Drawing fades
Seems like there could be some streamlining in the creation of fades. These extra keystrokes have been driving me mad for years.
Fading to a destination value: if you want to create a fade to an existing destination fader entry, you move to where you want and draw the starting fader entry, but then you have to move the cursor away from it, then ctrl-tab back to it in order to draw the fade. Extra steps. I'd sure like to be able to draw that start entry and hit F straight away. (not unlike the way I'd like to be able to draw an automation entry and hit the V key straight away to filter for it's automation type, rather than having to manually move the cursor off the entry, then ctrl-tab back to it, first -- but I digress) This operation would go from four steps to two.
Fading from a start value: say you want to fade from an existing fader entry to a target destination entry. You move down the time line to create the destination entry, then ctrl-tab back to the existing entry and hit F. Nothing happens. Till you manually move off the entry and ctrl-tab back to it again. Then you can hit F and draw the fade. Instead of these five steps, you can actually do it in four with a little forethought by drawing the destination, manually moving the cursor off that entry, then ctrl-tabbing to the start entry and hitting F. However, this one could conceivably be trimmed to three steps.
I guess the commonality with these two is that you can't just ctrl-tab to your entry of interest and hit F -- at some point before drawing the fade, you have to manually move the cursor off of an entry, then ctrl-tab to the entry of interest, adding two seemingly unnecessary steps to the work flow for each such fade you want to draw.
Bob -- any chance this could be streamlined?
UPDATE: to clarify... I'm talking about fader automation that involves values other than 0 dB or -inf dB. Thus my need to draw an entry in each case.
Last edited by Dave Labrecque; 10-20-2010 at 02:57 PM.
Dave "it aint the heat, it's the humidity" Labrecque
Becket, Massachusetts
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