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Fades and crossfades
Creating fades
There are two types of fade ins and fade outs in audio events in Cubase:
event-based fades that you create by using the fade handles and clip-based fades
created by processing.
RELATED LINKS
Event-based fades on page 174
Clip-based fades on page 176
Event-based fades
Selected audio events have triangular handles in the upper left and right corners.
These can be dragged to create a fade in or fade out, respectively.
The fade handles are visible when you point the mouse at the event.
The fade is automatically reflected in the shape of the event’s waveform, giving you
a visual feedback of the result when dragging the fade handle.
Fades created with the handles are not applied to the audio clip as such but
calculated in realtime during playback. This means that several events referring to
the same audio clip can have different fade curves. It also means that having a large
number of fades may require more processing power.
• If you select multiple events and drag the fade handles of one of them, the
same fade is applied to all selected events.
• A fade can be edited in the Fade dialog, as described on the following pages.
You open the dialog by double-clicking in the area above the fade curve, or by
selecting the event and selecting “Open Fade Editor(s)” from the Audio menu (note
that this will open two dialogs if the event has both fade in and fade out curves).
If you adjust the shape of the fade curve in the Fade dialog, this shape will be
maintained when you later adjust the length of the fade.