Hello. I have noticed something in Wavelab 12 that appears to work annoyingly differently than Wavelab 11. I used to be able to copy a piece of waveform and paste with cross-fade and now I get this weird incomprehensible error that says “Please first select the end of the audio file, corresponding to the length of the crossfade you wish to apply”. I can’t for the life of me make heads or tails of this message. In this case, for this simple example. I take a waveform and I open a place in the middle of the waveform (thus that section has nothing there). I than take some other section of the waveform that I want to crossfade and copy it into the copy buffer. I attempt paste that section with crossfade onto the end of first section where it ends with the part I removed, and I get this message. The cross-fade works on WaveLab 11 but not on 12. Basically all I am doing is pasting a small section onto the end of another section with crossfade. I used to do this all the time. I can only seem to do this now if I include in some weird way the end of the file. Can anyone explain this to me. In fact I believe the user manual indicates what I am doing should work. I hope I am explaining in a way so someone can understand.
Its also worth noting that they changed the Paste selection to indicate Crossfade over Selected End, which is an indicating they have somehow changed the usage model, but I don’t understand how it works
From experimentation it only seems to work if I crossfade onto the end of the waveform, but not in the middle of one if I chop a waveform into two halves with blank space. This I can do in 11 and I can’t understand why this would change. The key must be in this thing they are calling a “selected end”. I can’t for the life of me make out what the heck that means.
Looking even further, it appears they changed the expectation of how paste is used. Previously there was a Paste and a Paste and Crossfade. Now there is a Paste and a separate Crossfading checkbox. And Further in the little box below Paste where it says CUT COPY PASTE there is an options menu you can open that controls the Default Fade/Crossfade that is used I think when you paste. With this change it appears the old Paste and Cross fade that allowed it to operate anywhere within the wave file, now only allows it to work at the end of the file. At least from my experimentation. I can’t say I like this change yet if I even understand it.
As you say, this is an old way. It was confusing for most users.
With the new option, you can copy and paste, and have cross-fades automatically applied.
I would also like to remind you that, if you need to do a lot of sophisticated crossfades, the audio montage editor is perhaps the best solution for you.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, this change to the way crossfades work may be an improvement, but confusing. I can’t say I really like the way the UI is done in this regard, but maybe I just need to get use to it. My crossfades are not really complex per se’, just many of them. I do editing for figure skaters and so these are 2-channel edits but lots of crossfades to join different parts together seamlessly. To your point about using Montage, I had tried it many versions ago and thought it super clumsy and time consuming and never went back to it, but I can explore it again and see if it could make my editing easier than the cut and paste methods I have stuck with.
