How to remove attack from a sound?

Something I just thought I wanted to try but don't know how to achieve. I want to record piano (or maybe other instruments) but without the attack, so that you hear very smooth tones which are harder to define (to define what sound it exactly is and in what rythm it's exactly played). Like you fade in a sound quickly after you hit the key.
Of course you can do that manually for the first tone, but is there a way to do it for a whole segment of recorded material? I'm defenitely not good in editing and such things but really want to learn more about it.
Oh yeah FYI: I have a simple DAW called Mixcraft 6 which I use to process recordings.

If you can record in MIDI, it would probably be easiest to do that and find a soundfont that has the fade in you want.

For non-MIDI instruments and if you want to keep the sounds separate, the only way I can think of would be to record every note or chord separately, add the fade in to each manually and arrange and mix them in the DAW. Probably too much work to worth it.

Or maybe you could try playing the piece backwards, let everything fade out and reverse the track.

If you don't mind the sounds blending together, you could just add a lot of reverb, echo, delay etc. and then compress until the volume is even throughout the track.

Vompatti wrote: Or maybe you could try playing the piece backwards, let everything fade out and reverse the track. If you don't mind the sounds blending together, you could just add a lot of reverb, echo, delay etc. and then compress until the volume is even throughout the track.

I want to give these a try, albeit for the sense of experimenting and the curiosity of the outcome.

It has been a few years since I've touched the audio sound field but I remember I used to decay the attack of instruments by using a compressor. If you know how to play with it than I'm pretty sure you'll be able to do what your trying to.

Just use automation feature of the DAW to edit the soundtrack:

Edited by Dean - August 16 2016 at 01:19