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Fades and crossfades
• Once you have created a crossfade, you can edit it by
selecting one or both crossfaded events, and selecting
“Crossfade” from the Audio menu again (or by double-
clicking in the crossfade zone).
This opens the Crossfade dialog.
Removing crossfades
To remove a crossfade, proceed as follows:
• Select the corresponding events and select “Remove
Fades” from the Audio menu.
• Use the Range Selection tool to select all fades and
crossfades you wish to remove, and select “Remove
Fades” from the Audio menu.
• Select a crossfade by clicking, and drag it outside the
track.
The Crossfade dialog
Options and settings
The Crossfade dialog contains separate, but identical, sec-
tions for the fade-in and fade-out curve settings in the
crossfade on the left, and common settings on the right:
Option Description
Fade curve
displays
These displays show the shape of the fade out and
fade in curve, respectively. Click on a curve to add
points, click and drag existing points to change their
shape, or drag a point outside the display to remove it.
Curve buttons The curve kind buttons determine whether the corre-
sponding fade curve consists of spline curve segments
(left button), damped spline segments (middle button)
or linear segments (right button).
The curve shape buttons give you quick access to
some common curve shapes.
Equal Gain Activate this parameter to adjust the fade curves so
that the summed fade in and fade out amplitudes will
be the same all along the crossfade region. This is of
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ten suitable for short crossfades.
Equal Power Activate this parameter to adjust the fade curves so
that the energy (power) of the crossfade will be con
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stant all along the crossfade region.
Equal Power curves have only one editable curve point.
You cannot use the Curve kind buttons or the presets
when this mode is selected.
Play buttons These buttons allow you to audition the whole cross-
fade, or the fade out part, or the fade in part. You can
set up key commands for this in the following catego
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ries of the Key Commands dialog:
Media category – Preview Start (triggers crossfade
playback), Preview Stop (stops crossfade playback).
Transport category – StartStop (triggers global play-
back), Stop (stops global playback) and StartStop Pre-
view (triggers crossfade playback).
For further information, see “Key commands” on page
343.
Pre-roll and
Post-roll
Activate pre-roll to start playback before the fade area.
Activate post-roll to stop playback after the fade area.
In the time fields you can enter the desired time (in sec-
onds and milliseconds) for the pre-roll and post-roll
length.
Length This specifies the length of the crossfade area. Cubase
tries to center the crossfade, i.
e. the length change will
be applied equally to both sides. To be able to resize a
crossfade, it must be possible to resize the corre
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sponding event. For example, if the fade out event al-
ready plays its audio clip to the end, its end point
cannot be moved any further to the right.
Presets section Click the Store button to the right of the Presets pop-
up menu to store the settings of your crossfade so that
you can apply them to other events later.
To rename a preset, double-click on the name and type
in a new one.
To remove a preset, select it on the pop-up menu and
click the Delete button.
Default buttons Click the As Default button to store the current settings
as default. These settings will then be used whenever
you create new crossfades.
Click the Recall Default button to apply the curves and
settings of the default crossfade to the Crossfade
dialog.
Option Description