User Manual

Automation Recording
While the recording of keyframe automation is most commonly associated with either the
onscreen mixer or the Fairlight console, you can also record automation using controls found in
the Inspector, or using the controls of the EQ, Dynamics, and Pan windows, thereby enabling
you to record automation for the various audio effects that you’ve applied to a track.
Recording automation refers to creating high-fidelity data that records changes you make to
onscreen controls and/or Fairlight console controls, in real time as the Timeline plays, that will
then control how those parameters will play back. In this way, you can create a dynamic mix
where different audio level, pan, and EQ, dynamics, and other audio filter settings change over
time to fade swells of music up and down, pan the sound effect of a car driving by from the left
to the right speaker, or slowly increase the strength of a reverb effect applied to foley footsteps
as a character walks into a long, dark cavern.
What You Can Automate
You can record automation for nearly every control in the mixer for channel strips
corresponding to individual tracks, track groups, or busses, including the fader. Additionally, you
can record automation for controls found in audio plug-ins that you use in your mix.
Automation Controls
The automation button, to the right of the transport controls, lets you show and hide the
Automation toolbar.
Clicking the Automation button displays the automation toolbar
The Automation toolbar has buttons for each option that’s available for preparing to record
automation in your mix.
Options found in the Automation toolbar
The Automation toolbar displays the following options:
 Automation: Controls how automation data is recorded.
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Write: Records absolute changes to control automation.
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Trim: Records relative changes to control automation in order to increase or reduce
levels that have already been recorded.
 Touch: Defines what happens when you first adjust an automatable control.
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Off: No automation is recorded.
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Latch: Automation is recorded once you begin moving a control and continues
recording after you release the control.
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Snap: Automation is recorded once you begin moving a control and stops recording
after you release the control; there is a brief interpolation from the last level you set
to the prior recorded level.
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