@sezare56
Quoting the OT manual below for convenience.
I know you are an OT maestro (mad respect), but I am trying to reconcile what you are saying with what the manual says.
The way I read the manual is that the OT, when using FIN and FOUT, is indeed creating a fade, with a length specified in sequencer steps. It is not simply adding silence.
FOUT does, indeed, add time at the end of the sample, but I do not see why that is a problem, since the sample will be looping and not playing that portion. And, I reckon it makes sense to start the fade at the end of the recorded audio and add the time. I mean, why start the fade inside the recorded audio if you donāt need to? The way they implemented FOUT seems to make sense to me, but I am not an audio expert.
@sezare56
They are just crap. Minimum value for FIN eventually. Increasing value (in steps) just add silence and doesnāt change the fade to a progressive curve.
FOUT is even worse because it changes recording length. Increasing values add silence too. Maybe usable with minimum value with Pickups in overdub mode.
Elektron manual:
FIN applies a fade in when starting the recording. The value is expressed in sequencer steps. Applying
a very short fade in can be used to avoid clicks that otherwise might occur when a recorded sample
loops.
FOUT applies a fade out to the recording. The value is expressed in sequencer steps. The fade out is
added after the recording stops. If for example recording occurs for 16 steps and FOUT is set to 2, the
total length of the sample will be 18 sequencer steps. This parameter behaves differently for Pickup
machines. In this scenario the fade out will be applied to the beginning of the captured loop.