Quick Automation Guide - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

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Quick Automation Guide

The following table summarizes Console and Track view automation:
What you can
automate...
Individual tracks
Buses
Individual effects
Soft Synth controls
Groups of faders or
other controls
Individual clips
In addition, SONAR allows you to copy and paste envelopes between tracks. The only controls that you
can't automate are the Arm, Solo, Pre/Post, Interleave (Mono/Stereo selector), Bus Enable, and Phase
buttons; and the Trim fader.
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Parameters you can
automate...
Gain, pan, mute, bus send
gain, bus send balance, MIDI
controllers, MIDI chorus and
reverb, pitch wheel, channel
aftertouch, RPN and NRPN
Input gain and pan, output gain
and pan
Varies with the effect
Varies with the synth
Whatever the faders or other
controls in the group control
Gain and pan for audio clips,
velocity for MIDI clips
How you can automate
them...
Draw envelopes in the Clips pane,
record the fader movements, or
take a snapshot
Draw envelopes in the Clips pane,
record the fader movements, or
take a snapshot
Draw envelopes in the Clips pane,
record the fader movements, or
take a snapshot
See "Automating a Soft Synth's
Controls" on page 356
Record fader movements
Draw envelopes in the Clips pane