Instruction Manual

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The Automation Toolbar
Automation
In addition, SONAR allows you to copy and paste envelopes between
tracks. The only controls that you can’t automate are the Arm, Solo, Pre/
Post, Interleave (Mono/Stereo selector), Bus Enable, and Phase buttons;
and the Trim fader.
For step-by-step instructions, see:
The Automation Toolbar
Automation Methods
Recording Individual Fader or Knob Movements
Creating and Editing Audio Envelopes
Creating and Editing MIDI Envelopes
Drawing Envelopes on Clips
Showing or Hiding Envelopes
Deleting Envelopes
Copying and Pasting Envelopes
Snapshots
The Automation Toolbar
Display the Automation toolbar by using the Views-Toolbars
command to open the Toolbars dialog box, and making sure that the
Automation checkbox is checked. If you slide the cursor over each button or
field in the toolbar, tooltips pop up to tell you each function. The Automation
toolbar gives you quick access to some powerful automation controls:
• Enable/Disable Automation Playback—Click this button to either
Groups of faders
or other controls
Whatever the faders or
other controls in the
group control
Record fader movements
Individual clips Gain and pan for audio
clips, velocity for MIDI
clips
Draw envelopes in the
Clips pane
What you
can
automate...
Parameters you
can automate...
How you can
automate them...