Tip 3Īs well as moving controls on instruments and effects while recording to initiate the recording of automation data you can right-click on almost any parameter and from the contextual menu, choose Create Automation Clip. This saves you having to drag or manually copy and paste automation clips from elsewhere.
One of the interesting things you can do here is go to the Current Clip Source tab in the menu and assign the source for the clip to a different automation clip in the project. If you right-click on a track in the sequencer, you can access a menu of commands and this applies to automation tracks in just the same way as regular audio and MIDI tracks. Keep dragging in one direction and you increase the intensity of the repeat of the curve selected, making for example a very rapid on/off step repetition. So you can create graduated sweeps for example, or “stairs” which creates a machine gun effect.
When you then select the handle between the two automation points, clicking, holding and dragging up or down will alter the shape of the curve based on the mode you chose. If you right-click on an automaton point in an automation lane, you can choose a mode for the way the automation is handled.
