It is pretty clear that an important part of the nowadays music is related with MIDI. So, lesson 16 is key to do our job and in th eothe rhand automation (chapter 17) is the key for musicality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYoHa3GdtCg
http://ciufo.org/classes/482_sp13/media/PT_automation.pdf
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb10/articles/pt_0210.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=19179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKt2hC8jNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NToqzCXClgs