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Automation
The Suspend options
The parameters or parameter groups selected here are
excluded from the reading or writing of automation data –
giving you full manual control of these parameters.
Ö Note that the Others options refer to all parameters
not covered by any of the options Volume, Pan, Mute, EQ,
Sends or Inserts.
Suspending Write
Imagine the following situation: To help you concentrate
while working on a particular track, you mute several other
tracks. However, because automation Write is active on
these tracks, this mute state is also automated during the
next automation pass – a classic situation in mixing.
To avoid inadvertently excluding whole tracks from your
mix in this way, you can exclude Mute from all automation
writing. Simply click Mute below the Suspend Write but-
ton in the Suspend section on the Automation panel.
• To suspend the writing of automation data for all param-
eters/parameter groups, click the Suspend Write button
at the top of the section.
When any of the options below the Suspend Write button are enabled,
clicking Suspend Write will disable these buttons.
• When an automation pass is in progress for a particular
parameter and you write-suspend this parameter, it will
punch-out of the automation pass.
Suspending Read
Imagine you have already automated several tracks. While
working on the current track, you want one of the other
tracks to be louder, to better identify a particular position
in your audio material. By suspending Read for the volume
parameter, you regain full manual control and can set the
volume to the required level.
• To suspend the reading of automation data for all pa-
rameters/parameter groups, click the Suspend Read but-
ton at the top of the section.
When any of the options below the Suspend Read button are enabled,
clicking Suspend Read will disable these buttons.
The Show options
The Show options on the Automation panel always affect
all tracks. Clicking on these buttons opens the automation
tracks for the corresponding parameters, e.g. volume or
pan. This makes it easy to look at your EQ settings on sev-
eral tracks, for example.
• When you click either Volume, Pan, EQ, Sends or In-
serts, this will open the corresponding automation track(s)
for all tracks.
The automation tracks will be opened even if no automation data was re-
corded on these tracks.
• For parameter groups (i.e. Pan, EQ, Sends and Inserts)
you can step through the individual parameter sets by re-
peatedly clicking the respective button.
• When the Used Only button is enabled, clicking one of
the options will show you only the automation tracks for
which automation data has already been written.
“Empty” automation tracks will not be displayed.
• When you click Show Used, only automation tracks that
contain automation data will be displayed.
• Hide All will hide all open automation tracks.