Rogue Automation!

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I'm using FL Studio, but I hope the principle will be the same, whatever you're using.

Last week, I built several automation clips for controlling the reverb, levels of sub-groups in the drum mix and for the overall drum track level itself.

Now I have come to remove the automation, for the purposes of bouncing down the drums to a single track, I can't seem to remove the effects of the automation!

I've tried everything I know of - deleting the pattern clips - even deleting the channels on which they exist... There is now (or should be) no automation left in the project... Nevertheless, that main track slider doesn't wanna let go. It is bobbing up and down, like it's possessed by the spirit of dead automation, throughout the song!

Any ideas what's causing this?

Dr. V
 
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I don't know enough about FLS to answer your question, but why would you want to remove the automation before bouncing down the track? Don't you want it to sound like how you tweaked it?
 
dobro said:
I don't know enough about FLS to answer your question, but why would you want to remove the automation before bouncing down the track? Don't you want it to sound like how you tweaked it?
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Good question... Because keeping sound seperate to automation allows me to re-use the same tracks in different versions of the song. Also because there's a high probability I'll want to edit the automation in future.

Dr. V
 
No, I don't understand that. I guess I'm going to have to get into FLS and use it for tracking and mixing. I've been wanting to do that for a while, so that I have an alternate to Audition.
 
Is that the Adobe one?

FL is pretty friendly. It's certainly very good for beginners. The only irritating thing is, all it's native plugins are either 'fruity this' or 'fruity that'.

Dr. V
 
not know your program either, but it sounds like the "evelope" is hidden. I'd think there would be a way to delete your automation envelopes. Copy and paste a clip to another track and see if it tags the envelopes with it, or if you have the option of what gets copied.
 
By literally removing all control points from the automation line and zeroing what was left, was I able to halt the effect.

It's solved, but not in the way I would have expected. It might be a bug in the program.

Dr. V
 
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