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Tutorial 7—Mixing
Tutorials
Next Step: Automating an Individual Effect’s Settings.
Automating an Individual Effect’s Settings
Let’s draw an envelope to automate one of the flanger’s controls
1. In the Clips pane, right-click in the first guitar track (the track you added
the FxFlange effect to) and choose Envelopes-Create Track
Envelope-FxFlange 1 from the popup menu.
The FxFlange1 dialog box appears.
2. Let’s create only one envelope, even though we could create many: in
the Envelope Exists field, check the Voice 1 Feedback option to create
an envelope that controls the level of feedback on voice 1 of the
FxFlange effect.
3. Click OK (you could choose a color for the envelope before you click
OK by clicking the Choose Color button).
A solid line with 2 nodes (round dots) appears on top of the guitar clip,
one node at the beginning and one at the end of the last clip in the
project. The dotted line after the project ends means there is no
automation data in that area of a track—only nodes and solid lines
represent actual values.
4. Let’s add a node at measure 17 of the guitar track: move the cursor
over the line at measure 17 until a vertical, double-ended arrow
appears under it, and right-click the line.
The Envelope Editing menu appears.
5. Choose Add Node from the menu.
A new node appears on the envelope at measure 17.
6. Move the cursor over the node until a cross appears under it, and drag
the node up to the top of the track. Now you have a gradual increase in
the level of Voice 1 Feedback. Notice that the line between the two
nodes is solid, indicating that there is automation data everywhere
between the two nodes.
7. Change the straight line between the two nodes, which is called a
Linear shape, into a Slow Curve shape, by moving the cursor over the
straight line until the vertical, double-ended arrow appears, then right-
clicking the line and choosing Slow Curve from the Envelope Editing
menu.