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CHAPTER 17. AUTOMATION AND EDITING ENVELOPES 221
2. You can click on it to reactivate all automation and thereby return to the automa-
tion state as it is written on tape.
17.4 Drawing and Editing Automation
In the Arrangement V iew, automation curves can be viewed and edited as breakpoint
envelopes.
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An Automation
Envelope in the
Arrangement View.
1. To access a track's envelope, unfold the track by clicking the button next
to the track name.
2. Clicking on one of the track's mixer or device controls will display this control's
envelope.
3. The envelope appears on top of the audio waveform or MIDI display. Its
vertical axis represents the control value and the horizontal axis represents time.
For switches and radio buttons, the value axis is discontinuous.
4. The Automation Device chooser either selects the track mixer, one of the track's
devices or None to hide the envelope. It also provides you with an overview
of what devices actually have automation by showing an LED next to their labels.
5. The Automation Control chooser selects a control from the device chosen in the
Automation Device chooser. The labels of automated controls have an LED.