Ableton/Live/UG/18 Mixing/05 Using Live's Crossfader
- Live's crossfader blends between any number of tracks, returns included. Show it from View → Mixer Controls or the mixer view control menu.
- Right-click it to choose one of seven curves.
- It maps to any continuous MIDI control. Its far left and right positions can also be mapped separately: a key on one position toggles between the extremes, and keys on two positions give a snap-back move.
- Each track's A and B Crossfade Assign buttons decide its response: neither, unaffected; A, full volume across the left half and fading to silence at the right; B, the reverse.
- Assignments change only volume at each track's gain stage, not routing — like a VCA group.
- Crossfader moves record into the Arrangement. Edit assignments under Mixer → X-Fade Assign in a track's envelope choosers, and the crossfader itself under Mixer → Crossfade on the Main track.
