Automating in Cubase: Music Recording

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody my name is Matt and I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Now I'm going to be talking to you a little more about automation if you got a track then you would notice in the bottom left there is a plus sign. If you click that it is going to bring down another dialog and default is volume. If you keep going down it will bring up things like pan and mute and I'm just going to adjust the automation for the volume right now. If you go up to your line tool I'm going to go ahead and click sign and you can draw in the volume, you can draw a little sign wave and when you listen back to it you would notice that the drums went in and out. It is not a really smooth sign there so if you want to go to file, go to preferences and click on editing you would see a little slider bar to the right it says automation reduction level. Take that down to minimum and click okay and you would notice when you click to make the sign wave there it would adjust it and be a little more detailed. In the last lesson we talked about the mixer if you want to go ahead and go up to devices and click mixer to bring that back up there is another way you can do automation. This is my drum track right here so I'm going to go ahead and click the litter R beside it to turn on ready automation and if you click a W that is write automation and I'm going to go ahead and click play. I'm going to adjust the volume as the song plays and go ahead and click stop and I'm going to unclick right automation when I go to play it back you would notice the slider going up and down. You can also automate the pan here using the exact same method and the automation can be very useful and you can automate different things in cubase."