Non-automated faders remember their last settings when a project is reopened.
So, when these are @ -6, -8 and -10 upon closing, they will remember that last setting.
When you close the application and the cursor is at a place where the VCA has moved these faders to -12, -18 and -20, then these settings will be remembered, and the VCA automation line will push them back up to -6, -8 and -10 at the beginning of the project, or whenever they supposily are at their initial value.
However.
When the 3 faders are @ -inf, -inf and -inf before closing, they will remember -if, -inf and -inf, and will reopen like that.
By having the 3 faders at the same value (-inf), they lose their relationship to each other.
The application just remembers that they all were at -inf.
In short:
Non-automated faders remember their last settings when a project is reopened.
When this last setting is -inf, it the fader will remember that value.
I can’t say this enough … Write initial values before starting a mix. Write initial values !!!
Fredo