ido1957
9K Gold Member
So long story short, you cannot copy gain automation in Platinum (Sonar/Cakewalk) without taking the actual clips with it. $%#$% Pissed me off because I had hoped to copy the automation and just do slight tweaks on a doubling track.
Anyway - why automate gain? Mainly so I could reduce the compression on a track with huge volume differences. It wasn't perfect but I knew I would still use a compressor to add some final light leveling. Plus my pre already adds all the color I want. Mic technique ya ya ya I know....
I guess I have used a limiter but I didn't want to slam it.
I'll probably not use gain compression in the future - the inability to copy it is annoying. For example, if I want to comp the track after the fact I'm screwed as I can't copy the automation.
To get around this (which I did) I just did volume automation, exported the track to a new one, then started from there.
Automation is a painful process, took me a couple of hours to do one track. And I had 4 to do...so you can see my point.
And when will they add "Platinum" to the Cakewalk forum title???? lol
Anyway - why automate gain? Mainly so I could reduce the compression on a track with huge volume differences. It wasn't perfect but I knew I would still use a compressor to add some final light leveling. Plus my pre already adds all the color I want. Mic technique ya ya ya I know....
I guess I have used a limiter but I didn't want to slam it.
I'll probably not use gain compression in the future - the inability to copy it is annoying. For example, if I want to comp the track after the fact I'm screwed as I can't copy the automation.
To get around this (which I did) I just did volume automation, exported the track to a new one, then started from there.
Automation is a painful process, took me a couple of hours to do one track. And I had 4 to do...so you can see my point.
And when will they add "Platinum" to the Cakewalk forum title???? lol