Q: Fade tool will not work
Hi,
I am trying to use the fade tool to do a fade out on a track. I have it selected and drag it over the end of the track but it just creates a highlighted box and then disappears- same as if you just click and drag on the desktop of a mac and it creates that translucent box but on top of the track. Am I doing something wrong?
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Posted on Sep 25, 2016 6:11 PM
Think about it, it doesn't make sense (with one exception).
Assume you have a piece of written score, the instruction for playing music (MIDI Regions). If a violinist plays that score, you hear an audio signal, and when you record that audio signal, you end up with an Audio Region. You can fade out that Audio Region, but fading out the MIDI Region is like fading out the written score, that makes no sense.
The equivalent to a fade out would be to actually change the instruction, write a decrescendo into the score so the violinist performs the fade out. That means, on the MIDI Region you would change the velocity data of the MIDI Notes,
or send MIDI Volume (CC#7) to the Software Instrument that "performs" the MIDI data. This Volume information is still MIDI data and not audio data
When you talk about Fade Tool I assume that you talk about applying Fades (in, out, crossfade) to the actual Audio Region, which is not possible for MIDI Region (the fade tool will not appear). However you can achieve , as another alternative, the same result with automation (Volume Automation), and that you can apply to Audio Tracks and Software Instrument Tracks.
BTW, if you have recorded your guitar as an audio signal to an Audio Region, then that is not a MIDI Region even if you used Logic's Preset Amps.
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich - LogicProGEM.com
(Author of the "Graphically Enhanced Manuals")
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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Posted on Sep 26, 2016 12:48 PM

