Anyone else bewildered by this? No one ever mentions it but the Cakewalk method is pretty lousy if you ask me. 

The temporary ALT key to make the scissors go is good but why the necessity to shift-click on the gain envelope in clip gain filter mode and then go to the top of the clip and drag in a new value etc. And the waveform doesn't even reflect the change you make.... and unlike every other DAW crossfades aren't put in automatically. 

I make a feature request about this once a year for the last five or so years- does no one else care? 

Re. "and unlike every other DAW crossfades aren't put in automatically.", I believe that there is an option to either "always automatically crossfade or never automatically crossfade". You should be able to set it the way you like. Best, Ed PS, yeah, envelopes have always been a bit fiddly.

forgive me for my ignorance...how exactly do i access the clip gain feature in X2??

where is it? can someone please brief me how the feature works in Sonar??

Right click over the clip and choose Envelope -> Clip Gain Envelope.

thanx Ed right on man..aleef

I believe that there is an option to either "always automatically crossfade or never automatically crossfade".


Yeah, you're right about that. And I have that option ticked. But that only takes effect when you move a clip on top of another. What I'm talking about is close gap. 


My workaround is just to have the fade options from the clip menu on a hotkey so I can get to it easy.

I was wrong that all other DAWs do it automatically though- some require the user to press 'x' to create fades etc. But some do it automatically which is very nice.

I just wish that the clip envelope was always visible when a clip is selected and that the waveform changed it's appearance in real time to reflect alteration made to the gain envelope. It's not long ago since fadeins and fadeouts weren't reflected on the waveform but Cakewalk got around to that. Strange they didn't fix this up at the same time.