Automating Track, Bus, Submix, and Master Bus Parameters with Envelope Points

Each track, bus, and submix in your Timeline, as well as your project’s Master bus, has a set of envelopes for volume, pan, and other parameters. Creating and adjusting envelope points is also often described as automating an envelope or using automation.

When you add an effect to a track, a bus, a submix, or the Master bus, it automatically gets envelopes for each parameter that can be automated and that is associated with the effect. To automate the envelope line, you can add points to the envelope line and move the points up and down to change the parameters of the track, bus, submix, or Master bus over time.

To automate a track’s parameters:

1Select the track that contains the effect parameters that you want to automate.

2In the Effects tab, click the disclosure triangle next to the effect you want to automate and verify that the Auto checkbox for each parameter that you want to automate is selected.

3In the Timeline, click the track’s disclosure triangle to display the track’s envelopes.

The envelope parameters for the effects that are applied to the track appear as straight lines.

4To add an envelope point anywhere on the line, double-click the envelope line.

As you double-click the envelope, envelope points appear; a number, indicating the envelope point’s level, also appears. You can drag the envelope points up and down to adjust their levels. You can also drag the envelope points left and right to adjust their positions.

Double-click the envelope line to create a movable envelope. point.

5To make finer adjustments to an envelope, zoom in to the track using the Zoom slider, then continue to add and move the envelope points.

6When you’re done automating the envelope, play the track to hear the effects of the automation you applied.

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