bbdrmz wrote:...I suspect the function you refer to as to fades is a "dummy" function. In other words an introduction to how fades work...
No, it's a specialised function for a specialised situation. I'm talking about extremely fine fades for very close editing.
To help you understand, I'll give you an example. I recently remixed Stevie Wonder's Superstition. I didn't like the way he hits the kick and snare simultaneously so I painstakingly edited out every kick that was hit at the same time as the snare. The resultant clip looked more like a barcode than a waveform.
Now, if you had done this yourself, what would you do next? Would you be happy to leave it as it is? Because if you did, you would have an audible noise at the front and back of every edited clip. In order to eliminate that, every single clip needs a 10 millisecond fast fade in at the front and a 10 millisecond fade out at the end of the clip. All done manually. In this specialised case, it's not a case of deciding how long you want your fades, because the fade is not really functioning as a fade in this scenario, it's functioning as a clip "cleaner-upper" for want of a better term.
Definitely NOT an "introduction to fades", and definitely NOT a dummy.