Ambient solo between songs

[Dark Imagery]

Not sure where to post this thread. Either Mastering or DAW recording im sure but I'll slap it up here. I got two songs that I want to be glued together with a slow gear solo (pretty much a celloish synthed out guitar sound.) I want one song to fade out while the slow gear solo starts, stick on the solo for awhile, then automatically switch to the next track where the slow gear solo fades out and the the new song crushes in. I don't want the slow gear solo to be a seperate track on the CD I just want it to reside let's say between tracks 5 and 6. Maybe I'm too tired to explain this right now, hope you all know what I mean. Anyway, say I record it as a completely seperate session. Is this something I need to try to paste to the end and beginning of the respective songs in the mixing stage or something I need to explain to my mastering engineer? Thanks guys!

 

[CFox]

Hi, what DAW are you using ? If you dont have on then grab Reaper, its free for 30 days then only $40 US to buy. Put the 3 audio clips into one track and line them how you want, Reaper will automatically crossfade them for you. You can adjust the cross fade also.

 

[moresound]

Hi, what DAW are you using ? If you dont have on then grab Reaper, its free for 30 days then only $40 US to buy. Put the 3 audio clips into one track and line them how you want, Reaper will automatically crossfade them for you. You can adjust the cross fade also.

This is how I would accomplish this as well.
For there are other ways but this has the least amounts of headaches.

 

[Dark Imagery]

Thanks for the replies. I'm using ProTools M-powered 8. I could do what you're saying in protools but I'm wanting the CD track number to change in the middle of the solo. Is this something best left to the mastering engineer?

 

[CFox]

I dont think it can be done the exact way you want it as there has to be a minuscule pause to load the next track and this can also be dependent on the CD player.

You can define how much space there is between tracks when burning a cd though, so try reducing that.

From the Reaper User Guide page 292

Audio CD Image (Cue/Bin) format
Specifications as for CD Audio. This option can be used to burn your rendered output directly to CD, or to create an image file on your hard drive for use with other CD burning software.
You can specify how markers or regions should be used to define tracks. This includes the option only to use markers whose name begins with "#", in which case these become track markers.
Further information about how to do this can be found later in this chapter.

...so using whichever DAW that enables you to do this; get the project sounding how you want and drop in markers where you want the track to change...then render.

 

[moresound]

I dont think it can be done the exact way you want it as there has to be a minuscule pause to load the next track and this can also be dependent on the CD player.QUOTE]

And with a minuscule pause you can fast slope fade out .... then fast slope fade in during the middle of your solo marking that as your track 1 then track 2.

 

[CFox]

In Reaper, I think the render to CD image option does the fade ins and outs where ever you set the markers. So cool

All the OP has to do is adjust the ends of the middle sound item and maybe tweak the auto cross fades to taste, then listen and press M where the markers should go, they of course can be zoomed and adjusted.

I been on Reaper for 2 weeks and am loving it.. *SIGH*

Better off downloading Reaper even for this once off project