Automatic fade in and fade out in one event - macro

Cubase
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Hi, I found a clever trick to add fade in and fade out to an event at the same time.

And a way to adjust the fade in/out time.

I tried using it this way:

  1. Select the unwanted section using the range tool
  2. Press Delete
  3. Select the previous and next event slightly with the Range tool
  4. Press macro which automatically fade in and fade out

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Do you have an idea for a macro that will do all this automatically?

I tried something like this:

  1. Edit - Delete
  2. Edit - Enlarge Range to Next Event
  3. Edit - Enlarge Range to Previous Event
  4. Audio - Increment Fade-In Lenght
  5. Audio - Increment Fade-Out Lenght

And it only works partially - it creates a fade-out on the left/previous event. Unfortunately, not on the right/next one.

track

regards
Adam

ps. Global Auto Fades is out of the question because I like to have control over each fade.

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With the standard fade settings, you have a starting point. You can adjust the fades as needed.

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The problem is that after using the function located in Project/Auto Fades Setting, the fade in and fade out envelopes are not visible.

It works and it is a constant value. You can’t change it depending on the event because you can’t physically see the envelope and you can’t move it freely, so it’s useless.

I think it is possible to write such a macro.

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With the current Cubase version, this has changed.

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  1. Mark the range that should be free of fades
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  2. press A
    grafik

Result:

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You can redo this procedure even if it already has fades on it.

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Is this working with Cubase 10.5?
He isn’t on the current version.

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It would seem so:

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Thank you for your help, but I mean something completely different :slight_smile: The idea is to cut out the unwanted fragment and soften the cut by fade-out on the left and fade-in on the right. Just like I showed in the screenshots. Your suggestion does a completely different thing - works opposite to what I want to achieve.

I still use Cubase 11 because everything is very stable - I read a lot of negative comments about 12 and 13. Maybe I will switch to 13 when everything is stable.

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Again, the automatic fades are not what we were describing.
You can apply standard fades to events. These are customizable fades defined in the fade editors. There are presets available as well, so you can save different fades for later use.
And you can assign the default fade to key commands or use them in macros.

The only problem now is, deleting a range changes the selection to the later event only.

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I solved the problem with an appropriate script.

Clean file:

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Select the area to be removed with the range tool:

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Press the shortcut to my macro (9) and the result. That was exactly the point.
We have fade-ins and fade-outs. This is not an ideal method because we also add fade-in and fade-out at the very beginning and at the very end, but these are very short envelopes and it does not matter.

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And here’s the script - maybe someone will find this solution useful:

script

regards
Adam

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Found another solution by using this Macro :
Fades Macro

You’ll be able to get the same results as @uniAmoog but without adding a fade-in and fade-out at the very beginning and at the very end.
The fade length will depend on your grid type.

Hope this helps too
Cheers

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Works perfectly! It’s actually better, that’s what it was all about. Thank you @Rico.s

Regards

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Hi,
Sadly this doesn’t work for me : the fades won’t appear.

Here is my macro (in French, so maybe I made a mistake)

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Do you have an idea ?

Thanks

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Heyy,
Which version of Cubase are you using ? The previous Macro worked perfectly on Cubase 13 pro, but i just upgraded to version 14 and had to remove the “Enlarge Range to Next Event” to make it work.
Unlike previous versions, Cubase 14 keeps the selection after deleting a range.

Hope this helps !