Fade in and Fade outs.

 
 
Hello everybody. I would like to know how to make fade ins and fade outs and also how to change the tempo during the song with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. Thanks a lot for your help and have a nice weekend. Greetings.
                                                                Edgardo.   

Hello Mr. Larry good afternoon. My question is about midi tracks because I dont know to work with audio. Could you tell me what can I do if I work with audio? Thank you very much and have a nice day. Greetings.
                                                             Edgardo.
                                               

Hello Mr. Larry good afternoon. I see more clearly now everything about to change the time in a midi. I have been working with midi and now I try to make it with audio but how? I mean what can I do with audio? I really dont understand and I dont know what audio is good for.
Well thanks a lot again for your help and have a nice day. Greetings.
                               Edgardo. 

Here's some info on doing fade in/out in midi tracks.
You need to have the piano roll view of a midi track open.  There should be two horizontal panes visible.  The top pane has the piano roll (piano keys on the left and midi notes on the right).  The bottom pane shows values for a selected controller.

If the bottom pane is not showing, move your cursor down to the bottom of the window until it becomes two horizontal lines with an up and down arrow.  Click and drag up.  This will drag the splitter bar up to reveal the bottom pane.

In the tool bar at the top of the piano roll view are 3 drop down lists.  One (the 3rd one) shows the current channel.  The other two are of interest here.  The left one gives choices for things to display and edit in the lower pane.  In this case we want to edit a controller so select Control.  Then select "11-Expression" from the middle list.

The expression controller is used to modify the volume of the midi notes.  The expression controller can have values from 127 down to 0.  At 127 the midi notes play at their programmed volume.  At 0 the midi notes can not be heard.  The expression controller can not make the midi notes play louder than their programmed volume.

So you start with a midi track where the volume is set where you want it.  Then in the lower pane, using the pencil tool or the line tool, you can draw in a upward curve (running from 0 to 127) to get a fade in.  Or a downward curve (from 127 to 0) to get a fade out.

Note that the expression controller affects only the current midi channel (and thus the midi notes on that channel).  If you want to do a fade in/out on multiple channels, then you need to edit the expression controller for each of those channels.  Normally, a track has notes that are all on the same midi channel so editing the controller on that track is equivalent to editing the channel.

Give it a try to see how it works.  And while you are there experiment with some of the other controllers or velocity or whatever.

--Larry

Hi Edgardo!  Glad I could help.  I've been out of town for over a week and now my PC is broken and is being repaired.  I'm using another PC now and can't get to Pro Audio to investigate issues.  It might be awhile before I get to more answers.

In any case, I have a request for you.  It is much better to have a separate thread (question and replies) for each problem or issue.  It makes it much easier for others to find the issue and answers.

So, please post your question about quantizing in a separate thread with a subject that will help others find it.

Cheers,
Larry