Blending two separate pieces of audio

[madmeesh]

EZ

Say I want to string a bunch of bounced audio files together and make the blend seamless. I have used audacity and zoomed in to physically draw the waveform, and it has worked to a varying degree, but I wondering if there were some nifty tricks for this.

I'm imagining some kind of cross-fade that morphs one bit of audio into the next. Does this exist?

[deadly_habit]

crossfade with blurring or timestretch or beat blending aka dj skills
add with comps
aka mess with ableton

[drake89]

if you drop them into ableton all next to each other, ableton automatically crossfades them to a degree, like 10ms or some small value like that. if it sounds bad though don't do it.

[nowaysj]

Mad, what daw do u use? Don't be telling me u use audacity, I'll come up there and smack the skill off u.

Almost every daw I know has the ability to autocrossfade even audioanemic flstudio. And that is just auto. You can do manual volume or filter fades blends.

Wht r u really Asking?

[madmeesh]

I use Logic, damnit!

Yes yes, crossfading and using filters has occurred to me. I was really asking if there was a program out there with an algorithm that had some more colorful and musical morphing options. I suppose I can design my own effects by splitting the audio into frequency bands... just like a DJ would... derr.

[nowaysj]

Oh, logic, well, I'll come up there and smack you anyway I know some synths are capable of multiplying oscillators together, as opposed to just adding the audio together, as in a normal crossfade. Whether those synths can load audio into their oscillators is something maybe you should tell us. I know Gladiator can multiply oscillators... hm, what other synth was I looking at the other day that can do that... maybe Surge, maybe one of discodsp's synths/sampler, maybe it was Helix, certainly Alchemy can do something like this?

Colorful and musical morphing options... still don't know what you mean. I've heard of ableton dj templates for the apc 40 that rather than just doing a crossfade like programatically first pull out the lows then the highs then the mids, or some such thing. Like all that eq is just automatically part of the (volume) crossfade. Honestly, still don't really know what you are asking, though it seems like you've got a notion of the sound. I know you can use a piece of audio as an impulse response, and you can send audio through that, and sort of morph into it...

You mac assholes have this: http://www.metasynth.com/uisoft_mirror/ ... ynth01.mov

There is this, I'm sure would be capable of musically morphing audio together: http://karmafx.net/?id=1

There are a lot of options out there.

[madmeesh]

As ever, noways, thanks a lot.

rather than just doing a crossfade like programatically first pull out the lows then the highs then the mids

I think this is it! Making the two bits fit into each other like two combs, rather than just a simple crossfade. I should be able to achieve it with filters and automation.

[Earjax]

I use Logic, damnit!

Yes yes, crossfading and using filters has occurred to me. I was really asking if there was a program out there with an algorithm that had some more colorful and musical morphing options. I suppose I can design my own effects by splitting the audio into frequency bands... just like a DJ would... derr.

If you use logic, in the fade out section you can change it to x-fade and another one I forget what its called, change the fade out to either of them, raise the time to a suitable degree, 1200 is usually about enough, and then copy and paste.

[gl1tch]

Check out Prosoniq's Morph. It does exactly what you're asking for.

[madmeesh]

Check out Prosoniq's Morph. It does exactly what you're asking for.

Sweet Ganesh YES! A generous first post, man.