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Automation
4. Deactivate Write mode and click the global Read but-
ton (“All Automation to Read Status”) in the mixer com-
mon panel.
Cubase is now in global Read mode.
5. Start playback, and watch the Mixer window.
All your actions performed during the previous playback will be repro-
duced exactly.
6. If you wish to redo anything that was recorded, acti-
vate Write mode again and start playback from the same
position.
• You can have Write and Read activated simultaneously,
if you want to watch and listen to your recorded mixer ac-
tions while you’re recording fader movements for another
mixer channel, etc.
Recording plug-in automation
Every parameter for every assigned effect or VST Instru-
ment can be automated in much the same manner as de-
scribed above.
The following example assumes that you have assigned an
insert effect to an FX channel track (see the chapter “Au-
dio effects” in the separate Plug-in Reference manual),
and describes how to record automation for the effect:
1. Select the FX channel track in the Track list and open
its Inserts section in the Inspector.
If the Inspector is hidden, click the “Show Inspector” button in the
Project window toolbar.
Ö Please note that not all Inspector tabs are shown by
default. You can show/hide Inspector sections by right-
clicking on an Inspector tab and activating/deactivating
the desired option(s).
Make sure to click on an Inspector tab and not on the empty area below
the Inspector, as this will open the Quick context menu instead.
2. Open the control panel for the effect by clicking the Edit
button (“e”) above the insert effect slot in the Inspector.
3. Click the Write button in the control panel to activate
Write mode.
All effects and VST Instruments have Write/Read buttons on their control
panels. These work exactly like the corresponding buttons in the mixer or
in the Track list. In the previous example, we used global Write mode, in
which mixer and parameter changes are recorded on all tracks, but in this
example we’ll use Write mode for one track only.
4. Start playback and adjust some effect parameters in
the control panel.
When you are finished, stop playback and return to the position where
you started playback.
5. Deactivate Write and instead click the Read button on
the control panel.
6. Start playback and watch the control panel.
All actions you performed during the previous playback will be repro-
duced exactly.
Assigning an automated parameter to an automation
subtrack
To select which parameter is currently shown in the auto-
mation track for the FX channel, proceed as follows:
1. Click on the parameter name for the FX channel auto-
mation subtrack.
The parameter name pop-up list is shown containing the automation pa-
rameters for the plug-in. The parameter(s) you previously automated are
indicated by an asterisk after the parameter name in the list.
Automated parameters for the PingPongDelay effect.
2. Select the parameter you wish to view from the para-
meter display pop-up.
The automation curve for the parameter you selected is displayed on the
automation subtrack.
• To view VST Instrument parameters, you use the same
method.
As described earlier, each VST Instrument has two or more automation
tracks – one for the plug-in settings and one for each VST Instrument
mixer channel.