Crossfade not working-at all.

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Crossfade not working-at all.

I am working the Logic pro 7 tutorial from Martin Sitter's book because I am new to Logic. It tells me to click the audio cross fade tool and then drag it halfaway accross a particular region and I do that. I doesn't make anything-no fade appears. I am zoomed in well enough (looks just like the book's picture) and the audio cross fade tools is definately selected. I closed and opened the software again but it won't make a fade in either direction. Maybe I am confused on the true method here but the click n' drag isn't working. Any ideas?

New Imac intel duo 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 8, 2006 12:59 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 8, 2006 1:25 PM in response to Robert M. Clark

The crossfade tool only works on two adjacent regions. It doesn't make much sense to crossfade a single region, does it? 🙂

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Answer 2

Justin C

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Mar 8, 2006 1:30 PM in response to Robert M. Clark

Well, your audio cannot be compressed or apple loop-just regular PCM. You need to drag over region and background.

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Answer 3

Mar 8, 2006 1:49 PM in response to Nathan Pangburn

Just to clarify a bit after re-reading your post. The fade tool should create a fade on a single region, but in order to crossfade you need to drag over two regions.

If you can't get the fade tool to do anything at all, perhaps Justin's right and you are trying it on compressed or looped audio.

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Answer 4

Beck's

Level 3

790 points

Mar 9, 2006 3:37 AM in response to Robert M. Clark

You have to drag the mouse pointer from within the region to outside of the region. Don't try to just drag it to the edge of the region.

Logic will create the Fade from the point you started draging to the edge of the region, regardless of how far outside of the region you released the mousebutton.

cheers
Martin

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Answer 5

Mar 9, 2006 12:00 PM in response to Nathan Pangburn

Thanks to everyone who wrote in. I have to say that Martin Sitters Logic 7 and Logic Express basic book is a pretty good start- but I have seen some funny little errors. This error, cost me a little time though. I was using the books given logico tutorial files and and I was to fade-in, fade out and crossfade on a track that was labeled bongo- but it wasn't a pcm file after all! The illustrations in the book show the fade working for Mr. Sitter on the "bongo" track of course, which kept me going on my impossible quest. After reading your voices of reason, I recorded a small audio file and then tried the drag the crossfade tool as I had assumed it would work. Surprise of surprises- it worked! I appreciate all of your help. Now I can trudge through the rest of his tutorials (until the next error?) and become a basic logic user.

🙂

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