Re: How to crossfade (slide) in between MIDI chords ?

Cubase
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Hi, how to crossfade two chords (MIDI track) for example C major and than D major into smooth long transition.
I use LABS pads for ambient music.
I need transition to lasts like 3-4 seconds.
When I put long release,decay slow attack it gets very mudy and cacophony.
When all notes sounds at the same time - awful!

When you hear a worship music one harmony “glide” or “slide” into another, it is more of a morphing chords. You do not hear all of the notes at some point together.

As one guy pointed out in some comments: " Learning how to crossfade pads would be better than unnecessarily adding a bunch of reverb and delay to the pads just to give them a “pseudo” crossfade effect."

That is what I want to learn, does anybody know how to do that or some useful video?

Thanks!

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Hi,

The only way is to use Pitch Bend as the Note Expression Editor for individual MIDI Notes to make the slides Note-independent. I mean if you want to just slide from C to D, then it’s easy, you can use just Pitch Bend. But if you would like to slide from C to Dmin, then the 3rd has to slide only 1 semitone, but the rest has to slide 2 semitones. Then you have to do it Note-independent.