Instruction Manual

714 Automation

Automating Effects

To Draw Envelopes for an Individual Effect’s

Parameters

1. Patch an automatable effect into the track or bus where you want to

use it, and close the effect’s dialog box when it appears.

2. Right-click in the Clips pane in the track (or bus) where you patched the

effect.

The Clips pane or Bus pane popup menu appears.

3. If you opened the Clips pane popup menu, choose Envelopes-Create

Track Envelope-(name of the effect you patched). If you opened the

Bus pane popup menu, choose Create Bus Envelope-(name of the

effect you patched).

The effect’s envelope dialog box appears, listing all the parameters you

can automate in the Envelope Exists list.

4. Check all the parameters you want to create envelopes for; as you

check each envelope choice, you can choose a color for the envelope

by clicking the Choose Color button that’s in the lower right corner of

the dialog box.

Note: You can change a plug-in envelope’s color whenever you want

by highlighting its name in the effect’s envelope dialog box and clicking

the Choose Color button.

5. Click OK.

All the envelopes that you checked appear in the track or bus you were

working in. You can edit them just like any other envelopes.