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Recording real-time automation moves - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
Recording real-time automation moves
Automation in Pro Tools can be approached in one of two ways, real-time recording of mixing moves or graphically via Edit tools. For real-time automation each track in Pro Tools has an automation mode selector that can be accessed via the Edit or Mix window. The default state of a track's automation mode is Read. Read mode will playback any previously written automation for that track. If no automation is present, a track is considered open and will retain its static state when manually adjusted. So I'm going to clear out the automation on this lead vocal track so we can start from scratch. So in the Edit window I'm just going to select this track and choose Edit > Clear Special > All Automation, and that's going to wipe out any automation that's living on that track. So we have got a clean slate to work from. Now one thing that you are going to want to get familiar with when you're working with automation is the Automation window. So let me close this Memory Locations window and…
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