Hello,
today I wrote a tool which name says all: Crossfader. I just wanted to be able to crossfade between (send) tracks.
With ASIO and multiple outputs, it is also possible to determine additional send tracks for cueing/prelistening the mixing with headphones. To achieve that, you have to set four send devices: two master and two prelistening sends. Then set per track two send devices: First the prelistening Send with “Keep source” enabled, and then as master with “Mute source” enabled.
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The sliders can be controlled via midi.
I guess the rest of the tool is quite self-explanatory, anyhow any comments, bug reports, ideas welcome. />/>
added keybinding to start the tool via custom key combination (Preferences->Keys->Global->Tools->DJ Tools-Crossfader)
added “Left”, “Center”, “Right” buttons: sets the master crossfader directly to the left, center or right without fading.
added “Ignore” button: if activated, moving the master crossfader sends no values (helpful for controlling the crossfader with midi).
PS: I know there is e.g. the hydra device to crossfade, but the problem is, that on the most left and most right of the crossfader, the volume is higher than in the middle (what is no real crossfade behaviour)
Interestingly, I like the behaviour of operating on the PRE-mix volume (instead of post-mix as I expected) as it ends up working as an ‘intensity’ slider on my compressed and distorted tracks/sends
Looks like a fun tool, but why did you decide to use the really fiddly vb:minislider instead of the full size vb:slider? I’m guessing because vb:slider also has the value changer positioned to the left of it, and that looked a bit weird?
Well, how about this… You can actually provide a height for the vb:minislider to make it a bit easier to grab onto
increased the height of the sliders (thanks to dblue)
added Blockloop section to control blockloop value via midi button
With the blockloop buttons you can switch directly between different blockloop ranges. Useful for making some repeater like breaks.
I needed it for my setup, maybe it is useful for someone else.
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Could a definable keyboard shortcut be added, to make the crossfader instantly fade between A and B, I don’t always have a midi controller available and would like to use this tool for referencing. I’m currently using a hydra with gainers to do this as the slider to switch is always available in the mixer view, using this tool I would need to open the tool every time to do the same.
Good idea, please see the first post for a new version which lets you define a keybinding (Global->Tools->DJ Tools-Crossfader) to show the gui.
I put it on Alt+C
Nice one, Thanks. When saving this tool as part of a song template on reloading the crossfade routing is lost, anyway to fix this or is it not possible?
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