M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio User Manual
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Chapter 42: Automation
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In addition, if cut or copied data is pasted else-
where in a track, breakpoints are created at the
end points of the pasted data to preserve its
“neighboring” (incoming and outgoing) auto-
mation value and slope, as shown in Figure 13.
Editing and Track Views
Audio, MIDI, and Instrument tracks each have a
Track View that acts as the Master View for pur-
poses of editing. When the Master View is dis-
played, any edits performed on the track apply
to all data in the track.
The Master Views are:
• Audio tracks: Blocks and Waveform
• MIDI and Instrument tracks: Blocks, Re-
gions, and Notes
For example, when an audio track is set to
Waveform or Blocks, cutting, copying and past-
ing affects the audio data and all types of auto-
mation data on that track. If the track is set to
show Pan automation, only the Pan data is af-
fected.
When a selection includes multiple tracks, if any
of those tracks is in its Master View, all data on
all selected tracks is affected.
To edit all automation types on an Auxiliary Input
or Master Fader track, do one of the following:
Make an Edit selection that includes at least
one audio or MIDI track that is displayed in its
main format.
– or –
Press Control while cutting or copying the au-
tomation data.
Tips for Cutting, Copying and Pasting
On audio tracks, when you are in Waveform
View and cut or copy a section of the waveform,
any automation data associated with the wave-
form is also cut or copied.
On audio tracks, when you are in Waveform
View and cut audio data from a track also con-
taining automation data, breakpoints are auto-
matically created at the boundaries of the
remaining automation data.
On audio tracks, pasting waveform data also
pastes any associated automation data.
On Auxiliary Input, Master Fader, or Instru-
ment tracks, only the displayed automation
data is cut or copied. To cut or copy all automa-
tion data on these types of tracks, press Control
while cutting or copying.
In tracks where an automation playlist con-
tains no data (when there is only a single break-
point at the very beginning of the track), if you
cut data, no new breakpoints are created.
In cases where regions overlap (such as when
moving regions in Slip mode) and an overlap-
ping region is removed, any overlapped automa-
tion breakpoints are lost.
Figure 13. After pasting the automation data in
another location
For additional flexibility, you can use play-
lists or the Duplicate Track command to
work nondestructively on a copy of the edit
data.