I'm a complete newbie with SCS, so maybe I've missed something in the documentation. I've got two problems using fades on a cue. Generally, fading in and out are horribly unprecise.
For test purposes, I'm playing a single sine wave, to which I've added a short fade-in and fade-out time (.2 seconds). To rule-out any performance issues, I set the file to pre-load. I tried playback through the onboard soundcard and my Marian Marc 8, using both WDM and ASIO4ALL. Using software or hardware mixer does not make a difference. Obviously I'm using the "SCS internal mixer", or I couldn't use ASIO.
Now, I am experiencing two things
1) I'm not getting a continuous fade-in and out, but the volume increases in rather coarse steps - which somehow makes that feature unusable for short fades for me. The effect happens on all devices, but is worse when using WDM drivers than when I'm using ASIO. Volume seems to change only once per buffer fill? This is okay if you fade over 20 or 30 seconds, but makes short fades impractical. What can I do to improve this?
2) Fade-Out is always cut off early resulting in an audible "click" at the end of the playback. This happens on all devices, too. But playback cuts out earlier when using ASIO. Funny thing is though, on ASIO, it cuts out at the same time DURING the fadeout ... but the fadeout itself starts earlier. Also, despite the fade-out time set to the same value as the fade-in time, and the curve set to "linear" on both, it seems the volume does not go down with the same speed as it goes up.
Gah. It's hard to explain
I used a second computer and recorded the output. I've attached a screenshot with the resulting waveforms with comments ... maybe that'll make it clearer 