[Vorbis] OFF-TOPIC audio fade curves

Carsten Haese carsten at uniqsys.com
Thu Sep 15 05:13:12 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 22:50, Ross Levis wrote:
> This is off topic but I'm sure many subscribed here may be able to
> help.  I'm writing an audio player, which includes vorbis of course,
> for the broadcasting industry and I need to prematurely fade out songs
> before they have finished.  I've tried a linear and a logarithmic fade
> but neither sound natural to me.

Googling for audio fade curves yields:

http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200309.stupidfadetricks.html

It says there, "For a general-purpose default fade, I really like the
'S' fade: the cosine curve."

Hope this helps,

Carsten.




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