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Mixing 201
separately available for MIDI or keyboard mapping. There are two special scenarios for remote
control with respect to the crossfader:
•A key mapped to any one of the three assignable crossfader positions (left, center or right)
will toggle the crossfader’s absolute left and right positions.
•Mapping to two of the three fields allows for a “snapping back“ behavior when one of the
assigned keys is held down and the other is pressed and released.
Crossfade Assign Buttons.
Each track has two Crossfade Assign buttons, A and B. The track can have three states with respect to the crossfader:
•If neither Assign button is on, the crossfader does not affect the track at all.
•If A is on, the track will be played unattenuated as long as the crossfader is in the left half
of its value range. As the crossfader moves toward the right across the center position, the
track fades out. At the crossfader’s rightmost position, the track is muted.
•Likewise, if B is on, the track’s volume will be affected only as the crossfader moves left
across its center position.
It is important to understand that the Crossfade Assign buttons do not affect the signal routing:
The crossfader merely influences the signal volume at each track’s gain stage. The track can be
routed to an individual output bus regardless of its crossfade assignment. In studio parlance, you
can think of the crossfader as an on-the-fly VCA group.
As with almost everything in Live, your crossfading maneuvers can be recorded into the Arrangement (page 257) for later in-depth editing. To edit each track’s crossfade assignment,
please choose “Mixer“ from the Envelope Device chooser and “X-Fade Assign“ from the Control