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Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Drawing and editing automation

As usual, recording something in real time can give a more human feel, which isn’t any different for automation. However, some parameters require very precise values and movements to be mimicked; therefore, drawing the automation manually with the mouse might be a better option in this case.

Of course, you can also just record the automation and then edit it later.

Let’s find out how to do all these things!

As we already briefly discussed, there are two locations where automation can live:

  • The clip envelope
  • The track-based automation envelope

Drawing and editing automation works the same in both locations/views (the Session and Arrangement Views); besides some of the features that relate to the timeline, they only apply in the Arrangement View, such as the Lock Envelope feature, which relates to the timeline.

Drawing automation

We already looked at how to manually create breakpoints at the beginning of this...

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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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