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Automate your mix in real time

Automate your mix in real time - Logic Pro Tutorial

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Automate your mix in real time

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll explore how to write your automation in real time, making your mix experience a more creative performance. Notice our lead vocal track and all the tracks are currently in automation view mode. Since that button is enabled at the top of the main window. Also notice in the track header, the track automation type is set to read. In read mode, automation follows whatever automation nodes and curves are already drawn in that track. In other words you can't write real-time automation in read mode. The track will just be reading what's already there, but we want to do real-time automation. So let's go into this menu and activate one of the three other automation modes. We'll start with touch. Touch mode is in some senses, the safest mode. It only writes when you're actively moving a parameter, such as the volume fader. And when you let go of that parameter, it'll snap back to reading what was already there. So if I make one single node here in the track…

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