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Fades, crossfades and envelopes
Play buttons
• The “Play Fade Out” and “Play Fade In” buttons allow
you to audition the fade-out or fade-in part only, without
the crossfade.
• The “Play Crossfade” button plays back the whole
crossfade.
You can also use the Transport play controls to play back
the crossfaded audio events. However, that method will
play back all unmuted audio events on other tracks as well.
Pre-roll and Post-roll
When auditioning with the Play buttons, you can choose
to activate pre-roll and/or post-roll. Pre-roll lets you start
playback before the fade area, and post-roll lets you stop
playback after the fade area. This can be useful for audi-
tioning the fade in a context.
• To specify how long the pre- and post-rolls should be,
click in the time fields and enter the desired time (in sec-
onds and milliseconds).
• To activate pre- and post-roll, click the respective but-
ton. To deactivate, click the button again.
Length settings
You can adjust the length of the crossfade area numeri-
cally in the “Length” field. If possible, the length change
will be applied equally to “both sides” of the crossfade
(i.e. Cubase tries to “center” the crossfade).
Presets
If you have set up a crossfade shape that you may want to
apply to other events, you can store it as a preset by click-
ing the Store button.
• To apply a stored preset, select it from the pop-up menu.
• To rename the selected preset, double-click on the
name and type in a new one.
• To remove a stored preset, select it from the pop-up
menu and click Remove.
Default buttons
• Clicking the “As Default” button stores all of the current
settings as the default crossfade. These settings will then
be used whenever you create new crossfades.
• The Crossfade Length setting is included in the Default
settings. However, it is only applied if the events to be
crossfaded don’t overlap – otherwise the crossfade will be
in the overlap area (see “Creating crossfades” on page 91).
• Clicking the “Recall Default” button copies the curves
and settings of the Default crossfade to the Crossfade
dialog.
Auto Fades and Crossfades
Cubase features an Auto Fade function that can be set
both globally, i.e. for the entire project, and separately for
each audio track. The idea behind the Auto Fade function
is to create smoother transitions between events by ap-
plying short (1–500 ms) fade-ins and fade-outs.
Making global Auto Fade settings
1. To make Auto Fades settings globally for the project,
select “Auto Fades Settings...” from the Project menu.
This opens the Auto Fades dialog for the project.
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To be able to resize a crossfade this way, it must be
possible to resize the corresponding event. For ex-
ample, if the left crossfaded event already plays its
audio clip to the end, its endpoint cannot be moved
any further to the right.
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As mentioned earlier, fades are calculated in real
time during playback. This means that the larger the
number of audio tracks with Auto Fades activated in
a project, the higher the demands on the processor.
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Note that auto fades are not indicated by the fade
lines!