How would I make my song have a diminuendo (a fade out over the last two bars)? This is what I have so far for this portion, but I can't get it to work. Thank you very much for your help in advance, it is greatly appreciated!

fadeOut = input('Do you want the song to fade out?(y/n)-->','s');
if (fadeOut == 'y')
    dim = linspace(1,0.2,setRate*(2*setBarLength));
    song = song(dim);
elseif fadeOut == 'n'
    song;
end

[Stephen23]

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Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Brandon - I'm not sure what units you are using for your SetBarLength but presumably you want to fade the last

 setRate*(2*setBarLength)

samples from your song array. If that is the case, then you could just do

 if strcmpi(fadeOut,'y')
     N = setRate*(2*setBarLength);
     dimFactors= linspace(1,0.2,N);
     song(end - N + 1:end) = song(end - N + 1:end).*dimFactors;
 end

In the above, we just multiply the remaining N samples of song by the diminuendo factors so that a fade out (of the song) occurs. You may need to adjust this multiplication because I don't know what the dimensions are for song.

Also, note the use of strcmpi for the string comparison.