Ralph Hope

10 hours ago, David Baay said:

Just to be clear, the pop is not being 'added'. It's the natural result of truncating a waveform where the amplitude is high. Stopping a high-amplitude signal dead at a zero-crossing will still result in a pop. The issue is not so much where in the cycle you stop the signal, but how fast the signal level is changing when you stop it.

So, if you can't avoid cutting off the signal in a high-amplitude area, you must add short fade in/out. The easiest way to make this happen automatically is to use the Comp tool in lanes to split out the section before muting it. Comp tool automatically creates a short crossfade at split points. It defaults to 5ms which will suffice for most cases, but can be adjusted : Preferences > Customization (Advanced view) > Editing > Auto Crossfade Comps. And if you're actually compiing, Comp tool also lets you mute one section and unmute the corresponding section in the parallel lane just by clicking on the one you want to hear.

Cakewalk as a deep and capable as any DAW out there; you just need to learn it.

 

Fantastic, thanks!  That does exactly what I want. 

Seems to me like the mute tool could also have the option to add a crossfade, but fine, right tool for the right job and all that.  I'm sure it's obvious if you're experienced with DAWs and/or studio recording.  The trouble is that for the complete beginner, without the vocabulary to search for exactly the right things, these things are really hard to find things to find out on your own.  I'm sure 'comp tool with auto crossfade' in google would tell me all about it.  "mute track lanes without pop" and it's variants did not.  

Thanks again!

I've checked it out. This is seriously tedious.  I have a track with multiple track lanes for different takes and want to use different parts from different takes.  It's nightmare doing this with automation.  I think I'm done with cakewalk at this stage, there must be better software out there, that can mute parts of a track without adding sound effects.

Thanks, I'll check it out!  To be clear - it's a pop during a mute.  I'm just not sure why the mute doesn't auto-add a really quick 5ms fade or something.  Surely no-one likes pops?

Hi guys,

I'm sure this has been covered, but I'm new to DAWs and probably lack the terminology to find the answer myself - I have looked.

I'm tying to mute a bar in a clip of guitar.  No matter what I do I get a pop at the start and end of my mute.  It does the same thing if i split the track and delete the bar i need out.  I've tried checking the 'Snap to nearest audio zero crossing' option but it doesn't make any difference. 

Perhaps there is an option to put a quick fade in/out on the mute tool, but I can't find it.  Why the default behaviour is to create loud pops is beyond me though - surely that's not what the majority actually want to have happen?  Perhaps this is normal for DAWs, but as someone coming fresh to it, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Any help would be most appreciated, thanks!