Version 0.5 Updated 08/09/2003

An introduction to crossfade

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We're gonna make an Real Time amplitude crossfade between two planet dust style basses at different pitches.

Download Dusty and get a decent loop - make it continuous without noticable glitch!

Dusty

Now put them both in a preset either via scsi or floppy (this may have happened automatically).

In Preset Edit Course Tune V1 +12 - click 'Next' until you get to a page entitled Voice-RTWin

On the first voice just set the lower fade to 62

On the second voice just set the higher fade to 62

Press Global - Edit All

In Cords Set a source of ModWl with a destination of AmpXfd at amount +100%

Also make sure ModWl isn't assigned to anything that you don't want it to be such as CO2Amt (the default on mine) or turn the amount to 0%

Now when you move the mod wheel it will fade from the normal pitch to higher pitch. In a moment we're gonna set an LFO to the crossfade but first.....

What the settings mean...

Go back to RTWin (Exit)

These settings are actually controller values for the Mod Wheel, LFO, or whatever RT controller you're using.

These settings are...

- asking the mod wheel to give a fade in of volume to voice 1 - from the low setting (the point on the modwl your sound starts to play at all) to the fade-low setting. So in our example it will fade from 0 at it's lowest volume to controller value 62 - it's highest volume. But! If you changed low to 20 the fade would start at 20 and finish at 82.

- asking the mod wheel to give full volume to voice 2 from controller value 0 (the low setting) - but to then started a fade-out from controller value 65 - which is your high setting (the point on the modwl your sound ceases to play at all) minus your fade-high. If we changed high to 100 in voice 2 the fade out would occur at 38 not 65. Get it.

Let's use an LFO