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  With the two modes, "trim" and "relative" you simply get to decide whether you want the additional automation to be incorporated into your first. With the Automation Trim, you can boost or reduce the level of your Automation across the whole track! You don't have to select anything. You.  

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  With the two modes, "trim" and "relative" you simply get to decide whether you want the additional automation to be incorporated into your first. With the Automation Trim, you can boost or reduce the level of your Automation across the whole track! You don't have to select anything. You.    

 

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Now it is not that Logic Pro did not previously give us ways to deal with this. You could command-click on the yellow line that used to appear in the track header and drag up or down accordingly.

And of course, you could always add a Gain plug-in to raise or lower the level without disrupting the existing automation. But nothing as elegant as what we now have. Notice in Pic 2 that we now have two new choices for automation, named Trim and Relative.

Personally, I cannot see myself choosing the Trim option and frankly I wish that Relative could be named Trim. Here's why. In Pic 3, the red line shows the new automation that is being written while Pic 4 shows the end result after I press stop. Clearly looking at Pic 4 and listening to Audio Example 2 tells us that the original volume automation has been replaced by the new volume automation. Coming as I do from the world of analog consoles, this is not what I personally think of as trimming.

Listen to Audio Example 3 and you can hear that the newly added Relative automation is in fact trimming the original volume automation as it is now softer but has the same contours. In Pic 7, please notice that if I click the disclosure triangle to view a second lane, we can now see both passes discretely and available for editing. So a big salute from me to the Logic Pro developers for giving us this simple and elegant way to perform this frequently necessary task in Logic Pro X More articles by this author.

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Once you have added detailed volume automation to a vocal track it can be difficult to alter the level of phrases or sections of the vocal that are a little quiet or loud. Fortunately there are couple of ways to solve this problem in Logic.

The first way is to set your click-tool to the Pointer and your Command-click tool to the Marquee. Now hold Command and draw a marquee selection across the automation you want to turn up, and then release the Command key and use the pointer tool to drag up the selected automation.

Your previous lane of volume automation disappears and is replaced with a new empty relative volume lane. To see your previous volume automation lane at the same time as the new relative one, simply click the disclosure arrow next to Read in the Track Header. Use the Pencil tool to draw into the relative volume lane broad-brush-stroke volume adjustments to gently increase the volume of the phrase or section.

The great thing about relative volume is that all of your complex rides remain untouched in the lower absolute volume lane. To record relative volume automation click on the Touch Automation drop-down and choose Touch, and then open it again and choose Relative. Now if you hit Play in Logic and move the channel fader or your physical controller assigned to Automation Quick Access, it will record automation in the relative lane.

Screen 3. If working with relative and absolute levels sounds a little too involved for you then another way to achieve the same thing is to use a VCA. This has the advantage of having a dedicated fader. In the mixer, Ctrl-click on the VCA strip and choose the Create Track option to create a track lane for this on the arrange page. You can now draw volume automation for the VCA group and, as this is assigned the vocal track, it will trim existing automation in the same way as the relative volume lane.

This VCA style of automation can become even more useful when using it to automate groups of backing vocal tracks together, provided they are all assigned to the same VCA group.

Logic is a deep application and when it comes to automation features there is way more to discover than we have space to cover here. However, hopefully these examples have clarified how and where you might use the main automation features in your production work. Buy PDF version. Previous article Next article. New forum posts Re: Korg s FS. Charts - you are fake news! Login You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address.

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