[Rwp] Fading part of a track

[Patrick Perdue]

Honestly, for volume changes for spoken word voiceover type stuff, I 
don't bother with automation. Instead, I split items and make volume 
changes to those individual items, then shrink/grow left or right edges 
so that they overlap, and thus, crossfade. You are basically just 
crossfading the same piece of audio at one volume to another piece of 
that same audio at a different volume. The length of the overlap 
determines the length of the fade. This also works for panning.
You can even change the shape/type of fade used, though knowing which 
you are using is a bit tricky.

By the way, Chris, a useful action when working with automation 
envelopes: automation: write current values from cursor to end of project.

On 7/19/2015 2:46 PM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
> Much to love about reaper, but the way it handles automation is not one
> of my great delights  'grin'.
>
> I would say your best bet is probably with a control surface,
> but you'll have to write all your values out to the end because reaper
> has this anoying habbit of popping back to the original level,
> like a rubber band instead of sensibly staying where you left it till
> you want it to move again.
>
> You can set the return speed to a really high number so it won't change,
> I'm told there's a setting to defeat this behavior, but the person can't
> find it,
> and I haven't found it yet.
>
> There are some settings you can bind to your keyboard, your qwerty
> keyboard, and others don't seem to bind to change automation, and I
> haven't figured out snapshots yet.
>
> Most use the split items methodand set the volumes of each split to
> where they like, a bit of work if you want a moving fade, but doable.
> You can set your cross-fades to act like you wish,
> either present or not at all,
> and I am not the most knowledgeable reaper cat here, so others feel free
> to chime in and help.
>
> I'm still primarily a sonar man, but slowly getting my head around reaper.
>
>
>
> On 7/19/2015 10:58 AM, Brian Hartgen via RWP wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I’ve come on a long way with Reaper today and have purchased it. I can
>> do everything I want, but I have a question. Is it possible to fade
>> the volume of part of a track and have control over the gradience of
>> the fade? So if I have a piece of music, I may want to fade part of it
>> a few seconds through so as the listener hears the speech track in the
>> foreground. Can I do that, and if so, can I control how long it takes
>> to fade to a specific level?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
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