Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 50)

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TRACK LIST AUTOMATION CONTROLS
Toggle Automation
This displays and hides automation lanes for individual tracks. If a track has no prior
automation, a single automation lane opens displaying volume automation. If a track
has existing automation, you’ll see all automation lanes with views currently enabled
(using the + and x buttons described below). If the the track contains lane automation
the Toggle Automation button appears green; if it doesn’t, the button will be gray
regardless of whether the view is toggled on or off. This makes it easy to distinguish
if a track contains automation or not.
Keep in mind that the Toggle Automation button only hides and displays the
automation lanes, but has no affect on automation playback. In other words, lane
automation still happens even if the lanes are hidden with Toggle Automation button.
You can view as many automation lanes for a single track, or tracks, as you like.
This makes it easy to edit numerous parameter simultaneously. To open additional
automation lanes for a track, click the + sign, then click the Automation Parameter
drop-down menu to select the desired parameter for editing. To hide an automation
lane, click the X sign. When an automation lane is hidden, the automation still remains
active – it’s simply hidden from view.
To simplify remembering which track parameters contain automation data, the text
for parameters containing automation data is displayed in blue in the Automation
Parameter drop-down submenu.
 (+) Button
Adds a new automation lane to the track.
 (-) Button
Hides the automation lane.
 Arm
This is the automation Arm button to the left of the lock icon in the automation
track header, not the record Arm button above it. Clicking this allows recording
of automation data for a lane either via the onscreen control associated with the
lane’s automation parameter, or by using a hardware controller assigned to a
parameter. (See Recording Automation Using Hardware Controllers, pg 50.)