Operation Manual

ADOBE AUDITION 3.0
User Guide
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Automating mixes
Techniques for automating mixes
By automating mixes, you can change mix settings over time. For example, you can automatically increase volume
during a critical musical passage and later reduce the volume in a gradual fade out.
Adobe Audition provides several techniques for automating mixes. You may find that one method bests suits your
working style and audio content. Typically, however, you’ll probably use a combination of these techniques:
• To manually automate clip volume and pan settings, use clip envelopes.
• To manually automate track volume, pan, and effects settings, use track envelopes.
• To dynamically automate track settings while mixing, record track automation.
About automation envelopes
Automation envelopes visually indicate settings at specific points in time, and you can edit them by dragging edit
points on envelope lines. With volume envelopes, for example, the line represents full volume at the top, and zero
volume at the bottom.
Envelopes are nondestructive, so they don’t change audio files in any way. If you open a file in Edit View, for example,
you don’t hear the effect of any envelopes applied in Multitrack View.
Clip and track envelopes in the Main panel
A. Clip envelope B. Track envelope
See also
“Automating clip settings” on page 203
“Automating track settings” on page 204
Automating clip settings
With clip envelopes, you can automate clip volume and pan settings. You can identify clip Volume and Pan envelopes
by color and initial position. Volume envelopes are green lines initially placed across the top of clips. Pan envelopes
are blue lines initially placed in the center. (With pan envelopes, the top of a clip represents full left, while the bottom
represents full right.)
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