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601Logic Pro User Guide
Automate mix and effects settings
Overview of automation in Logic Pro
Automation refers to recording, editing, and playing back the movements of faders, knobs,
and switches. Using automation, you can create changes over time to volume, pan, and
other settings. You can add automation to all track types.
Each track in your project has automation curves for volume and pan, and you can add
curves to automate plug-in settings. To create changes over time, you do the following:
Show the automation curve you want to work on, and choose between track-based and
region-based automation.
Choose an automation mode.
Add automation points to the curve at the start and end points for the change you want,
then adjust the automation points.
You can also snap automation to positions in the grid and edit automation in the
Automation Event List.
Track-based vs. region-based automation in
LogicPro
Logic Pro offers two types of automation: track-based automation and region-based
automation. Track-based automation can be applied to the entire track, from the beginning
to the end of your project. Region-based automation applies only to the specific region
the automation parameters are connected to. With track-based automation, if you re-
record, move, or copy regions (either to another point on the same track or to another
track entirely) the automation data remains tied to the initial point on the track in which
it was created. However, with region-based automation, if you re-record the region,
the automation is lost; if you move or copy the region (either to another point on the
same track, or to another track) the automation remains with the region. Region-based
automation is particularly useful when you are automating instrument parameters.
When using region-based automation with instrument tracks and Drummer tracks, you can
also automate MIDI data for individual notes. In addition, you can also convert track-based
automation to region-based automation and vice versa.
Note: In previous versions of Logic Pro, MIDI Draw was used to automate MIDI data for
individual notes. Region-based automation includes all the functionality of MIDI Draw.