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Old 01-02-2018, 08:03 PM
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I'm trying to figure out how to automate effects while moving multiple knobs at once. I want to automate the EQ so the HPF increases while a boost in the low mids moves up in frequency simultaneously. However, I can only adjust one knob at a time with the mouse. Is this possible?
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One at a time without a console. You can't "rubber-band" parameters and have them maintain their relative offset, if that's what you're thinking.
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I'm trying to figure out how to automate effects while moving multiple knobs at once. I want to automate the EQ so the HPF increases while a boost in the low mids moves up in frequency simultaneously. However, I can only adjust one knob at a time with the mouse. Is this possible?
Try using multiple automation lanes if you truly want to automate things. But you have to do each lane separately; tricky but it can be done.
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Try using multiple automation lanes if you truly want to automate things. But you have to do each lane separately; tricky but it can be done.
So you can record each knob's movement separately, and then combine them all? Ill have to search for "automation lanes" in the manual. Thanks.
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One at a time without a console. You can't "rubber-band" parameters and have them maintain their relative offset, if that's what you're thinking.
If That's what I'm thinking then I'm wording,it,different.. I have no,idea what rubber banding parameters means, as well as their relative offset.
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If That's what I'm thinking then I'm wording,it,different.. I have no,idea what rubber banding parameters means, as well as their relative offset.
Like Jack said, you can automate virtually every plugin parameter separately. Your initial post led me to believe that you wanted to write moving automation for multiple parameters simultaneously, and that can't be done without some form of console.
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So you can record each knob's movement separately, and then combine them all? Ill have to search for "automation lanes" in the manual. Thanks.
You don't 'combine' anything. Each automation parameter runs only whatever control you have it assigned to; that means you can tweak each one separately to get what you want.
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So you can record each knob's movement separately, and then combine them all? Ill have to search for "automation lanes" in the manual. Thanks.


If you like writing automation organically, be sure to be in touch mode and you can automate the first parameter on one pass and the second parameter on the next pass.

Or you can pencil edit the moves in the automation lanes.


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