New shortcut idea!

[91MusisMan]

I have been racking my brain trying to come up with the optimal shortcut for crossfade editing. in my workflow I typically zoom in to the first crossfade on a track and then once I have it where I want it, I move to the next one on that track, but moving to the next one could be as simple as one click and currently it is not. I just came up with a bit of a janky macro workaround but no doubt Fender could perfect this into a sleek key command. Call it "goto next cossfade" and bake it into the command that when you hit it the next crossfade is dead center of the screen! that would be BOMB!

 

[lokeyfly]

Welcome to the forum, 91MusisMan!
I forget where I saw it, as it was like a year or three ago where by tabbing [tab key] went to the next zero cross fade. That always seemed like a good option for such things.

 

[91MusisMan]

Welcome to the forum, 91MusisMan!
I forget where I saw it, as it was like a year or three ago where by tabbing [tab key] went to the next zero cross fade. That always seemed like a good option for such things.

Thanks for the warm welcome!

So pressing tab executes the shortcut “focus next”, which seems to snap the cursor to the next transient and/or Crossfade. But when I am zoomed in, the cursor just disappears, my screen doesn’t follow the cursor position. And having to press it so many times to get past all of the transients to eventually get to the next Crossfade seems a little bit cumbersome. There’s got to be a better way

 

[OutrageProductions]

I've developed two key shortcuts that go to "start of event" and "end of event" and assigned them to F7 & F8. Look into that scenario.
You could maybe further develop it as a macro that locates to the end of event (do your xfade thingy) then TAB into next event transient and on to event end. Or something similar.

 

[Lukas]

A crossfade usually occurs when two events overlap (and have a crossfade applied...). So why not just navigate to the next event start? (Next Event + Locate Selection)

It wouldn't be hard to add a command to my next add-on that locates the next overlap between events on the current track. However, I'm not sure how useful that would be for many users.

 

[91MusisMan]

A crossfade usually occurs when two events overlap (and have a crossfade applied...). So why not just navigate to the next event start? (Next Event + Locate Selection)

It wouldn't be hard to add a command to my next add-on that locates the next overlap between events on the current track. However, I'm not sure how useful that would be for many users.

I’m sure I’m not the only one with this type of workflow. I track all my guitars, I comp all of my guitars, instead of worrying about the crossfades being in the exact correct positions while I’m comping (I find that too much task switching) I wait until I’m ready to reamp the comped DI tracks. At that point I do a final check on all of the crossfades on a given track then dial in a tone then reamp it.

And so at the point that I’m zoomed in and checking all the crossfades, it would be so nice to just skip to the next Crossfade and have the next Crossfade perfectly centered in the screen. It would save time for sure, I can’t imagine I’m the only one that would benefit from this.

Selecting an event and pressing right arrow is what I’ve been doing, adding locate selection doesn’t seem to help with centering the Crossfade, I still have to manually scroll to center it.

I appreciate your response

 

[lokeyfly]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

So pressing tab executes the shortcut “focus next”, which seems to snap the cursor to the next transient and/or Crossfade. But when I am zoomed in, the cursor just disappears, my screen doesn’t follow the cursor position. And having to press it so many times to get past all of the transients to eventually get to the next Crossfade seems a little bit cumbersome. There’s got to be a better way

Hmmm, yeah we all work a little different. In gathering what you need, its my guess you're zoomed in really quite close. Zero cross-fade points are reather close to one another. I suspect you could set scaling shortcuts to accompany how far along they are, then zoom right back in. Or accompany a few ot the suggested key commands to a macro. It would be nice it the playhead simply chased the next point. For my workflow, Id need to know just where that location is. Effectively by zooming out, a bit. Anyway, I hope you get the results you need, and its likely right there (or close).