Instruction Manual

708 Automation
Automation Methods
See also:
Recording Individual Fader or Knob Movements
Creating and Editing Audio Envelopes
Creating and Editing MIDI Envelopes
Drawing Envelopes on Clips
Showing or Hiding Envelopes
Copying and Pasting Envelopes
Snapshots
Envelope Mode and Offset Mode
There are two modes which control how your volume faders, pan faders,
bus send faders, and bus send pan faders behave during playback. The
two modes are Envelope mode and Offset mode.
Envelope mode—In envelope mode, volume and pan faders follow the
project’s automation and do not respond to changes you make in real-time.
Offset mode—In Offset mode, you “offset” the current automation in a
track using a parameter’s controls. For example, if a pan envelope is set to
hard left (100% left) and you adjust the pan in offset mode to 100% right,
then the pan parameter is now set to hard right. Setting the pan in offset
mode to 50% right would set the pan to the center.
Note: Any position that you set a fader to in Offset mode remains in effect
when you switch back to Envelope mode. For example, if you set a volume
fader to -INF while in Offset mode, switch to Envelope mode and drag the
fader to its maximum level, you will not hear anything.
To Turn On Offset Mode
There are several ways to turn on Offset mode in SONAR:
• In the Track view toolbar, click the drop-down arrow that’s next to
Envelope Tool button. Choose Offset from the menu to enable/
disable Offset mode.
• In the Automation toolbar, click the Offset button.
• Press the o key.
In Offset mode, all controls that can be offset appear with a plus sign. For
example Vol+.