Smooth crossfade plugin for Ableton Live

Smooth crossfade plugin for Ableton Live from basementhum on Vimeo.

basement_crossfade is a very simple mac plugin designed for use in Ableton Live.

It accepts two audio inputs, and a single crossfade control determines the mix sent to its output.

Download the plugin

To run this plugin you'll need to install the free max/msp runtime environment.

If you want to use this plugin in your own creations you can download the max/msp source document.

The plugin is a wrapper for the crossfade~ object from the RTC-lib.

Plugin: Auto Audio Humanize

I've just finished up another small utility plugin in sonic birth (mac only). It's a device designed to randomly delay or advance audio clips in Live by a small amount, though it should work in other hosts too.

There are only two parameters:

Early/late base: sets a kind of base delay for the audio.

Random delay: represents the amount of random delay that is added to the Early/late base value.

The random delay value is re-generated each time the incoming audio drops to digital silence, so it works well for 'monosyllabic' audio clips separated by empty space (if the device is preceded by a plugin that adds a tail to the sound, such as a reverb, the random delay value might not be recalculated before the following sound begins).

Here's a video to give a quick idea of how it works. Here I've duplicated a track containing a pattern of drum hits and applied the Auto Audio Humanizer to the duplicate track. You can hear a phasing effect when the displacement is very small, and a more distinct repeat when it is large.

If you'd like to use the plugin, do the following:

1. If you don't already have it, install Sonic Birth (provides the framework necessary for the plug to work).
2. Install the Auto Audio Humanize component
3. If you want to tinker with the circuit, download the source file