Re: Cross-fading creates short noise
2014/09/04 09:07:31
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Even though it's a good practice, it isn't actually technically necessary to split at a zero-crossing if you're doing a crossfade, only if you're doing a hard splice.
The definition of a crossfade is to gradually reduce one clip's level as the other clip's level is raised. Because the clip samples don't suddenly jump from nothing to something or vice versa, you won't get clicks. Even if you snip the clip at a totally "wrong" spot - as long as the fades are of sufficient duration, which worst-case need to only be > 12.5ms.
Back in the day, we'd cut tape at an angle for the same reason. But if you didn't have enough room for an angle cut, you'd have to do a lateral cut, which could only happen at a place of silence in order to not be audible. It's the same with digital audio. Except nowadays we get do-overs.

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