Avid Technology DIGI 1 - Manual (Page 55)

Chapter 5: Working with the Demo Session 51
Panning Tracks
Now try panning the same track. To pan a track, you click the Pan slider and drag it to the
left or right, to pan the corresponding direction.
To adjust panning of a track:
■ Click the Pan slider and drag it to the left or right to pan the track left or right in the mix.
Mix Automation
Automation is a way to control the movements of faders, sliders, and other controls of the
Pro Tools LE mixer, and to have the controls remember the moves you’ve made when you
play back the session. You can think of automation like a person with a lot of hands and a
perfect memory “riding” the controls during a mix.
Writing Your Own Automation
Let’s write some automation for the guitars. Click the Memory Location “Guitar Vol Auto,”
and click Play in the Transport window. In preparation for your work here, some tracks are
muted so you can easily hear how the guitars mix with the bass and drums. First, try
mixing the guitar volumes like you mixed the volume for “loop1,”and notice how each
volume fader moves back to its original position after you let it go.
Starting with the track “cleangtr,” set the Automation Mode to Auto Write, then move the
volume fader during playback to write volume automation. To hear the automation,
switch back to Auto Read mode. Then do the same thing for the track “dirty1.”
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