Different Ways to Automate (Basic Automation Tutorial)

Different Ways to Automate – This week’s video is all about automation within DAWs. Automation is a process where we can get the DAW to carry out jobs for us, for example turning up a fader at a certain point in the track or editing the amount of effect applied or the panning. We can use automation to create consistency, movement and interest in our mixes. It is also great at saving us time and making our lives a lot easier. There are 4 main automation modes (4 different ways we can automate).

The video goes through what each mode is, how to use each mode and examples of each. It also mentions the difference between track and region automation. This video is aimed at beginner to intermediate home producers, engineers and musicians.


Topics and Timings:

1. Intro (0:00 – 1:31)

2. Read Mode (1:31 – 2:59)

3. Touch Mode (2:59 – 4:07)

4. Latch Mode (4:07 – 4:43)

5. Write Mode (4:43 – 5:36)

6. Track and Region Automation (5:36 – 7:21)

7. Final Thoughts (7:21 – 8:17)


The background and example music was written and produced by George Agombar.

Thank you so much for watching this video, I hope you found it useful! Please let me know what you thought in the comments and if there are any videos you would like to see.


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