Xfade and effects

Questions and Answers
1

(students in my course observed) xfade does behave somewhat strange w.r.t. effects?

try this: (expected behaviour, strong (near infinite) reverb, on snare only)

do
  panic
  d1 $ s "clubkick ~ "
  d2 $ s "~ sn:3" # room 1 # size 1

then this: (I expect it to sound the same, after initial 4 cycles)

do
  panic
  d1 $ s "clubkick ~ "
  xfade 2 $ s "~ sn:3" # room 1 # size 1

but it's not (reverb seems cut off at each kick - but that should be in a different orbit?)

2

Could this be related to the erroneous orbit routing when using transitions? I opened an issue here some time ago:

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3

sure looks like it!

the work-around mentioned in that issue is to specify the orbit:

do
  panic
  d1 $ s "clubkick ~ "
  xfade 2 $ s "~ sn:3" # room 1 # size 1 # orbit 1