Fade Clip
Re: Fade Clip
Automation and/or sidechain are of the most common ways to do it.
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Re: Fade Clip
In the old days the musicians would play quieter so as not to over power the singer.
My sense is that is is a good approach for trying to make the music sound more live or organic. Of course for some genres the goal is completely the opposite.
If this approach makes sense to you, one way to accomplish this is to work with the MIDI clips directly. The goal is to lower the velocity (loudness) settings for each MIDI note. To make this less tedious you can select a bunch of notes (command/control A) and change all those notes at one time. Also, there is a MIDI plug in that will do this automatically for you that you can turn on and off when needed.
It this isn't enough control, the next step could be automation. My preference is to put an Live UTIILTY plug in on the track and automate the gain of the plug in. This allows you to set the performance dynamics of the track while leaving the faders free for the mixing process.
Another thing to be aware of is to see if the notes in the MIDI clip are "stomping" over the notes the singer is singing. While this situation can be addressed by gain control and filtering it often a more effective solution is to rearrange the notes in the chord to create some space for the singer. If this can be done successfully it makes mixing much easier.
My sense is that is is a good approach for trying to make the music sound more live or organic. Of course for some genres the goal is completely the opposite.
If this approach makes sense to you, one way to accomplish this is to work with the MIDI clips directly. The goal is to lower the velocity (loudness) settings for each MIDI note. To make this less tedious you can select a bunch of notes (command/control A) and change all those notes at one time. Also, there is a MIDI plug in that will do this automatically for you that you can turn on and off when needed.
It this isn't enough control, the next step could be automation. My preference is to put an Live UTIILTY plug in on the track and automate the gain of the plug in. This allows you to set the performance dynamics of the track while leaving the faders free for the mixing process.
Another thing to be aware of is to see if the notes in the MIDI clip are "stomping" over the notes the singer is singing. While this situation can be addressed by gain control and filtering it often a more effective solution is to rearrange the notes in the chord to create some space for the singer. If this can be done successfully it makes mixing much easier.
Re: Fade Clip
Just render it in Audacity and import back! lol
In fact, just do your entire production work in Audacity and then 'render it back' to Ableton.