Would love to see an option for walk-on intro songs to be implemented (or interludes within the set) where as the “intro song” plays, it cues up the next song in the set list, and when you hit “play” it simultaneously fades out the intro (with a settable fade time) and starts the next song in the same go. Can be really useful for triggering an indefinitely long walk-on intro song from off stage, and being able to fade it out + go into the first real song as soon as the band is ready, at the click of a single button. It could also be useful in a pre-recorded interlude track situation within the middle of a set.
Hey @vlh,
You can get very close to this behavior with existing tools.
You might want to look at:
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Using a +LOOP (or section loop) for the walk-on / intro part, so it can run indefinitely while the band gets ready.
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Then, when you’re ready to start the actual song, escape the loop and handle the transition using mixer fades via OSC (for example, fading the intro group out while the main song comes in).
With the newer /mixer/<group>/fadeTo <value> commands, you can control the fade timing quite precisely and trigger everything from a single action (MIDI mapping, Canvas button, etc.).
This approach might already cover your use case pretty well.
Let me know if that sounds like it could work for you!
I do a lot of walk-ons in the live shows I build. @agustinvolpe has it right regarding the looping - for the fade in of the main song, you can also use clip fades (my preference) or automation to avoid having to do any OSC stuff.
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Yeah i’ve been doing that as well, especially with drone-y intros, looping a single pad chord so the loop is pretty much unnoticeable, and then once the loop is escaped, the clip fades out. I guess I’m trying to more easily change the intro songs up night after night, and have them be actual recordings of songs (why looping one might sound funny) as opposed to more of an atmospheric paddy thing
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I haven’t dived into the OSC stuff, is there a link or page that goes through the specifics of the mixer fades via OSC? I wonder if, without looping, I can have it that in the middle of the intro song playing, I hit a button, the song fades out at that specific point, and then the first actual song starts.
Hey @vlh,
You could achieve this using a Simpler device on a MIDI track.
Do do this, create one Intro Song song in the arrangement that is about 3 minutes long or however long your longest walk-on song might be, then add a MIDI track and create a MIDI clip with one note on C3 that spans the entire song:
Then, add a Simpler device on that MIDI track and drag your walk-on song into it:
Go to the controls tab, disable everything you don’t need (e.g. Filter, LFO, Pitch Env), set the Velocity → Volume knob to 0%, and set the Release time to however long you want your fade-out to be. I’ve put it around 10s for this example:
Now, when you start the Intro Song, your walk-on song will play and when you jump to the next song, it will fade out over the time you specified while your first song starts playing.
Let me know if that works for you! 
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