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Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.

Name: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.
Uploaded: 2025-01-16T18:08:11+00:00
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of the "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class" tutorial, the instructors walk through the six corner controls that appear on any…

16 Jan 2025 · 2 min

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In this segment of the "Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class" tutorial, the instructors walk through the six corner controls that appear on any audio or MIDI clip when automatic fades are enabled. They explain each corner’s function: the top‑left and top‑right corners adjust the fade‑in length, the bottom‑left and bottom‑right corners adjust the fade‑out length, the top‑center corner controls a volume fade‑in, and the bottom‑center corner controls a volume fade‑out. A central dot in the middle of the clip lets users sculpt the fade curve for finer shaping. The presenters demonstrate how to enable or disable automatic clip edge fades via the Record → Warp and Launch → “Create fades on clip edges” setting, and they show how to effectively mute a fade by dragging the corner all the way to the side or zooming in to set a millisecond‑long fade. The overall message is that these built‑in fade tools provide quick, visual control over clip transitions without needing separate automation lanes.

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It's there somewhere.
Okay, so let's go back to our other corners now.
So our opposite corner of that does the same thing. It can open it back up.
Okay, our other four corners, this one
here is going to let us just draw a built in fade.
Okay.
This is our volume fade.
And the corner at the bottom is going to let us tighten up that
fade a little bit by making it longer or shorter.
So I guess in a way this one right now is doing the same
thing that up here does,
except it's giving us a little control over that fade.
We have a dot in the middle
where we can kind of sculpt that fade just a little bit.
Right.
So these fades should be automatically on. So any clip, you can put the
mouse over it and get these fades.
Okay.
And the opposite sides are the same.
Okay.
You can do that if you want.
Now if you don't have these fades automatically, you might need to go to
your settings window and go to Record,
Warp and Launch and then down to
create fades on clip edges.
Make sure that's turned on if you
want this, if you don't want this
feature, then turn it off, but make sure that's on.
And then you'll automatically have these fades
on the edge of any clip.
Okay.
And if you don't want to hear them once, you can always just smash
them all the way to the side
and then they're virtually gone. They're actually gone. They're not doing anything.
Or you can make them just milliseconds
long by zooming way, way, way in. So it's a nice feature to have.
Alright, so that's what our six corners do. On the clips, the headers bring out
deleted info from your clip. And then in the clip, these draw our fades and the bottom ones control
the bottom of the fade, really.