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With Show Automation selected, the current automation mode is visible. To select any mode, click on the Automation

Mode window and select from the list. The following describes the automation modes.

Auto: Off

When Auto: Off is selected in the Automation Mode window, all automation for the current parameter and for all related

parameters are turned off.

For instance, if you are currently viewing the Attack envelope for a compressor inserted on an Audio Track, and you select

Auto:Off, all parameter automation for the compressor is turned off. However, automation envelopes for parameters that

do not belong to the compressor can still use a different automation mode.

This is not the same as turning an individual automation envelope on and off, as described in the Turn Automation

On/Off section of this chapter, as that on/off button only affects the currently visible automation envelope.

Read

When you select Read in the Automation Mode window, any existing automation envelopes on the Track for the related

device is read, and these envelopes control their related parameters. Read mode is automatically engaged when you

draw a new automation envelope with the mouse.

Press [J] on the keyboard to switch to Read Automation Mode manually on the selected Tracks.

Touch

When Touch is selected in the Automation Mode window, automation envelopes can be affected by touch-sensitive,

external hardware controllers, so that new automation is written when a hardware control is touched, and automation is

read when the hardware control is not being touched. This allows the user to manipulate the control at any time in order to

write new automation or overwrite existing automation. Studio One resumes reading automation when the control is

released.

Press [K] on the keyboard to switch to Touch mode manually on the selected Tracks.

Touch mode can be used even if your hardware controller does not have touch sensitivity. In this case, automation is

written when you move the hardware controller, and existing automation is read when you are not moving the hardware

controller.

Latch

When Latch is selected in the Automation Mode window, automation is read until a hardware control is manipulated, at

which point automation is written continuously until playback is stopped. When playback is resumed, automation is read

until a hardware control is again touched.

Write

When Write is selected in the Automation Mode window, automation is continuously written based on the current position

of external hardware controllers. Existing automation is not read at any point and is instead overwritten with the new

automation.

Instrument Part Automation

In a feature unique to Studio One, automation envelopes for any given virtual instrument can written and accessed directly

within Instrument Parts, just like musical data parameters such as velocity and pitch bend. Part automation is integrated

into Instrument Parts, so that no matter where an Instrument Part is moved, or how it is edited, the automation stays in

place. In this way, virtual instrument automation can be kept where it belongs with the Instrument Parts in your Song.

Thus, Instrument Part automation is functionally similar to the Track automation system but is dedicated to Instrument

Parts and the virtual instruments they control, offering additional flexibility.

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