Which makes sense, we need to tell it who or what to fade. If I hover over the red X it tells me that it has “No Target Cue”. You’ll notice after adding the cue that it’s broken, something’s wrong with it. Since it’s the next action to take after starting the song, I’ll drag the fade cue to occur after the audio cue. So, to fade the cue in I’ll add a fade cue! By dragging and dropping the cue from the tool bar. If I play the cue now we here … nothing … nada. This is simply done by selecting the cue and lowering the master volume to negative infinity, nothing, nada. My next step is to ensure that it starts at a low volume. If I select the file and hit “Go” it starts at full volume right out of the gate. So here I have my workspace with an audio cue already created. You need to 1) have your audio file, 2) start the cue at an inaudible volume, and 3) raise the volume over time. The same steps are necessary in QLab to fade audio in. With my trusty Sony WM-501 plugged into my sound board I would first lower the volume of the sound board so that you can’t hear the music right away, then I would hit play on my Walkman, then over a count of 5 seconds I would slowly raise the volume for all to hear! These scenarios are all just ones I’ve made up. Let’s say I have my Walkman and want to play my favorite Michael Jackson song, Billie Jean, through the sound system of my high school auditorium during prom. I think it helps to understand fading audio cues by thinking through a physical, tangible environment rather than the purely digital world of QLab.
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