Creating Default Sections Of A Performance By Collecting Clips Into Scenes

This is a section of my set containing three scenes. This particular piece is a transition from one instrumental to another with some vocal ad-libs.

• Scene 1- In the first row I have an instrumental ‘tell me’ playing and the last clip of ‘Miss Fat Booty’ acapella, which has been playing together (with variations) from the start. I have slowed and faded out Miss Fat Booty after one beat for this last clip and added some simple ad-libs from Mary J to start transitioning to another track.
• Scene 2- In the second row I have still got my tell me instrumental playing and I have done a variation on the Mary J ad-libs so it changes just slightly, The second column instrumental doesn’t come in yet.
• To make the transition I played the first instrumental clip and decided when I wanted that to fade out and when I want the second one to come in. I want them to overlap each other as they sound good playing together for a little while. As my 2nd clip is only 2 bars I have unlinked it and taken the end marker in the envelope mode to 4 bars so I can start to fade in this clip about half way through the first one (which is already 4 bars). I now played them both together altering the fade in for the 2nd clip, then altering the fade out for the first clip. Mary J is still singing her ad-libs all the while!
• The fade in for my 2nd instrumental increased to full by bar 2. The audio is not visible as it’s unlinked
• Scene 3- Now the first clip has faded out I’m left with just the 2nd clip playing for my next scene and Mary J ad-libs which variates again to sound more like the clip in scene one. It sounds familiar again like it did before the transition, but now with a different instrumental. This is how my default scenes helped me achieve my mix.

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