25-Automix; The Benefits Of Automix; How Automix Works - Roland VS-2400CD Owner's Manual

25—Automix
This chapter describes how to perform automated mixing on the VS-2400CD using its
Automix feature. Automix allows you to create and perfect automated mixes.
The Benefits of Automix
Automated Mixdown
Mixing is a challenging art, a delicate balance of attention to detail and artistic vision.
It's both a creative and clerical activity in which your project is turned into a final work
that can be heard by other people. It's the time when everything you've been meaning
to tend to, and every enhancement you've been planning, has to be addressed. As such,
there's a lot to get right. Mixing is really the project's final, ultimate performance.
Automix allows you to build up your mix, element by element, by recording each
adjustment and perfectly playing it back. This lets you take your time, enjoying the
process of crafting your project's final sound. Since Automix remembers what you do,
you can work on a mix over a period of time—at the start of each mixing session, your
project mix is exactly as you left it and ready to be worked on some more.
When you think you may be done with a mix, and are listening to it on different
systems and playing it for friends and associates, Automix removes the worry that if
you find something wrong in the mix you'll have to start all over. With Automix, you
can fix any individual problems while preserving the rest of the mix.
Automated Recording
While most people use Automix during mixdown, you can also use it during recording,
since you can automate input channel parameters. If you're recording something
repeatable that requires changes during the course of the project—perhaps you're
recording synchronized sequencer tracks—you can automate those moves and play
them back as you're recording your tracks.

How Automix Works

How is Automix Recorded?
Automix captures and remembers changes made to a parameter's value over the
course of a project, and remembers where each change occurs. What Automix records
is Automix data, not audio data, and it's saved with the project. Automix records on its
own tracks in its own area of the VS-2400CD's memory. It doesn't use any of your
project's tracks. This means two important things:
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Because Automix data and audio data are separate, when you move audio to a new
location, you'll have to also remember to move the corresponding Automix data.
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Using Automix doesn't reduce the number of available tracks in a project.
Automix data is independent of audio data—you can alter either one without
affecting the other.
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