waveform to only open one external Soundforge, and then load any further edits into the same instance? Right now, every time i try to edit a track, it opens another instance of the external editor.

[pough]

That's almost certainly a Soundforge setting.

[talby]

As far as I understand how the use of a single instance of an app versus the parallel usage of various instances of an app is controlled, this control first of all happens in the app itself.

So, you will have to find out if in the settings of Soundforge it is possible to define such different behavior. It is usually called by terms describing something like: allow only one instance to exist at a time and reuse this when already opened, or allow to open multiple instances in parallel. Sometimes such option can then also be set in the command line by which an app is launched.

As Soundforge is a Windows app, I conclude that you are using Windows as your OS, and then also your Waveform will be the version for Windows. Then, ...
... let's assume you could launch Soundforge by some alternative launch command line having added to it a special launch option (pure fantasy, you will have to substitute this, if it exists for Soundforge at all, for the correct command launching option as Soundforge expects it):

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soundforge.exe --single-instance-reuse

Then you might want to enter the folder where Waveform stores its configuration files.

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WAVEFORM - SETTINGS - File Locations - General --> Show Settings Folder

and will most likely be directed here:

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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Tracktion

From here enter the sub-directory WAVEFORM and find there the file:

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Waveform.settings

The quick path to this file would be:

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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Tracktion\AppData\Roaming\Tracktion\Waveform\Waveform.settings

With a Text Editor like Notepad search for the line where Soundforge is configured as the audio editor, which Waveform should use. It could look like this (fantasy alarm concerning the path to Soundforge, again):

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<VALUE name="audioEditor" val="C:\Program Files\SoundforgeVersionX\Soundforge.exe"/>

Edit this configuration entry according to what I explained above:

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<VALUE name="audioEditor" val="C:\Program Files\SoundforgeVersionX\Soundforge.exe --single-instance-reuse"/>

DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DO NOT EXACTLY UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE SUGGESTION. IF YOU MESS UP THE SETTINGS FILE OF WAVEFORM, THEN WAVEFORM WILL NOT WORK ANY MORE! ONLY PROCEED IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH SUCH MODIFICATIONS AND WOULD BE ABLE TO UNDO THEM ON YOUR OWN!

And to point it out once more: maybe such option does not exist for Soundforge at all, maybe it simply exits within the Soundforge settings but not as a specification in the launch command line, maybe it exists by calling it as an option in the launch command line. Only in the latter case you would touch the Waveform.settings file. In the former cases leave the Waveform configuration of course untouched!
Good Luck!

[pough]

I've never used SoundForge and I don't know which version you're using, but I did find this:
https://www.magix.info/us/forum/sound-f ... --1252594/

[mikejcurtis]

I found the answer:
go to the 'Options' menu
- hold 'Shift' key and select 'Preferences'
- select the 'Internal' tab
- find "Force Single Instance behavior" (bottom of list or use search)
- change value from 'FALSE' to "TRUE"
- click 'Apply' and 'OK'
- Exit or restart SF