Reference Manual

80 Arrangement View
[Delete] returns the fade handle to a default length of 4 ms. With this option enabled, new clips
in the Arrangement View will have these short “declicking“ fades by default.
Automatically Create Short Fades At Clip Edges.
Another result of enabling the Create Fades on Clip Edges option is that adjacent audio clips will
get automatic 4 ms crossfades. These can then be edited just like manually-created crossfades.
There are some limits to the length of fades and crossfades:
•Fades cannot cross a clip’s loop boundaries.
•A clip’s start and end fades cannot overlap each other.
When a fade handle is selected, a dotted red line will appear on the relevant clip to indicate the
limit for that fade handle. This is especially helpful when editing crossfades, because one clip’s
loop boundary may be “hidden“ under the other clip.
Note that fades are a property of clips rather than the tracks that contain them, and are inde-
pendent of automation envelopes (page 257).
6.8 Selecting Clips and Time
With the exception of moving and resizing clips, Arrangement editing in Live is selection-based:
You select something using the mouse, then execute a menu command (e.g., Cut, Copy, Paste,
Duplicate) on the selection. This editing method lends itself to an efficient division of labor be-
tween the two hands: One hand operates the mouse or trackpad, while the other hand issues the
keyboard shortcuts for the menu commands. The menu eventually is only used as a reference for
looking up the keyboard shortcuts.
Here is how selection works: