Track 'Auto Fade Settings' doesn't work per track as expected? [slight protocol change suggestion]

Cubase
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I always thought right clicking on a track and going to the ‘Auto Fade Settings…’ was a per track dependent setting, yet enabling the ‘Auto Fade In’ , ‘Auto Fade Out’, ‘Auto Crossfade’ options seems to enable them globally…

Am I wrong on this?

When going a tracks ‘Auto Fade Settings…’ the window is titled reflecting the track name. Whereas, going to Project > ‘Auto Fade Settings…’, the window is titled to reflect the project name… So it seems to be intended that they are different.

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See post 13 for protocol suggestion:

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Also, in terms of Window design ‘Use Project Settings’ is so close to ‘Length’ that it makes it seem as if they conform to each other only.

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It’s because you have Use Project Settings checked.

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ohhh my bad, I thought that had to do with the ‘Length’ setting, ie, use ‘Project Length Setting’ since that’s how the window is arranged. sort of bad windows design

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@steve
Also, doesn’t really explain why it changes it for all audio tracks - shouldn’t it only be using the ‘Project Settings’ for that specific track? And not engaging it for all audio tracks?

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That is what it does here on 10.5 and 11.

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Are you sure? the above gif is 10.5 - you can see it enables it for both tracks, not the one track.

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No, I don’t see that. But maybe I have misunderstood.

Rephrase it as an all text bug repro, I’ll have another look.

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-Turn off global Project Auto-Fade settings
-Add two audio tracks, name one ‘A’ and the other ‘B’
-Check both audio tracks that ‘Auto Fade In’, ‘Auto Fade Out’ and ‘Auto Cross Fade’ are off for both tracks, but ‘Use Project Settings’ is on:
A: ‘Auto Fade In’=off ‘Auto Fade Out’=off and ‘Auto Cross Fade’=off | ‘Use Project Settings’=On
B: ‘Auto Fade In’=off ‘Auto Fade Out’=off and ‘Auto Cross Fade’=off | ‘Use Project Settings’=On
-Select Audio Track: A and turn ‘Auto Fade In’ on for the one audio A track only.
-Check the other Audio track B auto-fade settings, error should be that ‘Auto Fade In’ has also been turned on.

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Now I’m more confused- this is not what is shown in your gif.

It works like this here in C10.5:

autoFade

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Okay I’m also confused,

the only difference I can see between our gifs, is that ‘Use Project Settings’ for me, was already on when I opened up this dialogue.

I’ll have to test it some more, maybe there is a conflict somewhere

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for clarity…

autoFade2

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to replicate my steps, turn off your Global Project Auto Fades

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For some reason, changing the one audio track, changes the other 2 AND the project settings

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I think the problem is that there is no smart differential override in the code, and because I am making a change to the single track with ‘Use Project Settings’ on, when there are no Auto-Fade Project settings, it’s changing the project settings to what I’m setting in the single track, thus changing all the other tracks as well.

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That’s how it works. If Use Global… is active, you edit the global settings. Turn it off and and the track has its own.

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Yeah i just figure that out.

I guess this is part user-error, part weird design.

It would make more sense to have a automatic differential override, whereby if there is a change that is different from the project settings, it becomes unchecked.

And then in addition to that, have a ‘Set as Global Project Settings’ button, which would then rewrite the Project Auto-Fade settings, and thus recheck the ‘Use Project Settings’ box.