The Fadings menu contains various functions that allow to change the volume of a sound. The fading curves used by the Fade in and Fade out functions can be selected in the palette that opens when selecting the Settings menu item.
The Symmetric fade function is equivalent to first applying a Fade in to a portion of the desired length at the beginning of the selection, followed by applying a Fade out to a portion of the same length at the end of the selection.
The Ramp function allows to change the volume of the sound from one level at the start of the selection to another level at the end of the selection.
The Crossfade to the Left and Crossfade to the
Right functions allow you to easily create a transition between
two pieces of sound. This is how it works. Let’s say you want to
produce a file containing the songs Song A
and Song B
.
Copy them one behind the other into your file and place a marker at
the junction of both songs. Then select, say 1 second of Song B
starting from the marker and select Crossfade to the Left.
This will first create a fade in of 1 second at the beginning of
Song B
and a fade out of 1 second at the end of Song A
.
It will then merge these two parts into one, creating a nice
transition. The Crossfade to the Right produces the same
result if you select 1 second at the end of Song A
.
The Loop Crossfade function is similar to what was just described, except that it creates a transition between the end and the start of the selection. This allows the resulting sound to be looped seamlessly.
