How to record effect motion? Automation in Ableton.
When you're tweaking the knobs on a synthesizer and find an interesting effect... You want to record it. But how?
In this video, I'll talk about how to record automation with a mouse, and how a MIDI keyboard can help. How to tweak the knobs of multiple parameters at once? I'll also talk a little about modulation mode and what it offers.
0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - How did you record movement in effects before?
0:49 - A musical fragment for experimentation
0:59 - How do you enter automation mode?
01:50 - How do you set up automation?
02:48 - How do you set up other types of automation lines?
03:57 - How do you record automation with a mouse?
05:00 - How do you record with a MIDI keyboard?
05:36 - How do you delete and restore automation?
06:05 - How do you copy automation?
06:32 - How do you add an automation lane to another parameter?
06:58 - The synthesizer parameter we'll be automating.
07:56 - How to draw automation/modulation?
09:13 - What's the trick to modulation?
09:31 - Conclusion