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Cutting Pro Tools Automation

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Summary: Cutting automation in Pro Tools allows the user to cut the exact automation off of one track and either delete it or paste it to another with a simple keystroke. Cut automation information easily with Pro Tools mixing tips from a recording expert in this free instructional video.

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By R.T. Ouk
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R.T. Ouk has been a music producer and audio engineer for more than 10 years. He owns The Armory Recording Studios and heads New Day Productions, which has worked on soundtracks and...read more

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"Now right now I want to cut the automation. I have a bunch of automation on here, what I want to do is I want to cut certain things out of it. Like right now I put a bunch of little spaces in between it, between each of the tracks. Maybe I want to actually take out those spaces. Maybe those spaces weren't a good idea. So what I can do is actually go in and go to my slip, right, and then whatever I actually delete, it's actually going to go back to its original place. So when I delete this, it's actually going to connect this dot to whatever dot's over here. So maybe I'll go right here and connect these two, when I delete it, it's going to connect these dots right up to each other. So I'm going to do that for each of these parts just by highlighting the part that I want and hitting the delete the key. I can do this for each of my parts, and it's automatically going to affect all of them because they're all grouped together, and I grouped them together by highlighting them all at the same time and grouping them on my left edit groups menu. Now that I've taken this I can actually just keep on deleting the ones that kind of causing my volume automation to get a little crazy. Now that my volume automation's pretty much closer to where it was before, I could always just take the whole thing and just delete everything."

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