Crossfading events

When OptionsEventAutomatic Crossfades is selected, crossfades are automatically applied when you overlap two events on the same channel.

You can show or hide the crossfade length in a help tag choosing OptionsEvent > Show Crossfade Lengths or pressing Shift+Command+T.


Creating an automatic crossfade

  1. Choose Edit > Mode > Event (or click the Event Mode button in an editor's playbar) to enable event-editing mode.

  2. Verify OptionsEventAutomatic Crossfades is selected.
  3. Drag an event so it overlaps another event on the same channel.

    A crossfade is automatically added to transition between the two events.

Creating a manual crossfade

An automatic crossfade is not inserted if a shorter event is placed on top of a longer event (as in a punch-in). You can manually create a crossfade to fade in to or out of the shorter event. This is a fast and effective method of punching in to replace a bad section of audio.

You can turn off automatic crossfades for longer events by deselecting OptionsEventAutomatic Crossfades.

  1. Choose Edit > Mode > Event (or click the Event Mode button in an editor's playbar) to enable event-editing mode.

  2. Drag a shorter event so it overlaps a longer event, or drag an event with Automatic Crossfades turned off.

  3. Hover over the upper-left or upper-right corner of an audio event until the fade offset cursor is displayed.

  4. Click the corner of the event and drag to create a fade.

  5. Repeat step 4 for the other end of the event.

Changing the fade type

You can change a crossfade to use one of many combinations of fast, slow, linear, smooth, and sharp fade curves.

  1. Right-click the crossfade region to display a shortcut menu.

  2. Choose Fade Type from the shortcut menu and choose a fade curve from the submenu:

Changing the default fade type

If you want to change the default fade type that is used when fading an event in or out, choose OptionsEvent Default Fade In or Default Fade Out and choose a fade curve from the submenu.

The fade curve you choose will be used for new fades (existing fades are unaffected).