For example: If you want to add ‘Gain’ to an event or a marked section of a event, you would select the Audio pull down tab, select Process and then what process you were needing. Let’s say you wanted to add Gain. When you click on Gain, a window opens on your project window and you are given an option to choose how much (or how little) Gain you want to add. You hit the Apply button and you’ve added gain. The first time you do this it will typically work as expected (and sometimes it might work 2X in a row) but never 3X. (Note that the Process window remains open in the project after the Gain is added.) So, if you decide you needed more/less Gain to the already selected event (as is the case for me), you discover that the ‘Apply’ button doesn’t work. You have to close the Process window and open it again.
This can’t be right. Has it always been this way? Am I doing something wrong? It’s as if the Process application becomes frozen.
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You just open the process again and adjust…you dont keep adding gain, you simply adjust the setting so Im not sure how you got to that place.
Normally you clip gain to get approx -18db and then use the clip automation for any eg input gain changes to inserts etc
Perhaps add a screen shot
HTH
Thanks for the response, Aurasphere. I was making a video to show you what is happening, and as I did this, it would seem my work method was flawed.
When you initially open the Direct Offline Processin window, I would typically NOT play the clip but instead just click on the Apply (Gain) and the Gain would be added to the wave file. Next, if I needed more or less Gain, I would reset the amount and - again - hit the Apply button. But nothing would change.
So just now while filming this demo, I used the Play arrow and added Gain. (The Direct Offline Processing window remains open on the Project window.) Next, I then adjusted the gain knob and hit the Play arrow again (something I am not in the habit of doing) and, while the wave file was playing, I clicked on the Apply button and the Wave amplitude changed.
So, I was skipping a step, the Play button needs to be activated to refresh and activate the Direct Offline Processing.
This is the first time I read the expression “pull down tab” for what is usually called a menu. That is quite a creative way and made me smile.
Yes, it’s true, my DAW vocabulary is based on imagery/description more than proper GUI language terms. You would not be the first to be amused or confused by this, Johnny. Now go make some music!