Apple Logic Express 9 - Manual (Page 1255)

Automation Preferences in Logic Express
Automation preferences consist of the following parameters:
To open Automation preferences
Do one of the following:
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Choose Logic Express > Preferences > Automation (or use the Open Automation
Preferences key command, default assignment: Option-A).
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Click the Preferences button in the Arrange toolbar, then choose Automation from the
pop-up menu.
• Move Automation with Regions pop-up menu: Determines what happens to track
automation data when you move regions.
• Never: Does not move automation when you move regions.
• Always: Always moves automation when you move regions. The automation data
area encompassed by the region boundaries is moved.
• Ask: A dialog prompts you to move the automation data—or leave it where it
is—whenever you move a region.
• “Include trails, if possible” checkbox: Includes the automation trails of regions (automation
parameter movements in the empty space that follows a region) with all copy or move
actions that are performed via the Clipboard or graphical editing.
• Snap Offset field: This parameter allows a specific number of ticks to be added to, or
subtracted from, the current snapped position of all automation data (as set in the
Arrange window Snap menu).
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