MIXING WITH AUTOMATION

Take your productions to the next level by manipulating levels, mutes/solos, panning and plugin parameters like a pro

Let your DAW do the hard work for you

Back in the pre-digital days, mixes often required more than one pair of hands to make adjustments in real time as the song played. In addition to volume changes, it was often necessary to turn effects on and off, mute tracks at specific spots, move the master bus volume for a fade-out, and more. Remembering all the moves for a song wasn’t easy, and it was often necessary to run the mix multiple times to get it right.

Today’s DAW software offers mixing tools that are light years beyond that. Now you can precisely automate virtually anything that’s happening in the mixer and effects plugins, opening up a world of possibilities. Beyond just balancing the levels of various tracks, you can use automation to add dynamics to a boring part, mute and unmute tracks to create breakdowns, automate effects to produce stunning sound design, and much more.

Further to all that, the process of automating parameters doesn’t have to be exclusively done in real time by moving faders and knobs. You can create and edit automation data using breakpoint editing, which allows you to draw in and edit changes, and provides you with pinpoint control over everything that’s happening in your mix. The possibilities, without a word of exaggeration, can be as vast as your imagination allows.