today I'm looking at one of the questions that pops up quite often here
it's how to do automation in waveform I'm Zane from audiotechtv.com and for
this waveform 11 tutorial I'm using waveform Pro but what I'm showing you
will also work with waveform free now let's jump in some of the basic things
that you can automate are the volume and the pan so that's what I'm going to look
at right now and then I'll look at automating plugins after so beside each
track right here you're going to notice the a and if you click on that and you
go to automate parameters for this track you'll see everything that you can
automate on this track right now so what I suggest doing is clicking on this plus
button here then click on add an empty automation track and we have a new
automation track and you can keep adding these over and over if you have multiple
things that you want to automate on the one track but for this I'm just going to
automate the volume and to do that we can just click on the a and drag it
right here to the volume it's going to ask if we want to do volume or pan click
on volume and now we have this line here and you'll notice if I click and drag
the line it moves the fader up and down
another way that you could assign this is by clicking on the a on the automated
track and then you could go to the automatable parameters for this track
and click on volume whichever works best for you so now we can automate this and
there's a couple of ways you can do this can easily just use your mouse to draw
in some automation points so we'll do that you can double click anywhere on
this line here and create a node and then double click over here to create
another one and we can pull this one down and that's an automation so watch
as we do a playback
all right so that's a simple automation right there we're just turning the
volume down if you want to get rid of all your nodes you can just click on the
line anywhere then you can go down here to delete points from curve and delete
all the points and we're back to none so another way that we can do the
automation is by recording it and we can just click this button here that's the
record automation button press play for playback and then control it and now
you'll notice we have the automation that we just created by moving the fader
up and down and one thing you'll want to make sure is that you have this green
button enabled and I think it's enabled by default so you won't even have to
worry about it unless you disabled it and this just plays the automation back
if you have it disabled it's going to ignore all the automation information
that you have in there so just make sure that's enabled so now another way that
we can do this is by using a MIDI keyboard now if you have a MIDI
controller or a MIDI keyboard like this one and it has a bunch of knobs on it
some other controls on it other than the keys you might want to set it up so it
can control various things in plugins and within waveform itself now let's
look at how to do that to set up your MIDI controller for automation click on
the MIDI learn button down here and then click on the parameter that you want to
control with your MIDI keyboard so I want to control the volume and now turn
the knob on your MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard that you want to use and it's
just set that assignment so now let me close this
turn off MIDI learn and you'll notice when I turn the knob
on my MIDI keyboard it controls that fader and now we can record that so
let's record that and of course you can assign it to whatever controls you want
most functions are automatable and a lot of plugins allow you to automate various
features in there so let's load a plug-in now just to look at that alright
so I have an EQ plug-in loaded up and I'm just going to add another empty
automation track drag the a onto the plug-in that you want to automate and
now it's going to show you all of the features that you can automate in this
plug-in and for this I'm just going to go to band 3 gain so I'm going to click
on band 3 here so it's active and you'll notice now when I move the line down
here it's controlling the gain of band 3 so let's record the automation of that I
have the automation record button enabled now just hit play and you can
see our automation down here now this can be great for virtual instruments
that might have knobs that you want to adjust during a song or on effects like
filters and eq's but of course the possibilities are endless if you want to
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