Crossfading Notes/Cord Progressions in The Midi Editor

NickySoo wrote on 7/4/2022, 5:22 PM

Hi, thanks in advance. I'm using MMM 2022. I'd like to be able to crossfade notes or chord progressions using the midi editor so that they graduate smoothly into each other for relaxing feeling transitions, rather than having notes/chords starting and ending. I can't find how to do this in the midi editor itself. So I tried creating several objects of say 4 bars on the track, and then crossfading in the usual way like you might do with a premade loop (by overlapping them and you get a smooth transition). But when I try to crossfade the objects created in the midi editor, the second note or cord in the overlap doesn't play at all. I've tried this with many instruments. So how do I crossfade midi editor notes/chord progressions? Can it be done in the midi editor itself? Because it's not working on the track for the reason I said. Thanks again.

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SP. wrote on 7/4/2022, 5:42 PM

@NickySoo If you crossfade MIDI objects you crossfade their velocity. That means that the velocity at the beginning of the fade and the beginning of the second object is zero and therefore you cannot hear anything.

To slide in MIDI from one chord to another the VST instrument must support legato transitions and not all can do this. This is probably also not what you want because a slide is not a fade.

I have two ideas:

Create two tracks, each with the same VST instrument. Place your first MIDI object on track 1, your second on track 2, your third on track 1, your fourth on track 2 and so on. Then draw a volume automaton curve to fade the objects in and out.

Or you could export your chords as audio, re-import the audio files and crossfade them like every other loop. This should also work fine.

NickySoo wrote on 7/5/2022, 6:11 AM

@SP. Thanks so much! I went with the solution to export each chord then I can keep them and use them for other tracks later. They do indeed crossfade now.