DirectShow is used for effects plugins (eg froom 3rd-parties) - this
could include tapped delay-lines with panning, reverb, etc. 

If you are mixing lots of sounds, you really want to place them in a a
multi-track editor, where you can move each sound around in time, define
amplitudes and pan positions for them, and so on, before finally mixing
down to your stereo master. You can't do this with Sound Forge, as it is
not a multi-track editor of that kind. In fact, you can't even treat the
channels of a stereo file separately. It is strictly an editor for
individual mono or stereo soundfiles. In short, you need an editor with
as many 'tracks' as you want overlapping sounds (*2 if the sounds are
stereo to start with).

If you go to their website (http://www.sfoundry.com) you can download a
demo version to try out.
I think you can also get a demo of Cool edit Pro
(http://www.syntrillium.com). There are also several shareware or PD
multitrack editors available through the HarmonyCentral site
(http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Windows/audio_editing.html), as
well as commercial demos. At least one of the m/t editors supports
plugins.

Richard Dobson

Jonathan Drexler wrote:
> 
> Richard:
> Could you give me an example of how DirectShow support
> could be useful?  I know what DirectShow is but am not
> familiar enough with available plugins to know whether it
> would be useful for me.  Also I am afraid that I am not
> clear as to why the stereo limitation in Soundforge
> might be a problem.  Could you explain at little?
> 
> My "snippetts" would probably not be granular, rather
> a phrase here, a phrase there, which I would want to
> amalgamate into a single piece, a bit like the mixing
> and splicing work that used to be done in analog
> studios.
> 
>

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