← Music Tech Studio1.6 EditingEdit bench
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Vocal · 30 ms windowThe join above; the paper's drawing below on the same time axis: fade out and fade in as gain, the crossfade bracketed. Drag inside the drawing to read both gains.
Presets
Cut at 2.500 s, with 0.00 s removed after it: region A ends at the cut and region B starts 0.00 s later in the take. The two sides meet 0% of full scale apart.AO3A small jump, 0% of full scale: a tick rather than a pop, and still a mark lost. The 2024 report: candidates "usually failed to create smooth edit points, therefore resulting in unprofessional clicks". Snap it or fade it.AO4Write it in that order in the exam. Naming the fault and its cause is AO3; what it does to this take, whether the edit is clean, and what you would change are AO4, and the practical marks are all AO4.
Level
Play runs the pattern round two bars. Hold: dry plays the untouched take from the same point, so you can hear what the cut removed or the fade changed. The space bar plays and stops.
Take
a splice
Two takes, two edits. The vocal is a splice: a held note shortened by removing a section, so the join has a sound on both sides. The cymbal is a trim: one region ended, with silence after it, on a sound that decays for longer than it looks.
Cut2.500 s
where the region ends
Where region A ends. The small drawing is the last two milliseconds of A against the first two of B, and the coral bar between them is the jump a hard cut makes there. Zero crossing moves the cut to where the wave comes up through the centre line, on both sides, so there is nothing to jump.
Fadenone
a hard cut: no fade
A crossfade: region A fades down while region B fades up, across this many milliseconds centred on the cut. Ten milliseconds removes a click; a few hundred is a transition you can hear. The shape decides the level through the middle: linear dips, equal power holds.
What you should hear
…jump at the cut
…dip through the fade
…removed after the cut
…region B starts
all from the samples and the dials
Privacy
Every number here comes from the samples and the dials: how far apart the two sides of the join sit, how much the level dips through the crossfade, how much of the take the edit removed or cut off, and where region B starts or where the cymbal is actually silent.