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🎛️ Automation

Move parameters over time so your mix breathes and evolves.

Automation Lane

A volume automation curve playing back over time.

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What is Automation?

lets you change any parameter — volume, pan, , — over time. Your remembers the moves and plays them back.

  • Volume : ride a vocal up in the chorus, down in the verse.
  • : open a filter on a synth as the approaches for tension.
  • Pan : sweep a sound from left to right for movement.
  • send : dial up reverb on the last word of a line for a tail throw.
  • Anything you can turn on a knob, you can automate.
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