Click on the Snap Drop-down Menu at the top right of the Arrange area..
Select the Grid value to snap to (e.g. Beat) and check the option to Snap Automation
Automation Edits always snap to Absolute Value regardless of the ‘Snap to Absolute Value’ status.
* This is especially useful when performing edits, if previously, you have written Automation Data via Touch or Latch modes on the fly and need events to trigger precisely on the beat. Bypass or Solo are good examples.
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Tags: Arrange, Automation, Time
1) With the Tempo Track visible, set locators to fit the Tempo Changes that you want to copy, beginning at the first tempo change and ending at the last tempo change… (in the example below there is a tempo change at every 1/16 note position from bar 129 to bar 161).
2) Click on the Tempo Track Header (Mouse Tool changes to Hand ‘Grabber’) to SELECT the Tempo Changes inside Continue reading »
Tags: Arrange, Global Tracks, Tempo, Time
1) Open the Tempo Operations Function via Options > Tempo > Tempo Operations
2) Select ‘Scaling Existing Tempo Changes’ from the Operation Menu and choose a range in position (bars, beats, divisions) or by time
(I have whacked in some tempo changes in the tempo track for demo purposes and Continue reading »
Tags: Arrange, Automation, Global Tracks, Tempo, Time
Select the desired region and choose either of the following commands:
To create one node at each end of the selection area.
Options > Track Automation > Create 2 nodes at region border.
To create two nodes at each end of the selection area.
Options > Track Automation > Create 4 nodes at region border.
I use these commands so frequently that I have set up Key Commands as follows…
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Tags: Automation, Nodes, Region, Selection
An invaluable feature is creating 4 nodes - 2 each side – while making a rubber-band selection to edit an area of automation data.
1) Hold Shift Control Option while dragging the pointer tool to make your selection.
2) You can now adjust the line between the newly created nodes up and down to create instant change at the nodes positions.
More often than not you will want to place these nodes either side of a region.
If so simply select the region and go to Options > Track Automation > Create 4 Nodes at Region Border.
Set up a Key Command like I have if you use this function often…
Holding down Option and Shift while rubber-banding a selection will create 2 nodes (one each side).
or… simply select a region and use the key command for 2 nodes at region border.
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Tags: Arrange, Automation, Hot-Keys, Nodes, Region, Selection
The Automation Event List can only be opened via the Automation Event list Key Command.
The default Key Command is Control Command E.
The list is useful for editing Track Automation Data in an event list, similar to the standard Event List used for editing MIDI (Region Based) Automation data.
You can view and edit Continue reading »
Tags: Arrange, Automation, Event List
Here is a link to demo videos of Logic Pro controlled by the Euphonix Series Artist Series Control Surfaces.
Tags: Automation, control surface, Demo
I recently engineered a mix where I had to write detailed automation data onto the Stereo Bus Track (Out 1-2 in your Mixer Pane) due to the increasing complexity of the session.
There came a point where I wanted to rearrange sections in the arrangement in order to shorten and tighten it up.
Problem: When selecting Inside Locators and moving or deleting the Continue reading »
Tags: Automation, Aux, Bus
When a region’s length and groove are determined via multiple tempo changes, all tempo changes must be accommodated for in every region repetition to playback properly.
For example, I mapped multiple tempo changes to create a MIDI region that has a funky Continue reading »
Tags: Arrange, Automation, Region, Tempo, Time
Don’t forget you can add mono effects to stereo objects simply by doing the following:
Hold down Option + click the plug-in bar on a stereo audio object.
Now you can choose between a Continue reading »
Tags: Channel Strip, Effects, Plug-in
