When editing your musical creation, many options are at your fingertips for making it line up with the vision in your head. If you’re using the audio mixer called Reaper, this article will explain how to extend that sweet fadeout effect in your song without damaging the rest of the notes around it. Watch a short video tutorial to improve your knowledge on the subject while the author guides you through the steps in real time.
Key Takeaways:
- When artificially extending a fade out on a piece of music, you don’t want to overstretch it, or do anything that denigrates the sound quality.
- A quick and dirty linear fade is often not optimal for sound quality.
- By holding down command, dragging a song fragment with the computer control, then overlapping and remastering it, a gentle, natural fade-out can be achieved.
“Learn how to cleanly extend a note or chord using basic editing techniques: copy & paste; crossfade; and item volume.”
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