Reference Guide

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Automating Effects
Automation
3. Choose Add Nodes at Selection from the menu.
Two pairs of nodes appear on the envelope—one pair at the start of the selected time range, and
one pair at the end. Now you can drag the selected envelope segment up or down, and maintain the
envelope’s shape.
Automating Effects
SONAR allows you to automate plug-ins, giving you real-time control over dozens of effects
parameters.
See also:
Recording Individual Fader or Knob Movements
Creating and Editing Audio Envelopes.
Creating and Editing MIDI Envelopes
Showing or Hiding Envelopes
Deleting Envelopes
Using Control Groups
Automating Individual Effects Parameters
You can automate the parameters of some of SONAR’s effects by drawing envelopes, or recording
fader movements, or creating snapshots. You enable all automatable parameters in an effect when
you enable the Automation Write button in an effect property page.
To record fader movements, see “Recording Individual Fader or Knob Movements” on page 709.
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 pop-up menu appears.
3. If you opened the Clips pane pop-up menu, choose Envelopes > Create Track Envelope >
(name of the effect you patched). If you opened the Bus pane pop-up menu, choose Create
Bus Envelope > (name of the effect you patched).
Note: When using automatable effects, the CPU meter may fluctuate rapidly within a few
percentage points. This is normal behavior.