[QLab] Relative fade strangeness

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi Michael,

On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Michael Keniger wrote:
>
> So repeated re-runs of Q2 will continually jump to -15 and fade  
> back to 0, instead of adding +15 and then adding another +15.  Same  
> behaviour for Q3 (+15 and back down to 0 over and over).

Correct.  If my prior email describing the behavior led you to expect  
otherwise, my own poor communication skills are to blame and I  
apologize!

So, to sum up, this is *currently* the way relative fades are  
designed to work.

HOWEVER, having slept on it and re-reading the thread this morning, I  
realize that this was probably the wrong design.  It is certainly  
possible to modify the cues so that restarting a relative fade will  
not clear out its prior effects.  And it does seem rather more  
sensible to do it that way.

Those of you on the list for a long time will remember my forehead- 
slapping moment about the defaults for the initial levels of the  
sound cue.  ...well... I'm feeling another slap to the head coming  
on....

But hey, that's what you guys are here for, right--to keep me on track.

> ...and as an extension to this (yes, there's more!) when copying  
> fade cues identical copies are not created because the fader levels  
> within the copied cues set back to the Target Sound cue levels.

Correct.  This was a casualty of adding the "set target from sound  
cue levels" feature.  I'll think about how we can create an  
alternative approach that would let you duplicate the levels of the  
original fade.  Suggestions welcome.  Here's a ticket on good ol'  
reliable Trac:

http://figure53.com/trac/ticket/252

Chris