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Automation Methods

Automation

Movements

Recording automation for knobs and faders works in the Track view, the

Console view, and Synth Rack. You can record automation during both

playback and recording operations.

To Record Individual Fader or Knob Movements

1. Do one of the following:

• To write-enable an individual track or bus control, right-click the

fader or control you want to automate and choose Automation

Write Enable from the popup menu.

• To write-enable individual plug-in parameters, right-click the name

of the plug-in in the FX bin, and choose Write Enable Parameter

from the popup menu. This opens a dialog that allows you to

choose which parameters to write-enable.

• To write-enable individual synth parameters, right-click the synth’s

Automation Write button in the Synth Rack, and choose Write

Enable Parameter from the popup menu. This opens a dialog that

allows you to choose which parameters to write-enable.

• To write-enable all parameters in an audio track, bus, synth, or

effect, enable the Automation Write button on the track, bus,

Synth Rack strip, or plug-in property page you are recording

automation for. Enabling the Automation Write button on a track or

bus also write-enables all parameters of any effects on the track or

bus.

2. Start playback or recording.

3. Move the armed parameter control(s).

4. Stop playback or recording.

After you record the automation data, SONAR draws a graph of it (an

envelope) in the Clips pane, which you can edit with the mouse by adding

and dragging nodes. Once you record automation data in a track, the

widget that you automated displays an indicator to show that automation

has been applied. You can also group controls, so that automating one

control automates all the controls in the group.