If you’ve read my other post on the subject of automation, you’ll know that I’m in the process of re-acquainting myself with using Cubase 5 after about five years’ break due to a move.
Two scenarios, then, that don’t seem to make sense to me. In both cases I feel I’m just missing something simple, but if so, could someone please enlighten me as to what it is?!
Scenario 1: A track is automated to a volume of, say, -1dB at bar 1. The next automation event, let’s say, is a change to -2dB at bar 10. If I play the song with the track in question selected, with both Read & Write activated, and move the fader inbetween bars 1 and 10, although the new events will show on the linear display, as soon as I release the fader, the value will snap back to -1dB again.
Scenario 2: Again, with Read and Write both activated and the relevant track selected, the cursor is stationary, i.e. the song is not being played. Whilst the cursor remains stationary, I move the fader ( with the intention of creating a new automation event ), or move the panner to the left or right, say. In neither case is a new event created unless I manually place a dot on the linear display at the relevant point, select that dot, and adjust the relevant information accordingly.
I can’t be 100% sure - my memory is far from infallible! - but I really feel like neither of these things used to be the case when I was doing this with the same installation of Cubase on the same computer in my previous studio.
Can anyone lighten my darkness?
Hi,
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It depends on the settings in the Automatic Panel. What you describes, it sounds like the default Touch settings.
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There are several modes of Automation wiring in the Automation panel. For example “In Cycle”, “To End”, etc. But all if them are working during the playback only.