Post by JohnG on Sept 4, 2009 7:24:44 GMT
Fade Out Delete - Part 2
The same disclaimers apply to this tutorial as applied to the previous one.
Before attempting this tutorial you should have read the previous one about removing fade-outs. You will need to be aware of the techniques used there in order to make full use of this one.
Well, that was the easy, straightforward, way of removing a fade out at the end of a track, and by reiterating the procedure for each track, we can totally remove the fade. What's left behind, musically, is quite another matter and may need some serious work on it to create a suitable "outro". Often that can be done, though, by a bit of judicious "cut and paste" work from another part of the file.
This tutorial is to show you another way of achieving the same goal, but when we know that we want to remove the fade on a whole series, or all, of the tracks. It uses the same piano roll but uses a couple of extra features in CWPA.
We start by highlighting all of the tracks we want to edit. How? By mouse clicking on the first track so that the data in the track goes black (as before), then pressing and holding down the Ctrl (control) key, then clicking, one at a time, on each of the remaining tracks we want to edit. When we have them all selected, as in the picture below, we can release the Ctrl key.
Now we are going to open the piano roll again. Did you know that there are at least three different ways to do that? We can right click in the track, as we did before, then select Piano Roll. We can go the top menu bar and select View / Piano Roll or, lastly, we can just click on the little piano keys icon, on what is probably the second row of icons, at the top of the CWPA screen. Here:
But now what we see is a screen filled with different colour bars. The different colours are used by CWPA to represent the different tracks that we highlighted earlier. It may look something like this:
Having got the window open, we select the "Controller" that we want to edit (see tutorial #1), in this case Expression, and we make sure that we select, from the third selection box along, "All Channels", as below.
Now we need to go from track to track using the eraser icon to wipe out the "11-Expression" or "7-Volume" controllers as we learnt to do in tutorial #1. The only question is, how do we switch from channel to channel or, if you like, track to track?
Well, start by using the eraser to wipe the Expression controlled fade from the first track, and when you've done that you'll see another fade, in another colour, right behind it. Now in order to wipe that we need to bring that track to the "top" of the focus, for want of a better word.
If you look across the icon bar at the top of the Piano Roll window you will see this little up/down arrow icon.
It can be invoked, as can many functions in CWPA, by a single keypress (in this case T), but instead of that we want to use the little down arrow to the right of the up/down arrow, to select Show Next Track(s).
Now we can run the eraser tool across the fade out in this track, do Show Next Track(s) again and erase the next track, and so on until we've done them all.
By the time you've erased them all and closed the piano roll you should end up with something like this:
Then, of course save the file under a new name, if you haven't already done so.
So, that's the second, very similar way. And probably a bit quicker than the first one if we want to edit all, or some, of the tracks.
Feedback is always welcome.
JohnG.
The same disclaimers apply to this tutorial as applied to the previous one.
Before attempting this tutorial you should have read the previous one about removing fade-outs. You will need to be aware of the techniques used there in order to make full use of this one.
Well, that was the easy, straightforward, way of removing a fade out at the end of a track, and by reiterating the procedure for each track, we can totally remove the fade. What's left behind, musically, is quite another matter and may need some serious work on it to create a suitable "outro". Often that can be done, though, by a bit of judicious "cut and paste" work from another part of the file.
This tutorial is to show you another way of achieving the same goal, but when we know that we want to remove the fade on a whole series, or all, of the tracks. It uses the same piano roll but uses a couple of extra features in CWPA.
We start by highlighting all of the tracks we want to edit. How? By mouse clicking on the first track so that the data in the track goes black (as before), then pressing and holding down the Ctrl (control) key, then clicking, one at a time, on each of the remaining tracks we want to edit. When we have them all selected, as in the picture below, we can release the Ctrl key.
Now we are going to open the piano roll again. Did you know that there are at least three different ways to do that? We can right click in the track, as we did before, then select Piano Roll. We can go the top menu bar and select View / Piano Roll or, lastly, we can just click on the little piano keys icon, on what is probably the second row of icons, at the top of the CWPA screen. Here:
But now what we see is a screen filled with different colour bars. The different colours are used by CWPA to represent the different tracks that we highlighted earlier. It may look something like this:
Having got the window open, we select the "Controller" that we want to edit (see tutorial #1), in this case Expression, and we make sure that we select, from the third selection box along, "All Channels", as below.
Now we need to go from track to track using the eraser icon to wipe out the "11-Expression" or "7-Volume" controllers as we learnt to do in tutorial #1. The only question is, how do we switch from channel to channel or, if you like, track to track?
Well, start by using the eraser to wipe the Expression controlled fade from the first track, and when you've done that you'll see another fade, in another colour, right behind it. Now in order to wipe that we need to bring that track to the "top" of the focus, for want of a better word.
If you look across the icon bar at the top of the Piano Roll window you will see this little up/down arrow icon.
It can be invoked, as can many functions in CWPA, by a single keypress (in this case T), but instead of that we want to use the little down arrow to the right of the up/down arrow, to select Show Next Track(s).
Now we can run the eraser tool across the fade out in this track, do Show Next Track(s) again and erase the next track, and so on until we've done them all.
By the time you've erased them all and closed the piano roll you should end up with something like this:
Then, of course save the file under a new name, if you haven't already done so.
So, that's the second, very similar way. And probably a bit quicker than the first one if we want to edit all, or some, of the tracks.
Feedback is always welcome.
JohnG.
...that explains why I sometimes used to have problems doing it my way ........to erase a fade out at the end Id cut all the tracks from the fade point and then copy/paste a suitable part of the song to make an appropriate outro/ending .......but sometimes the fade would reappear (or was never removed in the first place ) in the new ending I thought by removing everything initially that would include all controlers i.e.vol/expression etc so how does the fade reappear but only in some songs 
I expect doing it this way will sort that problem.......great work as usual John many thanx