Any way to automate faders in CEP2?

[laptoppop]

Is there any way to record fader movements while a multitrack song is playing and play them back later in CEP2?

I downloaded the demo and the manual, but I don't see any way to do that yet.

Thanks,
-lee-

[BrettB]

mm, not on that manner, but you can draw your volume and your panning movements during the song. There are buttons to enable that in the multitrackwindow. Look in your manual to see which one, because I find it difficult to describe them

[Separated]

In CEP you do "automation" by drawing envelope lines on your waveforms in multitrack view. The actual faders don't move. When you start up your session in multitrack view i believe the envelope are "hidden". There are volume, panning, tempo, wet/dry, and fx parameter envelopes. Use your mouse pointer over thier icons in the top to see a tool-tip of what they are. There is also a button that shows a line with three "points"...that is the edit button...you have to click it to edit the envelopes that are shown. It's pretty simple.

[laptoppop]

I hope I'm missing something, because this seems like a prime limitation of an otherwise great program...

When I'm mixing down a song, and I want different volume levels for different parts of the song (lets start with the easy case, static, non-moving levels): Is it true that what I have to do is break the audio into new blocks and set the desired volume through the block properties dialog one at a time? In many other programs, you push one "snapshot" button and the current volumes for all the channels is captured. If this is true, is there any way to do that through a macro? I often have lots of different settings through the song - intro, verse1, chorus, verse2, chorus2, solo, etc.

When I want a dynamic (changing) volume over a period of time, it looks like I have to draw a volume envelope on the waveform. That's pretty clunky, but is probably OK.

Thanks for the info!
-lee-

[BrettB]

I guess the only way to go is to dram the enveloppes, but I don't consider that a disadvantage.

When you want to fiddle with the volume of mixdown, just open your mixdown wav in the session window and draw the volume.