My guess would be:Okay, I generated a 0.01 Hz sine wave that takes around 1 min 40 seconds to complete only one cycle. I added a fade-out, that was shorter than half its cycle, and as you see, it still does not introduce any distortion. If we consider fades some form of amplitude modulation, how is it then that an amplitude modulation (in this case: fade-out) that is shorter than one cycle of a waveform, still does not introduce any distortion?
Everytime you do something "live" with the volume on a signal while the sequencers is playing, it does distort the waveform...
Every form of signal manipulation over time is some kind of "Waveshaping" ... there is imho no other way... other than smoothing it out over a longer period of time which would go really into the noticeable "laggy" realm
A fade on the clip though is probably precalculated as it´s a permanent setting on the clip so it´s not happening in realtime = no "waveshaping" = clean to read for an analyzer
And now we are coming to the main part:
1. is there any way to make this "distortion" hearable?
2. Ist it even there or just an artifact of how analyzers work with there analysis windows?
3. If it´s there, is it probably less "distortion" but more some kind of "Jitter" of the moved parameter not at least because of how automation in any DAW works (not per sample but per buffer... could be another reason why it´s not happening on the (precalculated) fade out)?
I think the problem is perhaps a mixed bag within those and probably not worth to break your head upon...
If you can´t hear it... and I bet you don´t... why worrying??
There are for sure much more and much intense negative side effects of audio manipulation happening all the time than a tiny bit of "waveshaping" far below the hearable range...
Statistics: Posted by Trancit — Sat Feb 22, 2025 5:07 am