Understanding Automation
Automation Modes
Playback and Display
Editing Automation
Removing Automation
100
Pro Tools lets you automate these controls in real time during playback
What are Track Controls, Send Controls, and all Plugin Controls?
100
Use this automation mode when overwriting existing automation, or when deleting all previously automated parameters while writing new automation
What is Write?
100
To display automation and controller lanes for a track, click here
What is the Show/Hide Lanes button at the head of the track?
100
True or False: Automation breakpoints can be added, deleted, moved, copied, and pasted; they cannot be nudged.
What is False?
Breakpoints can be nudged.
100
To clear the automation across all automation graphs for a track, do this
What is press CONTROL+DELETE with a selection across the entire track on any automation playlist?
200
Recording automation to one member of a Mix group will have this result for all other members of the group
What is record the same automation?
200
This automation mode is best used when updating and writing automation in select areas, returning to their previous values when released.
What is Touch?
200
Click here in the Edit window to display an automation playlist in the main track view
What is the Track View Selector?
200
To add or move a breakpoint, use this tool
What is the Grabber tool?
200
Refer to the image below. This will happen if the Delete key is pressed with the selection shown in the "Before" image (choose A, B, C, or D)
What is C? (The automation breakpoints will be removed within the selection)
300
True or False: You cannot store multiple takes of automation for a single control in Audio, Instrument, and MIDI tracks.
What is False?
True for Audio, not true for Instrument and MIDI tracks
300
This automation mode is best when automating parameters over long areas, with controls remaining put when you release them
What is Latch?
300
Audio tracks use a Volume automation playlist, while MIDI tracks use this
What is Velocity view?
300
Use these keys to nudge breakpoints earlier or later in the track
What are the Plus [+] and Minus [-] keys on the numeric keypad?
300
Use this modifier with Grabber tool to delete individual breakpoints on the displayed automation graph
What is Option?
400
On MIDI and Instrument tracks, all MIDI-based continuous controller automation data (except for MID Mute) is stored here
What is within the associated MIDI clip?
400
Suspending and disabling automation is done using this window, and can be accessed using this menu
What is the Automation window, accessed by going to Window > Automation?
400
Hold this modifier key before choosing a track view or showing automation lanes to make the display change across all tracks in the session
What is Option?
400
Hold this modifier key to affect automation data on only one member of an active group
What is Control?
400
To delete multiple breakpoints, select a range of breakpoints with the Selector tool and either press Delete or do this
What is choose Edit > Clear?
500
This type of automation data offers the highest resolution
What is audio automation?
500
These types of automation modes let you write automation only to parameters that are manually changed
What are Touch and Latch mode?
500
True or False: Deleting and Cutting a selection of automation data will have the same effect.
What is False?
Cut command will ad breakpoints at the start and end of the selection; the Delete key will not.
600
True or False: When copying and pasting automation data, the result will be pasted to the same automation type, even if that automation graph is not currently displayed.
What is True?
700
True or False: A track's pan position can be changed by dragging breakpoints on the track's Pan automation graph, or by drawing on the automation graph with the Pencil tool.
What is True?
800
To copy automation from one automation playlist to another (for example, to copy volume automation to a send), use this command
What is Paste Special > To Current Automation Type (in the Edit menu)?
900
True or False: Automation data can be interchanged between Audio and MIDI tracks.
What is False?