I've had a lot of difficulty with getting rid of pops and clicks within ImpactXT and SampleOne. With the help of SO Support, I finally realized there are two primary problems:
- Using Audio Bend to chop samples as slices with autofades enabled does not bring the edited chop into ImpactXT or SampleOne correctly. While the sample slice itself is imported, the autofades are completely ignored. Why? If I specified an autofade on an audio slice, it was for a purpose. It would be ideal to maintain those autofades when importing these slices into ImpactXT or SampleOne. Without the autofades on a stereo slice, pops and clicks will occur in ImpactXT or SampleOne.
- Secondly, it would be ideal to be able to specifcy autofades within ImpactXT and SampleOne themselves. It's impossible to get a perfectly clean zero crossing with stereo samples in ImpactXT or Sample one. If I am unable to import a slice with pre-specifed autofades from the arrange window, then I should be able to do so after the import directly within these two instruments.
Autofades are critical, particularly for stereo samples where a perfect zero crossing is going to be next to impossible.
As a interim fix, I'm either A) bouncing stereo slices w/ autofades to a new rendered track, then using those bounces or B) bouncing stereo to mono to ensure when I import into ImpactXT or SampleOne that I get a clean zero crossing. Neither of these workflows is ideal.
I'd love to see this improved functionality for autofades in the arrange window as well as in the ImpactXT and SampleOne instruments. Autofades are crucial to sampling.