Smooth Fade Out With Multiple Audio Clips

In MC6, what is the easiest way to accomplish a smooth volume fade out on an audio track which is comprised of many separate audio clips?

You can also place a volume automation into the master buss. That pulls everything down at the same time and by the same amount.


All tracks and all busses are automate-able. 


I tend NOT to use buss automation. I generally have an existing volume envelope in every track anyway, so I just take a few minutes.....set the now marker to about 3 measures back from the song's end and adjust one envelope at a time. In a minute or two, I have the instruments faded.  If the track is bass or drums, where I don't generally use level adjustments, it's about 3 seconds of time to add an envelope just to do the ending fade.  I also use envelopes if the beginning of a song doesn't have drums or bass, I can use envelopes to "hold them out" until the proper moment. 

The reason I spend the time to do that is because sometimes a group fade doesn't sound right. Sometimes I want certain instruments to fade out before others. In my song,  COME & GO for example, I wanted the fiddle to hold it to the very end and be the last one out. (it's on my soundclick site)  Customizing the envelopes allowed me to accomplish that. 

Beagle, my closing audio tracks are comprised of several short vocal clips (say, 3-5 seconds each).  When you sing like I do, you only do one line at a time:-)  Anyway, the fade out of the song may last 20 seconds or so, The track fade option doesn't work because you can only fade one clip at a time.  Thus I can't fade to silence like I want to.  I will try the suggestions to use volume automation on the master first (I think that is midi channel 7).  If I need to alter one instrument differently, then I'll try volume automation on the track level.

Thank you all for the suggestions!

Nuff said.... this is how I do it.

You can see the envelopes and the fades in the tracks.... fades are customizable as needed per track.

glad to be of service.