What I was curious about was the process the VS uses to allocate the intermediate points on an automix fade: on the song in question, the fade was fairly abrupt and I got markers allocated about every 0.2 of a second over the 3 second fade meaning the values were decrementing by 7 or 8 at each marker. I'm convinced I can hear some "stepping" going on there. Alan.
Did you do this fade manually using dynamic fader movements or did you create it using Snapshots? With fast fades, you will get some stepping artifacts. To test it using a different method, try copying the entire song out to some far-out point on the timeline, and perform the fade using snapshots. To minimize the amount of automation data, just move the Master Fader to Zero and do a snap shot there. You'll also need a Snapshot at the start of the desired fade which shows the Master Fader all the way up. Then do the "Gradation" or I prefer to call it "Crossfade" feature by pressing SCENE+NEXT.
Laura Tyson
LTYSON@compuserve.com
3 Jan 1998
1998/02