Hello,
i’m a Cubase user, but afaik Nuendo (and no other DAW) features anything like this (i hope the following makes sense, native german speaker):
I’m sometimes doing sounddesign for film and repeatedly stumble over how much easier and faster the work would be if there was something like a global automation track - that allows me to store and recall any automation state (of all automation tracks) for a scene as a preset, and apply that preset to a region in that global/scene automation track (i imagine this very similar to the chord track). Or in other words, the ability to handle automation data like object editing.
For example, i have three recurring scenes (A,B, C, ordered A,B,C,A,C,B,A…) each with different but consistent reverb and volume automation.
I wish i could just once set up all these (three) recurring scenarios, store them on a palette and add them via drag and drop to that global track over time as required. This could look and work just like the chord track, only that the palette and track are not showing chords but my previously created and named automation presets. Then adjusting the regions position and length in that global track in the same manner as with the chord track. Of course this is mainly useful for static automation parts, but could also help as a starting point for complex individual automations.
(in my case these would often be just slight adjustments of reverb amount and some filter cutoff…but even only routing to different reverbs for different rooms this way would be nice)
The editing window for these ‘automation regions’ could look just like the audio offline processing window: a list (or pads) with presets on one side, and an overview of all it’s containing automation settings on the other side - which could also be adjusted right there, instead of jumping to each automation track separately. That selected (and maybe edited) preset can then be applied to the selected automation track region.
Thought even further - these regions could blend into each other using crossfades, morphing the automation data from one preset into the other.
Right now i have to jump back and forth between scenes or even projects, copy/paste all of the tracks automation data or draw by eye using the crosshairs.
I’m not at all a professional in this matter and may very well be overlooking something obvious, but right now i can’t think of any other way to do this easily (anyone please let me know if something similar exists) and guess this would make a considerable simplification for post production (for content with less complex action). I’d buy Nuendo in a heartbeat if this was possible.
Thanks for reading or for suggestions on how else to do this,
Chris
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