How to Fade Audio in Logic Pro With Ease
Almost all of your audio regions will require fading edits to avoid pops and clicks or to round off transitions. Hours can pass while you fade each audio region during your Logic Pro sessions.
However, if you use the best fading tools in Logic Pro, you can cut hours into seconds. Here, we’ll show you just how.
Fading With the Fade Tool in Logic Pro
Before we look at how the Fade Tool works, fading quickly requires selecting all the regions you want to fade at once. To speed this up, use one or more of the following methods:
Feel free to check out ourbeginner’s guide to Logic Profor more tips if that was new to you. Now, onto the fading.
TheFade Toolsits within yourLeft-click Tool menuand yourCmd-click Tool menu. Use two keyboard shortcuts, and you’ll have it ready to go:
This replaces thePointer Tool—your default left-click tool.
Then, fade your audio by clicking and dragging from either left to right or right to left over the beginning or end of an audio region. If you do so over the beginning of an audio region, you get aFade In. And if you do it at the end, you get aFade Out.
Click and move the top edge of the triangular fade within the audio region to shorten or lengthen it. you may also move your cursor to the middle of the diagonal line of the fade to change its angle to curve inwards or outwards.
Use the regular fade for even transitions. Change the angle to curved outwards for a heavy fade effect; curve it inwards for the opposite. You can create a crossfade by putting a fade across two regions next to each other. These are best to blend one region into another.
The big timesaver is that any fade edits you apply while having multiple regions selected will lead to all your highlighted regions having that fade.
To quickly return to thePointer Toolonce you’re done fading, pressTtwice—the first press opens theLeft-click Tool menu,whereas the second press selects thePointer Tool.
Fading With the Region Inspector in Logic Pro
The other method that you’re able to use hand-in-hand with theFade Toolis fading with theRegion Inspector.
To open it, click on the downwards pointing arrow of theRegion Inspectorin the top-left of your screen. Then, click on theMoreoption at the bottom of the dropdown menu. This reveals theFade In,Fade Out, andCurveoptions for fading.
Double-click next to each of these features to input a value. Experiment to find your favorite values for short and long fades. Negative values in theCurvebox create inward curves; positive values create outward curves. Use theTypedropdown menu to change the form of your crossfades if you want.
Fading in Logic is simple, but don’t forget that you can alsofade audio in GarageBandand iMovie, both of which are free for your Mac.
Don’t Waste Time Fading Audio
Once you learn to use the Fading Tool and Region Inspector, you can complete all your fading edits in seconds. And if that’s not enough, you can also keep all of your tracks and regions well-organized to save yourself even more time while editing in Logic Pro.
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