Solved fade_in, fade_out

I can't get my head around it:

Code:

active_event_id := play_note( $EVENT_NOTE, $EVENT_VELOCITY, 0, 0 )
fade_in(active_event_id, 500000)
fade_out(active_event_id, 1000000, 0)

How is fade_out meant to be used? It overwrites fade_in and always starts the fade_out at the beginning of the sample ...

Or to put it another way: How else can I have a fade in at the start and a fade out at the end of a sample? And I want to change it at runtime. Is having a group for each sample and controlling the group volume envelope the only way?

 

It's better done with envelopes, yeah...

 

Ok, thanks! And there is no way to do it with zone envelopes in any way? Do I have script access to them?

 

No script access to zone envelopes. However you can actually change the AHDSR parameters before you play a note via KSP. That would work.

 

You mean by doing something like

set_engine_par(ENGINE_PAR_DECAY, some_value, 0, find_mod(0, "ENV_AHDSR"), -1)

But would that work if multiply notes in the same group are played at the same time?

 

This is what I'm currently working on. Maybe that makes it clearer what I'm trying to accomplish ...



fade_in and fade_out would have been perfect if only they worked the way I thought they do ;-)

 

They work just fine, but you need to add wait() in between them if you want to do that. However I still think it's better to do this with an envelope.

 

Just to finish this up: I now use a group for each sample/zone with a group volume envelope where I use attack, hold and decay to create the fades. Works like a charm. Thanks again ED for showing me the way!