[Rwp] Fading part of a track

[Scott Chesworth]

Somehow, I'd never thought to try this hack on panning. Awesome!

Thankin' you muchly for this wisdom Patrick.

Scott

On 7/20/15, Patrick Perdue via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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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