Clip Crossfades and Pitch shifting in Wavelab Pro

today we talk about

Clip Crossfades and Pitch shifting in Wavelab Pro

Creating automatic crossfades

Crossfade editing

Fade constrained overlaps

Crossfades between clips

Adjusting crossfades

Time stretching

Pitch shifting

hello everybody andrew blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today let's talk about fades and crossfades in wavelab pro but before we start i want to remind you that there's a link below to the free content navigation guide which is an easy to navigate webpage with links to all the content on this channel and besides that in the near future i'm going to begin adding tips and other bits of information that will only be available there you know things like simple steps that will get you started and up and running quick things that are in the videos but are written down in simple steps that serve as quick reminders when you need information down the road if you're working with programs like wavelab or cubase plug-ins or the cable guys shaperbox2 and many many other projects that are in the works then i know you're going to find just like i have that this is an invaluable study aid and the other thing i want to make sure you understand is that this is not a simple pdf this is a constantly 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free overlaps or fade in constrains overlaps we're going to talk about those in a minute but for example if i turn this off and say no automatic cross fading now when i move this clip you can observe it one clip covers the other but there's no crossfade involved when you put one clip over another it puts this crossfade on there as you go too far it disappears and i was confused about that for the longest time like well why doesn't it keep crossfading well the way wavelab is designed it considers that now an overlapping clip so your fade only goes so far a cool little shortcut they put in place for example once i make a fade if i hold shift i can now kind of adjust the size of that fade which is a nice little option besides the shift if you hold ctrl and do the same kind of thing then it just takes the same size of that area and allows you to move it along the clips so let's talk about fade in constrains overlaps fade out constrains overlaps that term i know when i first heard it was very confusing so think of it this way in fact first of all do this you go up to the fade tab and you go all the way over to the little drop down list which says either free overlaps or the fade in fade out constraints when you're when you see the term fade in constrains overlaps that means the fade in rules just think of it that way and when it says fade out constrains over that that means the fade out rules so for example when you have free overlaps watch this crossfade curve happen as i drag these clips together it creates a crossfade which just keeps on going in the normal crossfade way okay by the same token if i create this small little fades on each one of these clips and because this clip the fade is at the end of the clip this would be the fade out and this clip has the fade in right okay so if i change this option to the fade in constrains like i said the fade in now rules this is the fade in so as i drag this over what's happening is it goes to the point where that fade in is reached and then it goes no further that fade in takes over and controls how the fade ends are if i switch this to the fade out constrains that means this fade out is going to be the determining factor when i move this fade out it's going to reach the point where that fade out and then it's going to control it from that point on so wavelab has this pretty fancy wave matching tool window let me show you this so here we have two uh waves two clips next to each other and sometimes you might move them next to each other and it still the wave may you know not cross exactly where you want it and there may be a click who knows what so you can enact this if you go up to the very top tool windows and come down and it says wave matching and you click on that guy then it opens up this window right here which allows you to basically move the clip over the other one and you'll see it's very very you know zoomed in type of view but as you can see as i move with one clip over the other they both kind of turn into you know a picture up here at that point i can hit this arrow and it will find the best actual crossover point of the wave so it's a really nice feature and it gives you a real smooth crossover point you also have this time stretching option which of course you have to be very careful with because it will change how your audio sounds but something like this you know you have a podcast and maybe you've got 30 seconds that you need to fill exactly at a particular point and you may be just shy of that in your clip what you can do is you can take any clip put the cursor out where you need it to be in this case i'll just go out a few milliseconds out and if you right click on the bottom of the clip you have the option to say time stretch the cursor and when i hit that i get a screen to pick the quality of the clip i just take the defaults but what it does is it redefines the clip and then stretches it out so without doing anything else i can just make my clip a little longer so the last thing to talk about today is you have the ability to pitch shift your clips so if i have a clip like this and i right click on the bottom besides that time stretching we also have this little option that says pitch shifting if i hit that then you can basically just dial in whatever you want so let's say we got this clip let's go up maybe three semitones hit okay and now we have this they have a funny option on here if you go down to the bottom area where there's presets and go down to the factory presets you have some you know quick up and downs but you got one that's called mickey mouse that always makes me laugh let's do that and now we have this [Music] there you go that's it um great options for crossfading and pitch shifting as we move along through all the different uh options available with wavelab and these clips if you haven't grabbed your navigation guide be sure to grab that before you go has links to all the content on the channel ever growing free to use 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