

Manually editing automation envelopes allows you to methodically add, edit, or delete automation directly in the arrangement view. There are two basic ways of adding and working with automation, “manually” editing automation envelopes with the mouse, and “recording” automation envelopes during playback. in a “track” below the corresponding audio track), click the “trim” button in the TCP, then select “Visible” for “Volume”.

To view automation in Reaper, as its own lane (i.e. The lower track shows the resulting audio file notice how the audio shape now follows the gain automation envelope shape.Īs with almost anything you want to do, there are multiple ways of viewing and working with automation in Reaper. Laid on top of the track is a gain automation envelope (the green line). The upper track is an original audio file of rain. For every moment in time, the audio file is multiplied by the gain amount represented in the automation envelope, resulting in a new volume for the audio at that moment in time. Like fades, automation “envelopes” can be shown visually in relation to an audio section. This allows the engineer the opportunity to build up complex works. By automating fader gain, we can create mixes where individual sound sources change in volume, with respect to time, in the same way every time we playback the work. One of the most used parameters for automation, and the one we will demo first, is track fader gain. Automation allows the sound engineer the ability to automate, with respect to time, various parameters within the DAW.
