I know Shane. I helped him out over the phone last night. I, also, have
experience that same problem that he and you were experiencing. he was also
wanting to fade out a cymbal crash at the end of the track he was working on.
To get his desired result, we had to incrementally fade out the end of the
track. First, fade out the last 20 seconds of the song, then fade again the
last 10 seconds of the song. This creates a kind of a logarithmic fade out that
can be done in gold wave with one setting, but this is the technique I use to
achieve this kind of fadeout in audacity. there may be a plug-in for this
technique, but I did not know about it. So, we did it manually. Fortunately it
only took two fades. Sometimes it takes more.
Ted Galanos
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On Sep 1, 2020, at 3:25 AM, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Shane
Sounds very much like you have inadvertently selected the whole song. A
potential trap is to have audio selected when you think it isn't. While some
think I am ultra-conservative, I often go to the end of the track by pressing
k and then to the beginning with j. In your case, reverse the order as you
want to be at the end. As David suggested, pressing shift+left arrow enough
times will highlight from the end. My level of impetuosity frowns on that
approach, but it works. You could press shift+comma which takes you back in
15 second increments by default. Then play to the point where you want to
start fading and press x to stop. You could then use shift+k to select to
the end of the track, provided the song finishes pretty much at the end of
the track. Alternatively, play until the song finishes and hit right bracket
(]).
I can remember having similar issues.
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Shane Christenson
Sent: Tuesday, 1 September 2020 7:40 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] editing a small selection of audio for fade-out
Hi all. I'm trying to fade out the end of a song I'm working on, and I elect
the part of the audio that I want to fade, but when I go to do the fade-out,
and play back the result, the fade-oout starts at the beginning of the song
instead of at the end where I want it. Any help would be most appreciated.
Shane
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