My envelopes are breeding like rabbits...

[Armistice]

I sort of have two questions...

Firstly, what's the best of the five types of envelopes if I just want to draw in volume levels or pan positions manually. Sub question - having done this, are they always going to change if I then touch the master volume? So I've got the moves scoped and drawn in and then I decide the whole thing should be 2dB louder...

Everything I try seems to alter as soon as I touch something else.


Secondly, once I have put an envelope in for anything, such as the above, now, whenever I touch anything else (say adding an EQ or playing with a 'verb plugin) a new envelope spawns and starts tracking moves. Really, I'm just trying to EQ the whole track, not automate it.

What am I doing wrong here?

Cheers

[Spazhands]

When you say it spawns a new envelope and tracks the movements, have you got the envelope armed or something??

[mjbphotos]

yeah, 'unarm' the envelope you have done after you are done drawing it. Once you unarm the volume envelope, you can boost the entire volume of the track with the slider for that track.

I never paid attention to the 'type' of envelope! What are the choices? I used to 'write' them manually, then found it was much easier to draw them.

[Armistice]

Ah! Yeah, probably... it seems to do lots of things by default that I find a bit counter-intuitive... but one by one I'm learning the tricks...

Thanks for the tips guys....

[jiff 41]

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but one by one I'm learning the tricks...

and there are a lot to learn!
but WELL worth it, i think Reaper is billiant, you can do anything, your way!!

[VomitHatSteve]

There's an option under the "envelopes" preferences menu that used to give me no end of trouble:
"when adding volume/pan envelopes, apply trim to envelope and reset trim"

If you have this set to "always" (or if you have it set to "in read/write" and the envelope is armed to record presumably), when you change the volume or pan sliders of a track and then open the envelope view for that track, the sliders will reset and the change will be applied to the envelope instead.

Set that to "never" to decrease the number of "helpful" ways that reaper changes your tracks without telling you.

[Armistice]

There's an option under the "envelopes" preferences menu that used to give me no end of trouble:
"when adding volume/pan envelopes, apply trim to envelope and reset trim"

If you have this set to "always" (or if you have it set to "in read/write" and the envelope is armed to record presumably), when you change the volume or pan sliders of a track and then open the envelope view for that track, the sliders will reset and the change will be applied to the envelope instead.

Set that to "never" to decrease the number of "helpful" ways that reaper changes your tracks without telling you.

That sounds like what was happening.... I'd be listening... nudge the volume around a bit and have a million new points on my envelope... although with whatever it is I'm doing now, I seem to have it under control. Thanks!