One of the best ways to take your performance to the next level is to focus
on the space between your songs or transitions. One of the best way to
create great transitions when you're performing with tracks is to create
cross fades between songs. Hey this is what I get today I want to show
you how to cross fade songs in able to live it's super easy to do so let's
get started.
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Now before we get started I have to confess there's no true cross fade
between songs and able to live. Now granted in session me yes we do have
the ability to cross fade and assign songs to a and b but that's typically
what a D.J. would do. Now if you're performing onstage with tracks over
in range of you how do you make that cross fade happen. Now even though
there's no cross fade let's think about what a cross fade is essentially right.
So if song one we have song Two we overlap those two songs. And while song
one is ending or fading out we're fading in two song Two now the way I
used to do this because you couldn't apply fades across multiple clips
was used the utility too I've talked about that before and lots of different
videos and in courses on the site.
But the great thing with an update to Ableton Live 10 is now you can apply
fades across multiple clips. So I want to show you how to apply those principles
and a couple editing tricks to create a cross vein able to live. So let's
dig in and take a look. So in this scenario I've got two songs and right
now they're going back to back right. So the first thing I want to do is
think about when do I want that transition to happen when do I want song
one to start ending as song 2 starts. Now one of my favorite tricks to
do transitions to create great transitions is to think of the transition
from the audience perspective.
This is particularly important in a church setting a lot of you watching
this or worship leaders music directors at churches. So you're thinking
from the congregation standpoint what I often see people do is think about
the song from what they hear in their ears right. The song ends
They've got to wait for the next click to start. And so they build the transition
that way. But what I often find is by nudging it a little bit further even
muting the click creating the transition and then pressing play and again
listening from the audience or the congregation perspective helps you make
a great transition now because I know these two songs I know I want to
trim about four measures at the end of my first song to start my click
early for the next song.
So here's what I'm going to do is select those four measures and arrange
a view and I'm going to use the delete time shortcut. This is my favorite shortcut.
One of my favorite shortcuts in a range of view and all we do to do this
is Command shift delete. Now if you don't know the edit time commands in
our interview I would encourage you to really check those out. I've linked
to the video below in the previous video where we talk about editing your
song and an interview. Those are worth even maybe pausing this video and
going to watch that one. So using delete time you'll notice what happened
is I deleted time in those songs kind of moved to where they're now right
against each other a little closer.
First thing I want to do after delay any time is go back and bring out
the four measures that I previously deleted from the track. Super easy
to do something to unfold this group and then I'm going to drag and select
all of the clips that I previously had. So let's get all those selected
then I'm going to drag them back out for measures. So let's just put our
mouth to the right here. The end of the clips or near one two three four.
So now I have the original length of that song and if we close this group
down you'll see what's happening we've overlapped the songs now.
That's step one. And if you're sung naturally has a fade out and the next
song naturally is a fade and that might be enough for you. But I want to
take it a step further and actually apply a fade out and then a faded.
So let's open our group track back up one more time. So now let's apply
our fade at the end of this song. So what I'm going to do is select the
amount of time that I want the fate to be so I kind of want it to fade
out across those four measures. So I'm going to select the last four measures
the song we're gonna go up make sure we have all of them and I'm going
to use my create fades shortcut.
So that's command option F and when I do that you see what it does is automatically
apply a fade out of all those tracks at one time. Now let's do the same
thing we did for Song 1 but in inverse so as opposed to fading out we want
to fade in. So I'm going to expand my group and I want to select again
for measures something to start here at the top and we're going to go reform
measures and then make sure we get all of this stems at the same time.
Now one trick I've learned in doing this and I've heard from a lot of people
that say I'm trying to create fades and it's not working across multiple clips.
If you're clips are grouped make sure you don't grab the group track as
well as the stems. Just get the stems. So in this case you can see I didn't
start with that first track. This is dream 95 BPM I started with the dream
stems 793 band as a starting place. Now with those forms you're selected
I'm going to do the same command command option F and that's going to apply
my fade in. So now if you visually look at this song one is ending and
his song one is ending. Song 2 is starting to fade in so that's an easy
way to create a cross fade between two different songs and able to live
even when you have your stems grouped per song.
Like I have here. So if you were to learn more about using able to live
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of material we have about using able to live in a playback situation on
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