fade out & fade in ?

[guitar junkie]

ok i have a copy of the old cool edit pro 2.0 and its awesome stuff!
but how do i find the control on fade out and fade in
all i have is the defoult fade and its not all that great it takes off too much or not enough of it how do i get the thing to edit my stuff the way i want it too with fades?
ok thanks guys.

[thajeremy]

not sure what you mean...as far as i know, there is only one way to fade out...start at full volume and fade to nothing...

All you do is highlight what you want to fade in or out, then go to favorites because fade in and out is automatically saved in favorites. choose to fade in or out and the highlighted section of the wave is adjusted accordingly.

[lpdeluxe]

Go to Effects/Amplitude in Edit View and look at the preset menu: there are fade in/fade out options there. You can also do it manually,

[guitar junkie]

thanks this helps

[katmandoo]

lpdeluxe? how do you fade out manually? I'm having the same issue. When I do a fade out, it's not very smooth and seems to just drop out at a certain point. Can you help me with that?
Thanks
Katmandoo

[lpdeluxe]

Check out what I said. You'll see convex and concave fades listed in the menu (referring to the apparent shape of the wave form after you apply it).

Are you mixing down to stereo, and THEN doing the fades? If you're trying to fade each track individually, you'll have difficulties.

If you have some specific questions, let me know.

[lpdeluxe]

Oh yeah: manually. If you have a stereo track in Multi Track View, you can use the volume envelopes to draw the fades. As I mentioned, with more than a stereo track, you run into complications -- it's difficult to do it evenly across several tracks. Of course, this is a cool thing if, for example, you want to fade out the main part of the music and leave, say, a snare hit at full volume while the rest of the music fades.

To do that, highlight the tracks you want to fade together, and go to Edit/Mix Down Selected Tracks to Empty Track (Bounce) (or something like that); it'll give you the choice of mono or stereo, and you'll choose stereo. I'm assuming that up to this point you have accomplished all the ordinary mixing moves (panning, muting clams, etc) and the song is at its final point except for fading out.

If there's a track you want to "linger" without being faded, you would not highlight it, Then you could draw the Volume Envelope to fade the stereo track the way you want it. If you're not familiar with the Volume -- or Pan -- Envelopes, look in the manual or at least pull down the tool bar menus, where you can tick the Enable Volume Envelope entry if they are not already activated.

Once you have the fade exactly the way you want it, you can go to Edit/Mixdown/Selected Tracks and you'll end up with the whole catastrophe in a stereo track in Edit View.

If you're using Audition 2.0 or later, these directions won't work, because Adobe changed the workflow quite a bit.

Finally, you can fade in using the same tools -- my band always ends a set with "Green Onions", where the singer introduces the band members. The only recording I had sounded really rough when we came in, so I just faded up into the good part. In context (a CD of our songs in set order) it sounds very natural.