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**TC_Halogen** · 11-26-2011, 10:16 PM

Very nice post, Silvuh. This is definitely a nice, in-depth touch to cutting songs - it's cool that you've even broken down phrases to make an explanation that much more sensible.

EDIT: I can offer a bit of help with song cuts too, but only verbally.

The audio envelope tool is very useful for making cuts to songs that have phrases which end differently. For example, I was charting Feel So Close (Nero Remix) for ITG two or so months ago. When I went to make my cut, I ended up having to work with a section that had a saw gaining in volume with vocals, and a section that had vocals, no building instrument. Both parts came after a phrase that was structured exactly the same in both locations, but the last measure of the phrase was the difference.

So, in order to make the chop correct, I made three stereo tracks and normalized their volumes to go back and equal the volume of the single stereo track. After doing this, I proportionally inverted fades on two of the channels in such a way that the sum of the percentages of audio envelopes held constant at 100%, making the mix seamless. Both tracks had fades on the start and end of it. With all of the audio envelopes being 33% of their original size, the other two vocal tracks were gaining/lowering proportionally, so that the audio didn't sound like it was going through a choppy transition. When the chorus of the song comes in, the switch isn't noticeable.

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11-26-2011, 10:16 PM	#12
TC_Halogen Rhythm game specialist. Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bel Air, Maryland Age: 32 Posts: 19,376	Re: Tutorial: How To Cut Songs Very nice post, Silvuh. This is definitely a nice, in-depth touch to cutting songs - it's cool that you've even broken down phrases to make an explanation that much more sensible. EDIT: I can offer a bit of help with song cuts too, but only verbally. The audio envelope tool is very useful for making cuts to songs that have phrases which end differently. For example, I was charting Feel So Close (Nero Remix) for ITG two or so months ago. When I went to make my cut, I ended up having to work with a section that had a saw gaining in volume with vocals, and a section that had vocals, no building instrument. Both parts came after a phrase that was structured exactly the same in both locations, but the last measure of the phrase was the difference. So, in order to make the chop correct, I made three stereo tracks and normalized their volumes to go back and equal the volume of the single stereo track. After doing this, I proportionally inverted fades on two of the channels in such a way that the sum of the percentages of audio envelopes held constant at 100%, making the mix seamless. Both tracks had fades on the start and end of it. With all of the audio envelopes being 33% of their original size, the other two vocal tracks were gaining/lowering proportionally, so that the audio didn't sound like it was going through a choppy transition. When the chorus of the song comes in, the switch isn't noticeable. (gibberish, etc.) Last edited by TC_Halogen; 11-26-2011 at 10:24 PM..