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Cutting intros in crossfade mode

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littlenick:
Hi,
I think I've made clear elsewhere what a wonderful feature crossfade is IMO!
Still what I miss (apart from beat matching) is the option to cut lengthy intros - that is to start the follow-up song somewhere
at e.g. 60 or 90 seconds into this song instead of fading it in from the very start.
Particularly House music tracks often take 1 minute or more "to get going" after an intro that's mostly percussion. It can be a real party killer to play out these tracks in full length.
Likewise I'd appreciate if outros could be cut somewhat more than the 15 seconds available now (which means that I can start fade out of the preceeding song only 15 seconds before its "natural" end).

Greetings,
Tom

saratoga:
How would this work?  Have an option to cut every song down by 60 seconds?

littlenick:
Sorry, just saw too late I posted on this before and started a new thread.
How would this work? Well, why not offer a cut off option for intros and outros in the cross-fade menu.
To date crossfade allows me to choose how many seconds before the end of a song to start fade in of the next song.
If I could choose start fade-in up to 120 seconds before the end of the current song and finish the crossfade in  - let me say - 15 seconds - this means the last 105 seconds of the current song's outro could be cut out.
Likewise, if I could start the next song not with the first note but someplace like up to 120 seconds into it, I could do without the boring tk-ch, tk-ch, tk-ch of drums and intro before the song really gets going.
If you listen to full length house mixes you will know what I mean - if you listen to Beetoven only, you will probably not.
Cheers, Thomas

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