Automation - Posted on 2017-03-13 by Corrine Selden

Here are a few highlights from what I learned about automation in Chapter 17:

• Ruper Neve gave us the NECAM--the first console to have moving fader automation. 
• Read mode in Pro Tools is an automation mode that means nothing is written, but any previous passes will be played in real time. 
• Flying Faders is a type of console automation system that was invented by Martinsound and remains popular today. 
• Latch mode in Pro Tools is an automation mode that means once a pass is written, the parameter maintains its cureent position until the write pass is ended. 
• Send levels in Pro Tools can be automated. 
• Prior to automation, on-the-fly changes to session parameters were made by multiple people changing parameters in real time as a session was being mixed down. 
• Touch mode in Pro Tools is an automation mode that means the parameter being automated returns to its previous position once it has been written. 
• Write mode in Pro Tools is an automation mode that starts writing automation once the space bar is pressed and continues to write automation until playback is stopped, at which time this mode automatically switches to latch mode. 
• Automation playlists are the lanes on the edit window in Pro Tools that shows the user a graph representation of automation that has been written. 
• MIDI and instrument tracks in Pro Tools can be automated.