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photonicrecords wrote:It's hard to take a DAW seriously when it refuses to add one of the most basic features of a DAW.

It's also a bit more complicated to add crossfades into Live, in a satisfactory way, because of the synchronization between the arrangement and the session. However, there are ways to do this, of course. +1 from me too (but at the same time, I understand why it's not as straightforward as it might seem).

How does crossfades work across two tracks? In Acid 4.0x Pro it was simple, highlight clip on track one and clip on track two and press F or CTRL-F and viola, crossfade! I am very surprised (unless I don't see it/haven't looked at manual(s) ) this hasn't gotten in there. Now to do it within the same track would be very nice so we don't have to adjust levels in the session view of the particular clips to be as close as possible volume-wise.

Clear it up for me though if one of the two crossfades is actually there. In Acid it did a perfect fade out/in bezier curve.

+1

any more word on this? It is totally killing me right now to not be able to crossfade audio tracks in arrangerview (without silly workarounds...)

+1

I just re-read the posts on this thread, and in case Ableton is listening, I think what most of us are after is being able to fade one audio clip into another in one track in arrangerview. In Sony Vegas for instance, you just start dragging the beginning of the audio track on the right over the end of the audio track on the left. For the portion of overlap, Vegas automatically creates fade-in and fade-out curves--it couldn't be any easier--just drag one clip over the other.

Maybe other people are looking for different functionality, but this is what I think could really help Live be a true DAW--it's hard to comp lots of takes together well without at least some crossfading!

I would certainly like that.

It would also be a boon in Session though. I think I said it earlier, in theatrical or installation work when working with 'background noises' it would be very useful to crossfade from a scene of 'street noises' to a scene of 'indoor noises' . And before anyone says it ... no, it's not really possible with the current DJ style crossfader

The ability of that would be really nice. Also like in Acid Pro you highlight one tracks clip and another in track below it and hit Ctrl-F and it fades between the two if you wanted to have them fade that way (obviously they'd be starting before end of other clip, i.e. track 1 ends at 1min track 2 starts at 50secs so highlight the clips and press Ctrl-F and i would fade them at the points they intersect. You know what I mean if you've used Acid. Never used Vegas so I can't comment if it does the same (I'd assume it would).

That's exactly my problem with live!
I waste my time to paste two ( many) clips together, manually, to avoid clips; that's
more and more tiresome!

+ 1

+ 1 billion.

Someone at the Live booth at AES said that it was "coming soon, within Live 7 in the first half of 2008, I promise!". Hoping he was speaking the truth...

Beck

+!

I was just doing some basic editing of a drum track in Arrange. I cut out a few bars and moved around a few bars and thought: "Now I just need some very small crossfades to get rid of a few ticks". Duh; no crossfading! Wow, I did not see that one coming, haha.

So; crossfades +1.

The way Logic used to do it, so that it doesn't require more voices, is quickly calculate the crossfade offline and write it to disk, so it becomes a new clip that sits between the two crossfaded clips.

That would be fairly easy to integrate into Live IMO there is already quite a bit of offline business going on (freeze, consolidate, reverse).

I wouldn't care if there was an extra voice.