Reference Guide

1586 Dialog box reference

Create Fx Envelopes dialog

If you have already patched an automatable effect into a track, you can right-click in the Clips pane

and choose Envelopes > Create > (name of the effect you patched) to open a dialog box

containing a list of the effect’s automatable parameters. You can create or delete an envelope for

each parameter by checking or unchecking its check box.

If you patched the effect into a bus, you can open the same dialog box by clicking in the Bus pane

and choosing Create > (name of the effect you patched).

The dialog box has the following fields:

Envelope Exists list

This is a list of all the automatable parameters for this effect—the ones with checkmarks already

have envelopes. You can create new envelopes by checking more check boxes, or delete existing

ones by unchecking check boxes.

Choose Color button

Click this button to choose colors for any envelopes whose names are highlighted and checked in

the list. When you highlight the name of a checked envelope in the Envelope Exists list, the current

color of that envelope appears above the Choose Color button; click the Choose Color button and

choose a new color for the highlighted envelope. If you want the same color for several different

envelopes, you can highlight as many names at one time as you want by dragging through them,

SHIFT-clicking them, or CTRL-clicking them.

For more information, see:

“Automating effects” on page 1036

Crossfade dialog

The Process > Apply Effect > Crossfade command lets you specify accurately the shape of a

crossfade for a selection, clip, or track. This is a destructive edit—it permanently alters the data that

you apply it to. To apply a nondestructive volume change to selected data, see “Creating and editing

automation envelopes” on page 1019.

The Process > Apply Effect > Fade/Envelope command opens the Crossfade dialog box, which

has the following fields:

Name

This field contains a drop-down menu of different graphical shapes for the crossfade volume. The

options are:

• Exponential Crossfade. This option causes the selected audio to change volume rapidly at

first, but much slower toward the end of the crossfade.