Automating An Individual Effect's Settings - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

3. Play the project to hear what it sounds like. You can continue to adjust the effect while the project
plays; there is a slight delay before your adjustments are audible.
Close the dialog box. You can add effects to buses with the same method (right-click the FX field in a
bus, and choose an effect from the popup menu).
You can delete an effect from an FX field by right-clicking the effect's name and choosing Delete from
the popup menu. Instead of moving the controls manually, let's automate them by drawing an envelope
in the Clips pane.

Automating an Individual Effect's Settings

Let's draw an envelope to automate one of the flanger's controls:
1. In the Clips pane, right-click in the first guitar track (the track you added the FxFlange effect to)
and choose Envelopes-Create Track Envelope-FxFlange 1 from the popup menu.
The FxFlange1 dialog box appears.
2. Let's create only one envelope, even though we could create many: in the Envelope Exists field,
check the Voice 1 Feedback option to create an envelope that controls the level of feedback on voice
1 of the FxFlange effect.
3. Click OK (you could choose a color for the envelope before you click OK by clicking the Choose
Color button).
A solid line with 2 nodes (round dots) appears on top of the guitar clip, one node at the beginning
and one at the end of the last clip in the project. The dotted line after the project ends means there
is no automation data in that area of a track—only nodes and solid lines represent actual values.
4. Let's add a node at measure 17 of the guitar track: move the cursor over the line at measure 17
until a vertical, double-ended arrow appears under it, and right-click the line.
The Envelope Editing menu appears.
5. Choose Add Node from the menu.
A new node appears on the envelope at measure 17.
6. Move the cursor over the node until a cross appears under it, and drag the node up to the top of the
track. Now you have a gradual increase in the level of Voice 1 Feedback. Notice that the line
between the two nodes is solid, indicating that there is automation data everywhere between the
two nodes.
7. Change the straight line between the two nodes, which is called a Linear shape, into a Slow
Curve shape, by moving the cursor over the straight line until the vertical, double-ended arrow
appears, then right-clicking the line and choosing Slow Curve from the Envelope Editing menu.
Node
Now you have a gradual, but not linear increase in the Voice 1 Feedback level of your flange effect. You
can drag linear and curve shapes vertically, but not horizontally. To change their horizontal positions,
drag the node at either end of a shape. You can drag a node in any direction.
Slow curve
Node
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