Three of my song fades are garbling for some reason, and I am trying to figure out why.
If you listen to the last 10 seconds of each, the volumes are all over the place instead of a nice fade out (volume meaning audible, faded using expression, CC #11).
For this soundtrack, there are 13 songs total. The other 10 songs fade out fine.
I've checked the event view in Sekaiju and there are no stray expression values that are above the "fade" line, and everything looks okay at first glance. I thought maybe it was being affected by CC #43 (fine tuning for expression) but the other tracks all have "level" CC #43 during the fadeout with no issues.
I load the file in Cakewalk (well, Sonar now :/) and apply the fade using a CAL script after I cut the file to length. Usually it works fine, but for some reason, not with these particular files.
One caveat, that is very difficult for me to check, is that there are 8 channels of percussion, and each of the 3 percussion instruments play on all 8 of the channels, alternating. Same with melodic instruments, 8 channels with every instrument playing across all 8 channels, alternating. So perhaps the different tracks' values are interfering with one another? And if they are, how can I compensate?
After some testing, I determined that it is indeed because of the multitude of tracks playing per channel. The fadeout CAL script bavi_h made for me back in '22 was causing too many controllers to try to act on each channel at one time because of the nature of these particular MIDI files, causing the perceived volumes to fluctuate unexpectedly.
I posted over on the Cakewalk Sonar forum and was able to figure out how to modify the script to only change the existing expression controllers and then remove the temporary controllers. This should solve my issues with this particular soundtrack, which already has one or more expression controller(s) per individual note. For other soundtracks, I may need to use the original unmodified script if the existing expression controllers are not "dense" enough for a smooth fade.
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/91933-solved-can-someone-fix-this-cal-script/#comment-622798