tlw
The perception of a fade out or in is greatly affected by the "shape" of the fade curve.
A straight line (a linear fade) is perceived as gaining most of it's volume very near the start of the fade if it's a fade in and retaining most of its volume until very near the end if it's a fade out.
A fade in that gains most volume change towards the end of the fade in or loses most at the start by using a curve that's more logarithmic sounds smoother and more natural. For whatever reason, that's how we perceive it. I don't know if it's possible for you to control the fade curves or not, but if you're cuttently using straight-line linear fades (the default) and can change that try using fade-ins that start slowly and gather speed and fade-outs that do the reverse.
Is there a specific button I can press to go to a submenu that will allow me to change the fade curve that will affect the fade-out via the plus and minus numpad keys? For example, I press Numpad * as a keyboard equivalent to a right-mouse-click, and depending on where I am in Sonar, it will take me to a context menu that has a set of choices dealing with a certain parameter. An example of that would be, if I'm on a clip that has a fade-in at the start, or in this case, a fade-out near the end, even though JAWS won't report that, I press the Numpad * key, and I'm supposed to land on a context menue that lists choices of three fade types, "Linear", "Fast Curve", and "Slow Curve". However, since I believe that the fade parameter is a graphic of a triangle, which is clearly an image, JAWS doesn't exactly see what it is, but yet there's some way that it recognizes that I have pointed the "JAWS Cursor", which is different from the regular "PC Cursor", to the start of where the fade-out should begin. So if a "Linear" fade is a straight line, how would I describe a "Fast Curve" and a "Slow Curve"? Would they be like wavy lines? Or maybe diagonal lines?