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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 The “Others” options refer to all parameters not cov-
ered by Volume, Pan, Mute, EQ, Sends, or Inserts.
Suspend 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 para-
meters/parameter groups, click the All button at the bottom
of the section.
When any of the options in the Suspend Read category are enabled,
clicking All will disable these buttons.
Suspend Write
Imagine the following situation: To help you concentrate
while working on a particular track, you mute several other
tracks. However, because write automations are 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 in the Suspend Write category
on the Automation panel.
• To suspend the writing of automation data for all para-
meters/parameter groups, click the All button at the bot-
tom of the Suspend Write category.
When any of the options in the Suspend Write category are enabled,
clicking All 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.
The Show options
The Show options on the Automation panel always affect all
tracks. Clicking 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 several 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 corresponding automa-
tion tracks for which automation data has already been
written.
• When you click Show Used, all automation tracks that
contain automation data will be displayed.
• Hide All will hide all open automation tracks.